about Sunset Cue

“These poems insist that we see–not just a bird, or a child, or a mother–but what has been endured…. Like a gift, Macri offers that role to the reader, holding out a lens through which there is so  much to see both on and beneath the surface. These deeply rewarding poems are lavish and expansive in vision, emotion and depth.” – Carolyn Guinzio

about Underwater Panther

“[Macri’s] poems dig deep into place, into history, into the competing cultures and political and economic forces that give shape to the places we inhabit. Her place is Southwestern Illinois, with towns whose names recall the ancient past—Thebes, Sparta, Cairo—and whose history is not immune from the darker forces at work beneath American life…. All of this lies buried beneath the consciousness of the inhabitants of rural Illinois, just as the deep history of the places we all inhabit lies buried beneath our feet, rarely evoked.” – N.S. Boone, Southern Humanities Review

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