On-going 

 

Voice Over Internet Podcast​

Celeste Thompson interviewed me for her new podcast (I am the second ever guest!) and you can listen to it on Spotify. I read a few of my poems, blanked on a lot of names (sorry!), and discussed all of the poetry and reading-related things I did during the summer of 2024 (I get exhausted just thinking about it all!). If you want a poetry-heavy summer in 2025, listen and sign up for the same things I did, and plan to do again. Click here to listen!

 

 

Peeled Citrus Prompts

If you are looking for more inspiration than just Sundays on my blog, you can subscribe (it's free!)

to my Substack, Peeled Citrus Prompts. I post a prompt 3 times each week there: Tuesdays, Fridays, 

and Sundays (the Sunday prompts are the same ones as my blog). 

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Subscribe here: https://marychristinedelea.substack.com/

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Ohio Reading Road Trip

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In 2002, two of my many poems about Marietta, Ohio, were published in a wonderful anthology entitled I Have My Own Song for It: Modern Poems of Ohio (edited by Elton Glaser and William Greenway). One of the poems, "Leaving Downtown Marietta, Ohio, 1983" has been included on the Ohio Reading Road Trip web site, along with a poem by Ron McFarland, for a lesson called Contemporary Ohio Poets Extension Activities: The Poetry of Leaving. The page includes a wonderful lesson plan. I encourage anyone who is teaching poetry to check out this resource. Click here to go to the page that discusses my poem. And to read a great essay about why every student in this country should be studying poetry, click here; it will take you to Tony Hoagland's "Twenty Poems That Could Save America." He also has a book by the same name.

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Lesson Plan

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A lesson plan for college students. This lesson includes my poem, "CoCo Chanel in the Stairwell" and Rebecca Brown's "Forgiveness." This was, I believe, one of the first times I appeared on the Internet. It was very exciting!