Mary Barnet was nominated for a Nobel Prize for her first book, The New American/Selected Poems. She was the Featured Writer in a special edition of Poet magazine. Her poetry has appeared in Crossroads, Gusto, New Worlds Unlimited, The New Jersey Poetry Society Anthology, Funky Dog Publishing, 
Recursive Angel, The Greenwich Village Gazette, The Poem Factory, Numbat, The Pittsburgh Review, and elsewhere. Mary has read in Judson Church and Grace Church, The Baggot Inn and the Figaro Cafe, all in Greenwich Village, and the Avanti Gallery in Manhattan, as well as with the Saturday Afternoon Poets" at libraries in New Jersey. She read at and directed a Seminar at a New Jersey Poetry Society Convention.
She is founder and chief editor of PoetryMagazine.com and produces poetry films with Richard E. Schiff.
Mary's work has been reviewed by Adam Donaldson Powell who has stated that many of these poems are carefully tailored pearls that could only have been written by a mature artist." Janet Brennan calls her work intelligent and stunning poetry". She comments that her poetry weaves her own images of her beautiful homeland into her poetry as only a lover of life can do" and says her work conveys the values that our country was founded upon". Grace Cavalieri has said she is a light to poets and the world..."
Dr. Krishna Srinivas from International Poets Says of her work that there is an underlying honesty and integrity of language, of emotion, of form in her poetry. She has a natural feel for language. Her expression is lucid, facile and spontaneous." Prof. Syed Ameeruudin says her craftsmanship is perfect and her language is simple, direct, lucid and lilting...with her facile, magical, eloquent and vibrating verses.
Always the free agent, Mary has never aligned herself with movements or groups, preferring to remain as uninfluenced by anything more as she is her own vision, and her muse as well as her own independently arrived at very positive philosophy.
She is the wife of artist, social activist & film-maker Richard E. Schiff. He has work in the Whitney Collection and The Museum of Fine Arts, Jerusalem, as well as many prominent collections around the world. He contributed to, and appears in, the Academy Award winning documentary Freeheld." Mary is the daughter of artist Mary Sinclair and painter Will Barnet. She resides in a renovated barn, built in 1836, in New Jersey with her husband.
Mary can be found at her Poetry Magazine website at http://www.poetrymagazine.com