Mansion of Memory

by Helen Losse

40 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2012

About the author

Helen Losse is the author of several collections of poetry, Every Tender Reed (Main Street Rag, May 2016), Facing a Lonely West (MSR, 2014), Mansion of Memory (Rank Stranger Press, 2013), Seriously Dangerous (MSR, 2011), Better With Friends (RSP, 2009), Paper Snowflakes (Southern Hum Publishing, 2006, now OOP), “Gathering the Broken Pieces (FootHills Publishing, 2004 ), and Kaleidoscope World, an online collaboration with French artist Miki DeGoodaboom.
http://www.mikidegoodaboom.com/art-bo... Her poems have been anthologized in Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, and The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VII: North Carolina.

A former English teacher, Losse was educated at Missouri Southern State University (BSE, 1969) in Joplin, MO, where she majored in secondary education and English and Wake Forest University (MALS, 2000), where she studied African American history and religion and creative writing (poetry and fiction). Her thesis, Making All things New: The Redemptive Value of Unmerited Suffering In the Life and Works of Martin Luther King Jr., is available in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University. She is a member of Winston-Salem Writers, Women Writers of the Triad, the North Carolina Poetry Society, and the North Carolina Writers Conference. She is a Roman Catholic Christian, an avid reader, a NASCAR fan, a rail fan, a reasonable cook (when she sets her mind to it), an excellent cross-stitch artist, and a painter (enhancer) of angels using finger nail polish. An INFJ and the mother of two grown sons, she lives in Winston-Salem, NC with her husband Bill.

Helen Losse is the former Poetry Editor for The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature and now its Poetry Editor Emeritus and an Associate Poetry Editor for Kentucky Review.