Buried Seed - Brossura

Martha O. Adams studied cello from second grade through college, giving rise to the musicality of her writing. A teacher much of her life in schools, at home raising four children, or in churches, her poetry springs from roots in Ohio, Kansas, Illinois and Connecticut. Her tree of poems has flourished long in the North Carolina mountains, bearing winter fruit in the Florida Keys. She has two other collections of poems: "What Your Heart Needs to Know," 2008, and "Peeling the Rind," 2000, both published by House of Myrrth. Her Readers' Theater Play poem, "She Rises Through the Sickle Moon," has been performed from New England states to Florida. Adams' poems have been published in various magazines and four anthologies: "Women's Spaces, Women's Places;" Stone Ivy Press, 2011; "The Liberal Media Made Me Do It!" Nine Toes/Lummox Press, 2014; "Crossing Lines Anthology," Main St. Rag, 2015; and "The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. VII:NC;" Texas Review Press, 2015. Grandmother of ten and an avid gardener, Martha lives with her husband Robert, in Hendersonville, North Carolina.