Mary E. Weems

         Mary E. Weems is an accomplished poet, playwright, author, editor, performer, motivational speaker, and imagination-intellect theorist. Weems has been widely published

         in journals, anthologies, and several books including Public Education and the Imagination-Intellect: I Speak from the Wound in My Mouth (Lang, 2003),

         developed from her dissertation which argues for imagination-intellectual development as the primary goal of public education. She won the Wick Chapbook Award for her

         collection White in 1996, and in 1997 her play Another Way to Dance won the Chilcote award for The Most Innovative Play by an Ohio Playwright. Her most recent

         chapbook Tampon Class (Pavement Saw Press, 2005) is in its second printing.  In 2008 she co-edited Cleveland Poetry Scenes: A Panorama and Anthology

         (Bottom Dog Press). Mary Weems currently teaches in the English and Education departments at John Carroll University, and works as a language-artist-scholar in k-12

         classrooms, university settings and other venues through her business Bringing Words to Life.