Mary Jo Salter

Mary Jo Salter is the author of nine collections of poetry, most recently Zoom Rooms (2022), and guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2024.  She is Professor Emerita in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and lives in Baltimore.

  • So Glad She Didn’t Live to See It

    What will it be, the thing they say
  • Fogetting Names

    Inevitable, and not
  • Edna St. Vincent, M.F.A.

    Chic and petite, blind to her destiny