Mary Weems

Mary E. Weems is a Cleveland-area poet, playwright, and scholar who has served as Poet Laureate of Cleveland Heights. She has written twelve books and five chapbooks, according to a 2014 Crisis Chronicles description. Her full collections An Unmistakable Shade of Red, and the Obama Chronicles and For(e)closure were both Ohioana Book award finalists. She appeared in Crisis Chronicles Press's Oct Tongue -1 (2014) and in its online litmag with recorded readings.