Marie Boucher is Assistant Professor & Program Head for English for Academic and Professional Purposes at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

She co-leads the annual International Poetry Week and the monthly International Poetry Gatherings with Rana Issa. She has read her poetry at multiple venues in Monterey Bay, San Francisco, Fresno, and Santa Cruz, CA. Marie has published in the Porter Gulch Review, Monterey Poetry Review, Solo Novo, Poet’s Choice, and has had poems translated from English to Arabic that have appeared in numerous publications.

Marie is the Editor in Chief for Doves Born of Flames: Poems of Peace from Many Lands, a multilingual anthology slated for publication with Lever Press (2025). She is working on her own collection Becoming River (2025). Marie's writing is inspired by the impulse to reweave our stories with the natural world.

 

 

ARTIST STATEMENT

 

My poems revolve around recurring themes of our integral relationship with the natural world and all beings.  If only, we slowed down to remember and witness our uinterconnectedness with all that is.  We can learn a lot from other species: the communication between trees, genetically encoded patterns of migration of butterflies, how to not consume more than one needs, etc.  The lessons from nature inspire my poetry and how we can live in greater harmony with the earth and each other.