​​Part fictive narrative steeped in the historical, part epistolary record, and part songbook of spirituals, Letters to Littles’ Mills gathers a cumulative power as it weaves together seemingly disparate stylistic elements to render another century awash in moral (or immoral) complexity and violence. Dunn has drawn a local habitation in cadences that recreate its people, its customs, and its enduring legacy of grief.    —Michael Waters
In Letters to Littles’ Mills, a trinity of angles casts an indelible spell. Mary Anna Dunn not only allows raw history to breathe again, but also conceptualizes it and re-makes it so that we can see clear through to its frailties and follies. Sentiment, and not sentimentality, abounds. Anyone searching for solid ways to come to terms with America’s haunted past will find this book bracing, rewarding, and strangely beautiful.       
                    -- Douglas Nordfors
​In a work built around real-life words taken from spirituals and the letters of her ancestors, Mary Anna Dunn repositions the languages of a dark time in poems that confront the reader. Dunn’s brilliant sense for sound and rhythm will take you, on every line, through every word, into thought and reflection.                                             --John Most

My poetry has most recently appeared in:
                  Appalachian Journal, Volume 48
                  Reed Magazine, Issue 154
My chapbook Letters to Littles Mills (Finishing Line Press) was released in the spring of 2018.  
I'm working on playlists to accompany my published poems and will add them here as I develop them. 

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​In the Morning, After a Flood                 In the Morning, After a Flood Playlist                                                                                     
​Mourning Undone                                         Mourning Undone Playlist                    
​Never
​Response   

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