Poetry Meets Music

Write On is happy to continue our collaboration with Midsummer’s Music, Poetry Meets Music. At one concert in each of Midsummer’s series offerings, a poet will read a poem written in response to a piece of music to be performed. Poets were given recordings in advance with no identifying information as to the title, composer, era, etc., and were asked not to look up this information. The result is a poem composed entirely in response to the emotions or memories the music evokes. 

For today’s concert, we are pleased to present poet Maryanne O’Dowd. To order tickets, please visit Midsummer’s Music.

Maryanne O’Dowd began her career in journalism, and her news and feature stories appeared in Chicago-area publications, including the Chicago Tribune, the Suburban Chicago Sun-Times,
the Lerner Newspaper Group, and the Journal-Topics newspapers. She is in the process of completing her first novel. After more than 50 years as a Chicagoan, Maryanne now resides full-time in beautiful Door County, Wisconsin, with her husband, Eamon O’Dowd, and their lovable Goldendoodle, Devin.