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Betsy Mars
Betsy Mars is a poet, photographer, and an editor at Gyroscope Review. Betsy’s poems are widely available online and in print, in journals such as ONE ART, SWWIM, Sheila-Na-Gig, Autumn Sky, Book of Matches, and the anthology Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Motown Poetry Review (Madville Press). Betsy’s two chapbooks are Alinea, and In the Muddle of the Night, co-authored with Alan Walowitz. Her full-length book, Rue Obscure, is forthcoming from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions in late 2026.
Death Cleaning
To purge or keep, we sort our stacks: the brochures and maps of cities we have been or hoped to visit. In time it all merges, becomes a blur. Souvenirs that no longer spur memories. The objects that held such sacred space in my family home will have no meaning to my children when I’m […]