Dr. Mary E. Weems

DR. MARY E. WEEMS

AUTHOR | POET | PLAYWRIGHT | ACTIVIST | EDUCATOR

Winner of the 2015 Cleveland Arts Prize Emerging Artist Award for Literature

Celebrating the Lives of Black Women

A play by Dr. Mary Weems, conceived by Dr. Elaine Richardson. Characters: Etta James, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson, Billie Holiday, Zora Neal Hurston, Josephine Baker, Nina Simone, Phyllis Hyman, June Jordan, Queen Latifah and Michelle Obama.

Dr. Mary Weems exhibits her best writing through monologic and poetic forms in this intriguing collection of short dramatic works about African American experiences.

Johnny Saldana, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University

MY BOOKS

Public Education and the

Imagination-Intellect: I Speak from the Wound in My Mouth

This text argues for re-thinking the thinking process and for urban education reform.

Writings of Healing and Resistance

A multi-authored, interdisciplinary focused on the importance of empathy in developing action-based social consciousness.

Working Hard for the Money

A collection of stories, poems and photos that involve community work or lived experience with social challenge. Contributors include Paul Allen, Mary E. Weems, Larry Smith, A.D. Winans, Victoria Rivas, and more.

White

An anthology of energetic poems, which seek to provide a repartee with the difficult urban world of a gentle warrior.

Cleveland Poetry Scenes

An anthology of 40 key Cleveland poets from 1945 through the present. Over 300 pages including bios and photographs of the people and places from the times.

An Unmistakable Shade of Red and the

Obama Chronicles: Poems by Mary E. Weems

A collection of poems that both challenges and embraces America in all its turbulence and beauty.

Blackeyed Plays and Monologues

A collection of plays and monologues that positions race at the center of the experiences of each character.

Public Education and the

Imagination-Intellect: I Speak from the Wound in My Mouth

This text argues for re-thinking the thinking process and for urban education reform.

Writings of Healing and Resistance

A multi-authored, interdisciplinary focused on the importance of empathy in developing action-based social consciousness.

Working Hard for the Money

A collection of stories, poems and photos that involve community work or lived experience with social challenge. Contributors include Paul Allen, Mary E. Weems, Larry Smith, A.D. Winans, Victoria Rivas, and more.

White

An anthology of energetic poems, which seek to provide a repartee with the difficult urban world of a gentle warrior.

Cleveland Poetry Scenes

An anthology of 40 key Cleveland poets from 1945 through the present. Over 300 pages including bios and photographs of the people and places from the times.

An Unmistakable Shade of Red and the

Obama Chronicles: Poems by Mary E. Weems

A collection of poems that both challenges and embraces America in all its turbulence and beauty.

Blackeyed Plays and Monologues

A collection of plays and monologues that positions race at the center of the experiences of each character.

White

An anthology of energetic poems, which seek to provide a repartee with the difficult urban world of a gentle warrior.