I work at the West New York Public Library at the Children's Department. I have an African Grey parrot named Sweety and a Himalayan cat named Ginabelle. My hobbies are crafting, composing poetry, movies, dining, chatting on ICQ and Yahoo Clubs. I am the founder of two Yahoo Clubs....the Cyberpoet's Niche and the Crafter's Delight. I have been writing poetry since grammer school. I have always had a love of literature and when I was a kid I was always hanging out at the library. I enjoy writing love poems, but I also write many abstract poems on many subjects. In high school I took a course in Poetry Writing. It was this course that changed my writing skills. My favorite color is blue and all shades of blue. I have my own website at Mary's Cyberspear [URL: http://www.angelfire.com/nj/sweetyparrot/index.html].

Mary has recently won the following awards for her verse in the Yahoo! IRCFlirt Chat Club Love Poetry contest: Poem of Merit for "Love Is A Rose," 3rd Place for Best Fit of Title for "Unbinding Love," Mention for Best Fit of Title OverAll, 3rd Place for Content for "I Saw Beauty," Mention for Content OverAll, 3rd Place for Style OverAll, Mention for Originality OverAll, 2nd Place for Judges' Guideline for "Love Is A Rose," and 1st Place for Judges' Guideline OverAll

OverAll Awards for poet are displayed here, awards specific to a poem are displayed with the work. An _* in the listing of Works Presented below indicates an award.