Margaret A. Neves

Margaret A. Neves holds a Master of Arts degree from Colorado State University. She has lived and worked in Brazil, where she taught English as a second language and high school literature. Her published translations of novels by various Brazilian authors include works by Jorge Amado, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Edgard Telles Ribeiro, Moacyr Scliar, and others. Now living in Colorado, she enjoys hiking, running, reading and music. 

Blurb on back of my book, Toads, Rocks, and Rhymes: A Cheerful Chapbook:

If you’ve never heard the term chapbook, you’re not alone. You are invited to read this one! I would describe my writing as a “doorway” for readers who might think poetry wouldn’t interest them. Much modern poetry, though it has merit, can be darkly abstract, to the point of discouraging the reader. I hope that these poems will lift your spirits and show you a positive, simple style of writing while avoiding the hackneyed or saccharine. Some are gently humorous, some are formal in style, and all are meant to delight you and make you think.