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Telling about life the way it really is.
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Marilyn Haight's multi-faceted career includes positions as corporate manager and director; manaagement trainer; organization development consultant; behavioral-science researcher; entrepreneur; business writer, adult educator...and now, poet.
Marilyn began writing poetry in the fifth grade, but life and work steered her down a different path, and she secretly returned to poetry whenever she could. Since 2005, she has studied with Master Poet James Masao Mitsui through Arizona State University's Creative Writing program in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. In September, 2011, she published her first collection of poetry, "No One Ever Told Me: Poems for People Over Fifty." More recently, five of her poems were included in an anthology edited by Mitsui, Measuring Twine: Poetry With Strings Attached.
In another area of interest, diversity, her book, Greeting Card Verses for Nontraditional Situations & Relationships, acknowledges people who are often treated as though they are on the periphery of society with a collection of short messages, ideal for blank cards and personal notes, that bridge differences in age; race; personality style; politics; religion; sexual orientation; social context; and more.
She has also authored three business books: "Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Boss?" (management/career); "Most Trusted Leader" (leadership); and "The Instruction Writer's Guide: How to Explain How to Do Anything" (education/training/technical writing).
Educational accomplishments include earning a BS in Business Administration at Thomas Edison College in Trenton, NJ; an MS in Organization Development at American University and NTL in Washington, D.C.; and an MA in Human Development at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, CA.
Marilyn lives in Peoria, Arizona, with her husband, Arnold, a retired high-school English teacher; and Cameo, their Italian Greyhound, who decides when it's time to move away from the keyboard, turn off the computer, and play catch.
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Released October 2011:
No One Ever Told Me: Poems for People Over Fifty
ISBN: 9780980039047
Marilyn Haight’s free-verse poetry collection lays bare the unspoken thoughts and emotions we experience as we grow older. While some of her poems are humorous, all deal with serious subjects, such as living in an aging body; dealing with ongoing loss; and looking toward a future that’s shorter than the past. These poems can make you laugh, or give you permission to cry about things that change our later lives in ways that make us feel happy and sad, connected and lonely, complete and unfinished--conflicting emotions that reside in our being, whether or not we want them. Her use of everyday language is deceiving in that the whole of each poem is greater than the sum of its parts, guiding you to an unexpected place.
Review:
"Time to read poetry that William Carlos Williams would have said was for the people on back streets & country roads, in urban high rises & gated communities. Here are poems that deal with the issues that face us all, whether we reside in Sun City, Paterson, Mankato, Temecula, or Meridian. These poems, their front doors and windows left open like Edward Hopper paintings, reveal elements of the human condition, regardless of our age, regardless of how we pay the bills, regardless of how we spend our weekends, regardless of whether we believe in politics or religion. You know the people who live in these exceptional poems by Marilyn Haight."
---James Masao Mitsui. The Emeritus College, Arizona State University
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MarilynHaight.com
Business background.
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BigBadBoss.com
Tips for dealing effectively with bad bosses.
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