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These poems are an exploration of the human condition through the lens of a mental health therapist. They are about reclaiming and celebrating oneself and one's story in a time of turmoil. The collection walks the reader through the quest to meet ourselves and uncover resilience. Along the way we grapple with accepting the paradoxes of being human and meet allies that accompany us on the journey.  

Maureen has been published in many places, including Time Magazine and book anthologies. She is a Sue Boynton Poetry Walk Award winner.  She is also the author of A Guide Back to You, a workbook for exploring who you are and staying true to yourself.

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"Here in The Phoenix Requires Ashes, Maureen Kane reaches the soul of that which cannot be easily named and puts words to the longing for connection with our secret truths. Yes, in these pages, "deep calls to deep." Read with an open heart and you will find your own shadow, your own grief, your own hope, and ultimately, your own resilience. Every poem is a beautiful acknowledgement of what it means to be a human whose full complexity deserves to be mined." 
 -Cami Ostman author of Second Wind: One Woman's Midlife Quest to Run Seven Marathons on Seven Continents

“If I had to use one word to describe Maureen Kane’s fine poetry, it would be “elemental.” Kane has the ability to boil down what’s important in life to its essence, to boil the bones and use the elixir as if reading the tea leaves of the soul. Often she uses the elements in a space beyond metaphor. A fox here. A leaf there. Even tin foil crinkles open to reveal the heart. Her poetry will haunt your dreams. You have been warned.”
 -Bliss Goldstein, MLA. Author of God is in the Detours: Lessons Learned by Going Off My Mother’s Map, Founding editor of Tangents magazine, Stanford University. Winner 2022 Sue C Boynton Poetry Award.

"I'm reading, for the second time, a perfect book of poetry. The Phoenix Requires Ashes by Maureen Sandra Kane. She is deeply talented, and her poetry is filled with sharp insights and moving emotion. The first piece in the book, Let Yourself Be Weary, brought tears of recognition to my eyes. Each poem is a gem in its own way.  Even a simple apple held in Kane's hand inspires rumination on all the lives that piece of fruit and it's growth have touched in its travels to a pie pan in her kitchen."
 -Sandra Parshall Author of Poisoned Ground, The Heat of The Mon, Broken Places, Under the Dog Star, and Disturbing the Dead.

"Maureen’s ability to touch the depth of the inner journey never ceases to amaze me.  Her  poems allow me to touch the experience of healing, in all its stages and complexities, with gentle grace. I am frequently struck by her ability to render the physicality of healing work with both truth and tenderness."
 -Mendy McLean-Stone MEd, MA, BCN – Therapist, MMS Counseling

“Maureen Sandra Kane makes exquisite use of the images of her Pacific Northwest milieu.  Her work can be as earthy as Pablo Neruda’s, or as ethereal as Richard Bach’s. The process of realizing who one is, as laid out in the pages of this volume, becomes more appealing and less painful with this guidebook.  You will meditate on Kane’s words long after you finish reading them.”
 -Sean Dwyer author of A Quest for Tears: Surviving Traumatic Brain Injury

"The Phoenix Requires Ashes: Poems for the Journey by Maureen Sandra Kane (Gray Matter Press, 2022). It seems to me that the world can be simultaneously lovely and lacking. When I want to connect with a kindred spirit about this, I turn the pages of The Phoenix Requires Ashes: Poems for the Journey and ponder the poetry of Maureen Sandra Kane. The blessings of the ordinary — or finding poetry in the prosaic — are key to this collection of forty-seven poems. This collection has the perfect title, The Phoenix Requires Ashes, as each poem shows that within a mundane moment waits the rebirth of strength and perseverance in resurging beauty — we just need another way of seeing to unlock this mystery, and these poems provide those visionary keys. Kane’s poems seem to say that the low points can be mere springboards to the highest."
 -Mary Dezember  Author of Still Howling