Anne Marie Macari is a poet & essayist living and working in New York.
Her new book, AMERIGUN, is available March 24, 2026.
In Amerigun, a stunning collection of loss and rediscovery, poet Anne Marie Macari revisits her brother Edward’s long-ago death by a self-inflicted gunshot. Interweaving and disentangling her own memories and those of her family, and by reconstructing a legal and medical paper trail, Macari begins a dialogue with the dead, bringing her brother’s lost voice back to her after years of sealing herself off from him. Embedded in her story is the devastation of a culture that elevates guns and violence over the sacredness of human life. Yet, out of that devastation, Macari writes a kind of love story, renewing her connection with her brother, as well with other departed friends and family. By revisiting grief, she uncovers a deeply-felt gratitude for the world around her—and indeed for her own life.
““Rarely can one say about a book of poems that it begins like a gripping page-turner. Rarely can memory slam us like a tidal wave in words as vivid as Anne Marie Macari’s endlessly compelling elegy for her brother and poetic condemnation of what she calls Amerigun–this country’s ‘murder machine.’”
–Ilya Kaminsky
“Anne Marie’s masterpiece poetic sequence Amerigun is stunning in every way.”
–Alicia Ostriker on AMERIGUN
EVENTS
Coming Soon: Amerigun
In Amerigun, a stunning collection of loss and rediscovery, poet Anne Marie Macari revisits her brother Edward’s long-ago death by a self-inflicted gunshot.
Experience
Engage with Anne Marie reading from a sampling of her extraordinary work. Her voice evokes the singularity of her creative vision and artistry.
AWP 2008
Anne Marie reads for The Cortland Review at AWP in 2008.
Academy of American Poets
Listen to Macari read “Everglades".”
Heaven Beneath Book Trailer
Macari reads an excerpt from HEAVEN BENEATH.