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Margy Ohring
Margy Ohring was voted "Best Poet" in the 2005 Preditors & Editors Readers Poll, and Cat-House Sonnets was awarded the coveted Muse Medallion from the Cat Writers' Association in 2006.
Recently retired from running a business for many years, Margy moved to the foothills of the Shenandoah Mountains with her twenty-year-old cat,
Patches. Frail, elderly Patches became Margy's first muse.
A member of the Cat Writers' Association, Margy divides her time between writing award-winning sonnets about her cats and playing with her five grandchildren.
Margy's
cat sonnets have been published in a number of ezines. Her
non-cat sonnets have been published in Releasing Times
Magazine. Often Margy writes sonnets to ease the grief of her
online friends when their cats succumb to age or illness and
soar away to the Rainbow Bridge. Margy Ohring, Cat Sonnet
Writer, can be contacted at
mcatsonnets@erols.com.
Cat
lovers have been delighted with the way Margy's sonnets get
inside the feline mind and with the pictures she draws of the
various antics of our four-footed friends. Comments include:
"How
do you get into their heads like that?!!! Amazing!"
—Sue Benjamin
"That
is what I love about your poems...I can 'see' them..."
—Noreen Folzman
"I
so appreciate your gift of capturing a cat's purrsonality."
—Sue Glashofer
"This had me really chuckling! I can see him doing this." —Linda Gillian
"I got my book of sonnets yesterday, and I'm not exaggerating when I say it's now my most prized possession! I absolutely love it. Thank you, thank you!!! I read a few of the sonnets out loud to my cats. They pretended not to be impressed, but I could tell they were really smiling because they all listened intently, twitching their tails and blinking slowly to show their approval! Thanks so much!" — Tammy Wallsch
Cat-House Sonnets was
entered in the 14th Annual International Self-Published Book
Awards sponsored by Writer's Digest.
Margy Ohring received the following praise: "The simple
fun of the world of cats. I enjoyed the whimsy and lightness
of voice that these poems carried. Even near the end of the
collection as the cats age and the book takes on a darker,
more weary tone, one senses the life of cats well-loved and
well-observed and that carries its own nice telling that
arches over the entirety of the collection. There is a real
tenderness here and the kind of concentrated gaze that an
artist can and should apply to what is being observed and
re-created on the page or on the canvas. Of course, I can't
help but admire that these are all done in formal verse and
that the poet works as conversationally, as naturally in
that form as Frost does." —Judge's comments in response to
the question, What did you like best about this book?