Julie Ann Otis' poetry rings with the crazy wisdom, wild freedom, and Buddhist soul of the old beat poets.  Her gaze is aimed at the sorrows and joys of this world, and in her detailing of the present moment she reveals the shimmer of transcendence which resides beneath the surface of the mundane.
 

- Alexander Weinstein, Director

Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing

 

"...evocative, probing, sweet, and crystalline."

- John Koch, Artist and former Critic and Editor, Boston Phoenix and Boston Globe

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"I've been an editor on various magazines throughout the last five years, and more often than not, the submissions are filled with melancholy and a heavy dose of psychic pain. Julie's work, however, is light in the best sense of the word. It's concerned with the levity of simply being, and so, is celebration of being alive. That's rare in poetry - American poetry at least - and personally, I want to see more work like hers in the world. It could only do us some good."
 

- Keith Leonard, former Poetry Editor, Indiana Review