I’m Marsha Krcmar — a poet and the author of Heart.

My work explores love, longing, memory, and the quiet process of returning to oneself. Through poetry, essays, and visual storytelling, I trace the emotional landscapes that shape who we become.

For many years, the words I wrote were never meant for anyone else to see. They lived quietly in journals, tucked between ordinary days and the small emotional moments that felt too delicate to speak aloud.

My writing tends to circle the same questions again and again — love, longing, memory, and the quiet process of returning to oneself. I’m interested in the emotional landscapes we carry through life, and the way certain moments continue echoing long after they’ve passed.

Heart, my first poetry collection, grew from a decade of those journals. Many of the poems began as private reflections written in my late teens and early twenties — fragments of love, heartbreak, hope, and the slow unfolding of self-understanding.

Over time, those fragments began to form a body of work.

What once felt intensely personal revealed itself to be something shared — the universal language of becoming.

Beyond poetry, I write essays and reflections, often pairing language with imagery — photography, small films, and moments captured from daily life. I’m drawn to the quiet poetry of ordinary things: light through a window, a line scribbled in a notebook, a conversation that lingers long after it ends.

Much of my work begins the same way —

A sentence written quickly in a notebook.
A phrase saved in my phone.
A feeling I don’t yet fully understand.

Later, when the moment is right, those fragments return and ask to be shaped into something more.

At the center of my work is a simple belief: that meaning is rarely found in the grand or extraordinary, but in the small details that quietly shape who we become.

Read Heart