Poetry. Ann Stanford's poems have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Atlantic Monthly, and the New Yorker, and she saw eight collections of them acclaimed in her lifetime. DREAMING THE GARDEN completes an impressive body of work that earned its author a Shelley Memorial Award. Few poets today better exemplify the criteria of 'wholeness, harmony, and radiance' that the great philospher said all art should possess. Hers is an intimate but luminious vitality -- James Cushing.