Marjorie Thomsen’s poetry collection, “Pretty Things Please” (Turning Point, 2016), gets its title from asking Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project to name all that she cannot since they come up with great names for their beers. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems have been widely published and have received first-place awards from the New England Poetry Club and The University of Iowa School of Social Work. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.