CONCORD, N.H. AP – It’s all there in black and white: a poet’s pain, her suffering, her emotional distress. Turn the page and find secrecy, shock and disappointment. But don’t expect passionate verse. These are lawsuits, not poems.

One accuses poet Anne Marie Macari of secretly plotting to steal a master’s degree program and its faculty and then recreating it at a rival school. In a countersuit, she claims she has been defamed by malicious lies.