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HEY, I’M ALIVE published this poem written before my husband came out of the nursing home
February 22, 2021

HEY, I’M ALIVE published this poem written before my husband came out of the nursing home

February 15, 2021

THE SEATTLE STAR just published my poem, STEEPED IN SEPIA

This poem arose from the vast amount of stuff I had to throw away in order to move to my new home and still I was choked with boxes. Click on the pink title. Click here for Steeped in Sepia

February 1, 2021

Sweet Lit posted my poem, WEDDING ALBUM, 1967

Funny thing happened. The editor printed an edited version of my poem which I hadn’t noticed and read the original instead! I like the oral version better. Special thanks to my sister, Nannette, for letting me rehearse with her. The hesitation, the almost senior moment, was not her fault. šŸ™‚ Aha, I have resolved the […]

January 27, 2021

My poem, WITH YOU, EDEN, AT MY KITCHEN TABLE, was published by Persimmon.

Persimmon, a terrific magazine for, ahem, older women (one of the founders was the late Maxine Kumin, published an issue on the Insurrection of Jan. 6th. My poem, With You, Eden, at my Kitchen Table, was chosen for that issue. If you have the patience to scroll down, you can read it. INSURRECTION – INAUGURATION

My father, HERMAN SHAPIRO, photo taken at least a century ago
January 22, 2021

My father, HERMAN SHAPIRO, photo taken at least a century ago

This was lovingly restored, as best it could be, by my cousin, Irwin. My father must have been in his early twenties then. He came over from Russia in steerage with his mother and five sisters, the only siblings who survived a pogrom. His father had come to the Bronx ten years ahead to save […]

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