HEY, I’M ALIVE!
Published this poem written before my husband came out of the nursing home
Thoughts
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
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. 🙂 Aha, I have resolved the […]
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
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 […]