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Poems by Alicia Ostriker
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Click here to Read: “Poems Making  Poems: A Program of Poetry and Psychoanalysis,” an article on reprinted from The American Psychoanalyst on the blog: Hear, Hear, Occasional Posts on Poetry and Psychoanalysis

aliciacropweb1.jpgAs promised, we are beginning National Poetry Month with the first of our Monday poetry pages. Today it’s our honor and privilege to offer three poems by world-renowned poet and critic Alicia Ostriker. Twice nominated for the National Book Award and winner of many other prestigious awards, Ostriker is the author of eleven volumes of poetry, the latest of which is No Heaven. Her critical works include, most

Alicia Ostriker 

notably, Writing Like a Woman and Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America. She has also written a number of books on the Bible, most recent of which is For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book.

Alicia Ostriker’s gracious response to our invitation brings us the first publication of a new poem, “To Persephone,” as well as two previously published ones she has personally selected for the interest of our readers.

Irene Willis
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POETRY MONDAY: October 2, 2017
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Hilde Weisert

Happy October, everyone.  Here in the Northeast, it really feels like fall, with chilly mornings and evenings coming all too quickly.  It’s time to curl up by the fire with a good book and nice cup of tea – or to open your computer and scroll through pages like this one.

We have an interesting poet to introduce to you today – one who is not afraid to tackle the difficult subjects, as you will see when you read her poems.

C0-winner of the 2017 Gretchen Warren Award from the New England Poetry Club and winner of the 2016 Tifferet Journal Poetry Award, Hilde Weisert has held fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.  When she lived in New Jersey, she was a Geraldine R. Dodge Poet and edited Teaching for Delight: Ways of Doing Poetry in Schools, published by the Geraldine Dodge Poetry Project.  She now lives in Sandisfield, Massachusetts and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

The Scheme of Things, her full-length poetry collection, was published in 2015 by David Robert Books, with a mysteriously beautiful abstract cover by Jim Haba, whom many of you know as the beloved former director of the Dodge Poetry Festival.  With Dr. Elizabeth Stone, she co-edited an anthology, Animal Doctors, Animal People: Poems, essays and stories on our essential connection, published by the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, 2012.

It’s a pleasure to share with you the three poems below by Hilde Weisert.  “To Ilona, My Stepmother” and “Questions for Our Mothers” appeared in the 2017 anthology Writing Fire: An Anthology Celebrating the Power of Women’s Words, published by Green Fire Press.  “The Certainty of  Others” is from The Scheme of Things.”

                                                                 —Irene Willis
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