POETRY MONDAY: September 7, 2015
Barbara Crooker
Welcome back from vacation, everyone, if you were lucky enough to have one – and here’s wishing you a happy Labor Day weekend, with perhaps some thought of the history behind the day.
Our first poet of the season is one whose work I’ve long admired but whom I met in person only recently, when I had the pleasure of reading with her and another fine poet, January Gill O’Neill, on Cape Cod in June. Continue reading Poetry Monday: Barbara Crooker
Click Here to Read: Annie Freud interview: ‘Why I’ve finally embraced the family name’ The poet talks about grand bohemian circles, being a late starter and saying no to a nude to be painted by her father Lucian Freud Interview by Susanna Rustin in the Guardian on June 27, 2015.
Annie Freud, pictured at home near Cattistock, Dorset. Photograph: Jim Wileman for the Guardian
Click Here to Read: The Gloom and Redemption of Yiddish Poet Yisroel Shtern by Zackary Sholem Berger on the Jewish Daily Forward Website. June 16, 2015
Click Here to Read: Witnessing the death of Yiddish language and culture: Holes in the Doorposts by Arnold Richards. Continue reading The Gloom and Redemption of Yiddish Poet Yisroel Shtern
