POETRY MONDAY: March 7, 2015
Walter Hess
We’re proud to introduce Walter Hess, whose strong personal history is the source of much of his poetry – and what makes it so compelling.
He was born in Germany in 1931. Those two facts alone suggest what was to come, and what didn’t. Subsequent to Kristall Nacht and his father’s relatively brief incarceration in Dachau, his family managed to emigrate
in 1939, first to Ecuador and then, in 1940, to the U.S., where they settled in upper Manhattan’s Washington Heights. He was educated entirely in New York City public schools, receiving a B.A. in history from CCNY in 1952 and returning years later, to study for and receive an M.A. from their graduate writing program. Continue reading Postry Monday: Walter Hess
Click Here to Read: The New York Times’ first article about Hitler’s rise is absolutely stunning updated by Zack Beauchamp on the Vox website on March 3, 2016.
Click Here to Read: New Popular Idol Rises in Bavaria by Cyril Brown in The New York Times on Novmber 11, 1922.
Adolf Hitler, circa 1922.(Imagno/Getty Images)
