Our War

Here is a list of posts I think you'll like: ‘Oh this pen cannot describe my feelings’ : A mother laments that her only son has gone ...

Observations, fall 2014, mostly while walking down Broadway, across Central Park and along the Hudson: Missed Jay-Z, sor-ry, No music...

Animal Dress The night before she went back to college, she went through my sweater drawer, so when she left           she was ...

Sharon-Olds, winner of the 2014 Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize , is known for her poems about her inner life, her sexuality, the fema...

Sharon Olds is this year’s winner of the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry. She will receive the award and read her poems on...

First, let me thank you for reading my series of posts on my family’s letters from World War II and four years beyond. These letters deal m...

Shortly after the death of their 5-year-old daughter Bonnie , my parents left New England for Florida, seeking a new start in a new place. ...