Interview with Ann Bookman
In late September, as Breast Cancer Awareness Month approached, Betty Reed interviewed Ann Bookman, poet, social anthropologist, social justice advocate and policy expert in work/family balance and women’s issues.
Keeping Planes in the Air by Lori Desrosiers
Lori Desrosiers has captured the essence of being a mother in the poem that is also the title of her book “Keeping Planes in the Air.” In this poem her elderly mother’s job was to keep planes in the air through the power of her worried prayers. But after the …
How to Bury a Boy at Sea by Phil Goldstein
Phil Goldstein’s poems in “How to Bury a Boy at Sea” tell the story of a frightened young boy dominated by an older brother who sexually abuses him. Through imagery and honesty Goldstein shares the terror of not knowing if and when he would be attacked. He draws parallels between …