“Like I said, I was extremely lucky.”

“In His Words“
Based on an interview with my great-great uncle, Sol Steingart.
Published in Ink Lit Mag No. 11.
“My professor, the scholar, is reading aloud,
reciting that stanza she wrote long ago
in his silvery sotto voce.”

“Meaning“
Awarded the Alpha of Iowa Phi Beta Kappa chapter’s 2016 “Love of Learning Poetry Prize“.
“And if want of you can vanish so completely,
What else of you can vanish so completely?”

“Enigma“
Published in Tell Magazine, an online feminist creative journal.
Reading performed on the podcast A OK, in Episode 28: Let’s Smash Normal.