Click Here to Read: A Black Angel With a Pin in His Hand: A story of eternal life and sewing, by the Yiddish master by Abraham Sutkever on the Table twebsite on July 15, 2021.
Untitled Etching 1 (First Version) by Barnett Newman, 1968, etching, private collection. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: My New Joy of Yiddish: How a language that once made me feel left out now makes me feel like a part of something bigger
by Amy Schreiberman Walter on the Tablet website on July 14, 2021.
New Jewish market on the East Side, New York Image: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. 
Susan Shaw Sailer
Good morning, everyone. It’s hard to believe it’s June already, really “bustin’ out all over” after what, for many of us, has been our long winter’s lockdown. I hope you used all your time indoors to read more of everything and to write as much as you could.
Our poet today is someone whose work I’ve known and admired for some time, but I was especially struck by the strength of her latest collection, The Distance Beyond Sight (Main Street Rag, 2020). One of the poems in it, “The Emigrant,” is included for you today.
Having grown up in Tacoma, Washington, Susan Shaw Sailer now resides in Morgantown, West Virginia, where she has lived for the past 30 years. At the age of 48 she completed a Ph.D. at the University of Washington and in 1989 moved to teach in the English Department of West Virginia University. After retirement she went back to graduate school for an MFA in Poetry at New England College and until last year continued teaching, this time in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at WVU. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: June 7, 2021
