Click Here to Read: The Last Letter from Mother to Son by Ekaterina Savelyevna Grossman translated by Iliashenko Olga on the World War Russia website on November 7, 2020.
Birkenau, Poland, Jewish mothers and their children walking to the gas chambers, 05/1944. Photographs documenting the arrival process of Hungarian Jews from the Tet Ghetto in Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp during the second half of 1944. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Listen to: Di Yunge – A Group of American-Jewish Literary Rebels by Ruth Wisse Programs on Yiddish literature and culture recorded at Montreal’s Jewish Public Library, 1953-2005 on the Yiddish Book Center website on December 08, 1973.
Di Yunge. Seated, left to right: Menakhem Bereisho, Abraham Reisen, Moyshe Leyb Halpern Standing: A. M. Dillon, H. Leivick, Zishe Landau, Reuben Iceland, Isaac Raboy. Image: Author Unknown Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Methodological Commentary on ‘The Muse as Therapist: A New Poetic Paradigm for Psychotherapy’ With special reference to Enactment Theory By Heward Wilkinson. Final Submission for Metanoia Institute/University of Middlesex Doctorate in Psychotherapy by Professional Studies on March 2011. 
PHIL TIMPANE
Good morning, everyone! It seems strange to say “good morning” when I’m writing this after dark, but everything seems strange in what Farhad Manjoo called “a present as nutty as ours” (NY Times, 9/24/20). But poetry, as always, will help us to survive.
Our poet today is an old friend to this column, as he was featured here in one of our earliest years. Now here he is again, looking venerable and bardic, with new poems and details about his life, of the kind I always like to share with readers.
Phil Timpane works with his hands, his business mind and his ever-working philosophical mind. By day he is a building contractor; the rest of his time, he says, he “designs and builds new poems.” This kind of day job is not unusual for serious artists in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. I know two other contractors who are well-published poets, another who is an Equity actor and a third who runs a Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: October 5, 2020
David Herman on the JC website.