Good morning, Everyone,
Happy Post-Labor Day!
I wish I could mandate that you must be vaccinated and masked to read this column, but since I can’t I can only hope that those of you who can will be if you plan to venture outside once again –and especially, inside.
In times like these, one of the best, most soul-healing things we can do is read poetry.
Our poet today is one I have wanted to introduce for some time. Here she is: 
Mihaela Moscaliuc
This lovely poet learned English in school in Romania, from a teacher who lent them books in English such as “Catch-22,” “Lord of the Flies” and “The Catcher in the Rye.”
Amazingly, he also had his students listen to records with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen and Leonard Cohen – just like so many American teenagers.
Mihaela came to the U.S. when she was twenty-four to pursue graduate studies and since then has published a number of successful poetry collections. Among them are Cemetery Ink (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and Father Dirt (Alice James Books, 2010). She was the translator of Liliana Ursu’s Clay and Star (Etruscan Press, 2014) and Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014) and is the editor of Insane Devotion: On the Writings of Gerald Stern (Trinity University Press, 2016). With her husband, the well-known poet Michael Waters, she co- Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: September 6, 2021
