The Passing of Poetry Monday’s Editor Irene Willis

Editor’s Note: Irene Willis, author of our Poetry Monday column for many years, died Jan. 3 of natural causes in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She was 96.

She will be greatly missed and leaves us with many fond memories. Irene had been editing her latest book, Before We Had Pockets: Uncollected Poems and Essays, which IP Books plans to publish posthumously. Here is a selection from that book, as her final contribution to Poetry Monday:

Time’s A-Wastin’

All the names I know 
All the ones I’ve met – 
Could any ever serve 
As harbingers of regret?
Or the unblemished sense
of time without end 
before it rushed on without me?

Click Here to Read All Poetry Monday posts on this website,

Click Here to Purchase: And Another Thing: poems by Irene Willis

Click Here to Purchase: Allow Me: New and Selected Poems: 1975 to 2021 by Irene Willis

Click Here to Purchase: Green Dialogue: poems by Irene Willis

Click Here to Purchase: What They Bring: The Poetry of Migration and Immigration edited by Irene Willis and Jim Haba,

Click Here to Purchase: Rehearsal: Poems by Irene Willis

Click Here to Purchase: Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry Edited and With an Introduction by Irene Willis.

New and Coming Soon from IPBooks.net

Click Here to Read about and PreOrder:  Flexibly Freudian: The Collected Works of Jeffrey H. Golland, PhD.
Click Here to Read about and Purchase:  The Analyst’s Anonymity Revisited: Clearing Out the Freudian Closet edited by Neal Spira.
Click Here to Read about and Purchase:  Stories of Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal, Volume 1: On Stage and in Concert edited by Karen Berman, PhD and Gail Humphries, PhD
Click Here to Read about and Purchase:  Stories of Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal, Volume 2: On Screen and in the Gallery edited by Karen Berman, PhD and Gail Humphries PhD
|Click Here to Read about and Purchase:  Getting Past Z: A Memoir of Things to Come by G.F. Gravenson.  
Click Here to Read about and Purchase: Is the Primal Dream Over? An Insider Investigates Janov’s Primal Therapy and Asks What the Psychotherapy Profession Should Learn from It by Colin Feltham.

Trump’s bogus war on cities

Click Here to Read:  Trump’s bogus war on cities: What the federal takeover of Washington, D.C. reveals by Anand Giridharadas on his The Ink substack website on August 12, 2015.

California National Guardsmen deployed in Los Angeles, identifications can be observed in the photo (such as riot shield), insignia and the original post’s description.  Image:  U.S. Northern Command.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.