Click Here to Read: ‘I knew nothing’: the Warsaw ghetto boy who found his family at 83. A DNA test has helped Shalom Koray find relatives in the US after escaping the Holocaust in a rucksack at the age of two by Daniel Boffey on the Guardian website on January 27, 2024.
Map of Poland showing Zakopane in the South the location of the Saint Andrew Bobol Orphanage.
Lewis Warsh Photography by Max Warsh
Good morning, everyone — and a happy, hopeful New Year to you. Poetry is truly medicine for the soul, and this is surely a time when our souls can use some healing.
Our poet today, Lewis Warsh, is one whose poems I confess I didn’t know until I went to a reading at The Bookstore in Lenox, Mass., where several of his longtime friends celebrated his work and life.
Lewis Warsh was not only a poet but also an editor, visual artist, educator and author of over thirty volumes of poetry, fiction, and autobiography.
The three poems that follow are from his last book, Elixir (Ugly Duckling Press, 2022).
BLUE MOON
There are some buzzwords you
need to know if you want to get on
in the world, keep up with
current events, for instance, but Continue reading Poetry Monday: January 1, 2024
