Notes from the Column of Memory, by Wendy Drexler
Congratulations to Wendy whose poem "Apology to My Ovaries" was featured on SWWIM on September 12, 2022.
Congratulations to Wendy whose poem "This Fierce Elation" was featured on Autumn Sky Poetry Daily on May 9, 2022.
Congratulations to Wendy whose sonnet crown, "Burial of a Woman with the Blackened Shells of 86 Tortoises," was featured on Verse Daily on March 26, 2022. The poem will appear in Notes from the Column of Memory, forthcoming from Terrapin in 2022.
Praise for Notes from The Column of Memory
From the first poem “Red-Eared Slider” through to the final “All the Hours the Night Has Left,” Drexler weaves a tapestry of love, loss, grief, and acceptance—an elaborate kaddish in which she celebrates and sanctifies the names of the things, events, and persons she remembers. Notes from the Column of Memory is a much needed collection that will underscore for every reader the need to document, accept, and sing the hardships, the sorrows, and joys we are all born to—bound to. This is one of the most moving offerings of poetry I have read in a long time. And, for me, the experience of reading it is captured in one of the volumes many memorable lines: it is . . . a hustle of tart and sweet so sharp it hurt.
—Regie Gibson
Congratulations to Wendy whose poem "This Fierce Elation" was featured on Autumn Sky Poetry Daily on May 9, 2022.
Congratulations to Wendy whose sonnet crown, "Burial of a Woman with the Blackened Shells of 86 Tortoises," was featured on Verse Daily on March 26, 2022. The poem will appear in Notes from the Column of Memory, forthcoming from Terrapin in 2022.
Praise for Notes from The Column of Memory
From the first poem “Red-Eared Slider” through to the final “All the Hours the Night Has Left,” Drexler weaves a tapestry of love, loss, grief, and acceptance—an elaborate kaddish in which she celebrates and sanctifies the names of the things, events, and persons she remembers. Notes from the Column of Memory is a much needed collection that will underscore for every reader the need to document, accept, and sing the hardships, the sorrows, and joys we are all born to—bound to. This is one of the most moving offerings of poetry I have read in a long time. And, for me, the experience of reading it is captured in one of the volumes many memorable lines: it is . . . a hustle of tart and sweet so sharp it hurt.
—Regie Gibson
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Wendy Drexler is the recipient of a 2022 artist fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is the author of two earlier collections, most recently Before There Was Before (Iris Press, 2017). Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, The Threepenny Review, and Valparaiso Poetry Review, among other journals. Her work has been featured on Verse Daily and WBUR, and in numerous anthologies. She has been the Poet-in-Residence at New Mission High School in Hyde Park, Massachusetts, since 2018, and is programming co-chair for the New England Poetry Club. She lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.
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