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Here is a collection of stories in verse from the viewpoint of an observer and listener interested in delving deeply into experiences, in asking questions, and grateful for her blessed life. Written mostly in narrative free verse, the poems explore moments in time- embracing the people and places encountered over a period of more than twenty years. The people are friends and strangers, and famous artists and writers met in museums and books. The places are those visited and those encountered in ordinary daily activities at home and in nature, all companions along the way.
About the author
Deanna Shapiro is a poet and a painter whose poems have appeared in Poetica, The Aurorean, Tapestries, Penwood Review, Drash: Northwest Mosaic, The Mountain Troubadour, Blueline, The Addison Independent, and ZigZagLitMag among others. She is the winner of the Arthur Wallace Peach Memorial Award for 2009 and the Marion Gleason Memorial Award for 2014 and 2016 from the Poetry Society of Vermont of which she is a member. She is also a member of the Otter Creek Poetry Workshop and the Suncoast Writers Guild. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Shapiro has a degree in English Literature from Hunter College and holds graduate degrees in education and psychology from City College. She taught kindergarten and served as a school psychologist in both New York City and Westchester County school systems. She was a
mediator and interfaith minister in New York State.
Deanna lives in the Champlain Valley of Vermont with her husband, Charlie. She is the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of two granddaughters.
