1 I count the chimneys high up over the elevator train tracks until all the sweetness is sucked from my sticks of Juicy Fruit. Where are we going? You’ll see, my father says. We arrive at a red brick building. Here are your pajamas, the matron says. Put them on. When I turn […]
Harriet Shenkman
Harriet Shenkman is a Professor Emerita in Education at City University of New York. Her poetry awards include the Women’s National Book Association 2013 Annual Writing Contest in Poetry and the Women Who Write 2013 International Poetry and Short Prose Contest. Her poetry appeared in Union, the Raynes Poetry Competition Anthology, Evening Street Review, Third Wednesday, Jewish Currents, Jewish Magazine, Westchester Review, The Pink Panther, Oyez Review, The Alexandria Quarterly, Comstock Review, The Berru Poetry Series, The Sunlight Press, The Quartet Journal, Persimmon Tree and in two chapbooks, Teetering and The Present Abandoned (Finishing Line Press). She is currently working on a poetry collection entitled Bearing Witness.