Creator Bio
Myra Sklarew
b. 1934
Myra Sklarew was born in Baltimore. She is an author of nonfiction, poetry, and fiction, and is professor emerita of literature at American University and former president of Yaddo artists’ community. Sklarew is the recipient of the National Jewish Book Council Award in Poetry.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Lithuania
…I remember a woman
who sat on the pot where the apples cooked in the cold
basement, her face black from smoke. And here, near this brick
building with a red tile roof, is one of our family, Mausha
V…
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Head of the Year
World, they say it is your birthday,
a thousand years for each day of genesis
and we are using you up. But they have promised
that the next one will be better.
Oh End of Days, with your new earth
a…