Miriam Kotzin
Miriam Kotzin is a professor of English at Drexel University and edits Per Contra. She writes poetry and short short stories, and her books include Reclaiming the Dead (New American Press, 2009), Weights & Measures (Star Cloud Press, 2010) and Just Desserts: Short Stories (Star Cloud Press, 2010). She holds a Ph. D. from NYU.
Reading List
Emily
Emily 1. from the introduction to Emily Dickinson’s Letters by Mabel Loomis Todd The lovers eager (a passing mood), she kept no journal. Far-away in her garden, dark finger-tips hold a shadow. 2 from the introduction to Emily Dickinson’s Letters …
Goldenrod
Well, then, consider the proud goldenrod. It lords the pasture and roadways while all summer long it busies itself with hoarding the heat and the sunlight. It holds them up as an offering, all the gathered summer gold as if …