Hello— start there. Look me over kindly—does it seem that I could bear How are you? Or is my posture more suited to a comment about weather, or dogs? Do you think you know me well enough to ask How are you doing? I will in turn look you over kindly, if I can muster […]
Donna Spruijt-Metz
Donna Spruijt-Metz’s books include To Phrase a Prayer for Peace (2025,Wildhouse Press), General Release from the Beginning of the World, And Scuttle My Balloon (with Flower Conroy), and Wu Wei Eats an Egg (Lucas Hirsch in translation). Her poems appear in Poem-a-day, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She’s an emeritus psychology professor, MacDowell fellow, rabbinical school drop-out, former classical flutist, and briefly, a rock and roll bassist. She gets restless.