in memoriam D.S. The snowdrops round the treetrunk in her yard the last day of the first month of the year eye-white, drooped as if ashamed to flourish so relentlessly their unrefusable profusion caught in my throat as this poem did, for months imitating the secrets of […]
Jenny Isaacs
Jenny Isaacs graduated long ago from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. in poetry. She ended up marrying the first person she spoke to there. While raising three daughters she founded & directed several nonprofits, including a Montessori school and an immigrant rights organization. Now retired, she lives with her husband on a creek off the Chesapeake Bay, just down the street from her parents. Her poems have appeared in various journals including Painted Bride Quarterly, Mad Poets’ Review, and US 1 Worksheets, and online in Pedestal and Up the Staircase Quarterly.