New and On View: Mudlark Poster No. 62 (2006)
Five Poems by Liz Dolan
Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Reformer, Exhorts Her Sisters
Marie Curie Illuminates her Research for Us
Marie Curie Speaks to Pierre
Sister Dorothy Stang, 72, Reflects on her Assassination
The Woman Who Held Her Ground
Liz Dolan is a wife, mother, grandmother, retired English teacher; she is
most proud of the alternative school she ran in the Bronx. She has eight
grandchildren who live on the next block. One, David, has Downs Syndrome;
he was born when she was grieving the loss of three family members in four
months, one, an infant born dead. Now she knows David came to help her
heal.
Liz has published poems, memoir and short stories in The Delaware
Anthology, New Delta Review, Rattle, Harpweaver, and Natural Bridge among
others. A Delaware Division of the Arts fellowship recipient and a
Pushcart nominee in fiction, her work in Mudlark, Poster No. 54 (2004),
Lost Children, was chosen for The Best of the Web del Sol. Recently
accepted as an associate artist in residence with Sharon Olds at the
Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, she is also on
the board of Philadelphia Stories.
Spread the word. Far and wide,
William Slaughter
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