Judith Baumel, Author at Consequence Forum

Judith’s previous books are The Weight of Numbers, for which she won The Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, Now, and The Kangaroo Girl which was named a top five poetry book of 2011 by The Forward. She is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Creative Writing Program at Adelphi University. She has served as president of The Association of Writers and Writing Programs, director of The Poetry Society of America and a Fulbright Scholar in Italy.

Spuntinu in Gerace

by Judith Baumel | Mar 5, 2019 | Poetry

Friend! This year the olives will be late, it has been cool. Cool? I’ve never sweltered like this. No. This is what cool means. We pick by hand, putting in ventilated boxes in the shade to press that very day. We know what Abbas Ibn Fadhl thought he knew...