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This poem is from the chapbook Late Flowering by Paula Goldman (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://finishinglinepress.com/product/late-flowering-by-paula-goldman/
Paula Goldman‘s book, The Great Canopy, won the Gival Press Poetry award, an honorable mention for the Independent Booksellers’ Award. Her work has appeared in theravensperch, Passager, Visions International, Rattle, Across the Margin, Oyez Review, Slant, Briar Cliff Review, Calyx, Passager, Ekphrasis, Prairie Schooner, Manhattanville Review, Cream City Review, Comstock Review, Harvard Review, The North American Review, Poet Lore, Poet Miscellany, Hawaii Pacific Review, Cæsura,and other magazines. Her poems have appeared in Boomer Girls published by the University of Iowa Press, The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetrypublished by New Rivers Press and Conversation Pieces published by Knopf. She was first prize winner in Inkwell’s (Manhattanville College) poetry competition and the Louisiana Literature Award for poetry. She holds an MA degree in Journalism from Marquette University and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Former reporter for The Milwaukee Journal, she served as a docent and lecturer at the Milwaukee Art Museum for 25 years. Late Love, a book of poems published by Kelsay Books in Utah, is her most recent book of poems. She lives in Milwaukee, WI with her husband, a retired rheumatologist, volunteering, biking, swimming, walking, lifting weights at a nearby community center from where some of her poems emanate in the locker room. Paula has three grandchildren establishing themselves in real estate, global engineering and a soon to be film maker. She takes great pride in her family life and long wedded husband. Her friends are supportive and helpful, especially in reading first drafts of poems.
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