July 2017
Penny Harter
penhart@2hweb.net
penhart@2hweb.net
I'm a poet and writer living in the South Jersey shore area. I moved here from North Jersey in January of 2009 after the 2008 death of my husband William J. (Bill) Higginson, author of The Haiku Handbook, to be closer to my daughter and family. I'm a mom, grandma, and occasional poet-teacher for the NJSCA. My work has appeared in many journals, and in twenty-some books (including chapbooks). I read at the Dodge Festival in 2010, and have enjoyed two poetry residencies at VCCA (January 2011; March 2015). Please visit my blog: http://penhart.wordpress.com and my website: www.2hweb.net/penhart. My newest books are Recycling Starlight and The Resonance Around Us: http://mountainsandriverspress.org/TitleView.aspx
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Rosa Faust, my great-grandmother
This photo was taken in Fairfax, South Carolina, where my father was born and grew up on a farm. He told me that Rosa, and her ancestors (one of whom was probably the "grandmother" I met in my dream, since she was on a bed of pelts) were among the Southern Cherokee who hid out in the Great Smokies and didn't take the Trail of Tears. However, I did meet Rosa, herself, when I was a very little girl visiting the farm. She was sitting in a rocking chair out by the barn, long gray braids down the front of her shoulders. |
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© 2017 Penny Harter
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