New Book and Events Are On The Way!

Hi All,

Happy New Year!

I’m pleased to announce that my new book of poems, Buy a Ticket will be published in early spring. Its publication will also be the catalyst for a string of events and readings to promote and celebrate the book.

Here are a few readings that are already on tap, with more to come:

Saturday, May 14
Pittsburgh Book Festival

Friday, May 20
Carnegie Mellon University/Osher Friday Forum

Tuesday, July 26
Hemingways/Whale Poetry Series

Also, here’s the blurb from the back of the book:

This is a collection of poems about life—its imperfect beauty, its poignance, and the forces that propel it forward. Toggling among life stages—from a child’s recollections of school with its “blue-lined grainy first-grade paper” to an adult’s look back through the eyes of shared reminiscence with a boon companion, these poems resonate with a sense of time’s passage, its transience and elasticity. Grief and disappointment compete with an indomitable will to continue despite setbacks and loss. Whether through the eyes of teenage Holocaust survivor, Dora, who gleans the forest floors in her quest to live, or the “jobless-wounded-welfar-ians” who keep on dreaming of the windfall that will make it all better, the human beings in Judith R. Robinson’s poems may be beaten and bruised by life’s hard knocks—but they are not down for the count.

Stay tuned for more information.

Stay safe!
Judy