by Lisa Gruenberg | Oct 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
An update on the deluxe paperback edition of My City of Dreams: We’ve had some challenges. The high-quality paper TidePool Press prefers became scarce in 2021, causing delays. Then there was a fire at the plant that makes the covers. Then the computer systems at the...
by Lisa Gruenberg | Oct 3, 2022 | Off the Shelf
I was going through old files and I found this, an “annotation” on craft from my MFA. It was wonderful to go back fifteen years and see what I was thinking; it was also wonderful to reread this poem by Sheamus Heaney. I never drank in high school or college. All wine...
by Lisa Gruenberg | Mar 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
[Photo Caption: Jewish nurses and nursing students gather around a cart outside a coffee house on the designated Judenstrasse during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, ca. 1940-1942 – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Clara Renee Karen...
by Lisa Gruenberg | Jul 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
In 2007-2010 I made three service trips to the Eastern Cape of South Africa, the subject of an essay titled And the Lame Shall Walk published in the Michigan Quarterly Review. I’d finished the first draft of My City of Dreams and was trying to write something new. I...
by Lisa Gruenberg | Jun 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
I had a wonderful virtual reading in my hometown of Syracuse, NY through Temple Concord on March 22. It was great to see so many old friends and new readers. I read the first paragraph from one of the old “beginnings” of my memoir, back when it started with merged...
