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Publisher, Charles Troob
Associate Publisher, Lorne Taichman
Associate Publisher, Tom Ashley

Prose Editors: Mary Houts and Eric Roper

Prose Readers:
Mary Elwood
Mary Houts
Ruth Kavesh
Sara Petitt
Eric Roper
Ira Rubin
Susan Smahl

Poetry Editor: Mark Fischweicher and Irene Sax

Poetry Judges:
Mark Fischweicher
Carmen Mason
Judith Meyerowitz
Irene Sax

Photo Editor: Jerry Vogel

Photo Judges:
Janna Amelkin
Ron Forlenza
Jonathan Gaines
Lale Odekon
Susan Rauch
Gerald Reisner
Robin Glasser Sacknoff
Claude Samton
Susanne Yellin

With special thanks to Denise Waxman for her help in publishing Voices onto the web.

We are pleased to bring you the ninth edition of Voices Online.  There was too much turmoil in 2020 to produce an issue, but here we are again, presenting the amazing work of our talented members.
Thanks to the many people who made this issue possible:  the contributors, the judges, and the editors.  And thanks to our new home, the Graduate Center, for a seamless transition to a bright future.
We have dedicated this issue to three people who made enormous contributions to Voices Online and are no longer with us, Peter Houts, Marshall Marcovitz and Mary R. Smith.
Soon it will be time to start thinking about the next edition.  We invite new and newer members of the Lifelong Peer Learning Program to come aboard as contributors and leaders of the process.

Charles Troob, Publisher
Tom Ashley and Lorne Taichman, Associate Publishers

VOICES: 2018

Charles Troob, Publisher
Lorne Taichman, Associate Publisher
Tom Ashley, Associate Publisher

Prose Editors: Mary Houts and Eric Roper

Prose Readers:
Eileen Brener
Mary Elwood
Mary Houts
Ruth Kavesh
Sharon Lewin
Sara Petit
Eric Roper
Ira Rubin
Ettie Taichman

Poetry Editor:
 Mark Fischweicher

Poetry Judges:
Sylvia Brill

Mark Fischweicher
Carmen Mason
Carol Schoen

Photo Editors: Peter Houts and Jerry Vogel

Photo Judges:
Janna Amelkin
Harold Berkowitz
Bob Feinstein
Susan Herman
Peter Houts
Marshall Marcovitz
Gerald Reisner
Robin Sacknoff
Claude Samton
Susan Winston
Susanne Yellin

 

Harriet Sohmers Zwerling joined the IRP in the Fall of 1996.   Her Wikipedia bio     describes her as “an American writer and an artist’s model.”  We knew her as an inimitable and indomitable colleague.   In her last years she required a walker to preserve balance, but she still went everywhere in her little red car.

Harriet spent most of the decade of the 1950’s in Europe, a period she chronicled in her memoir, Abroad:  An Expatriate’s Diaries.  She was associated with many of the most famous literary figures of the time, including James Baldwin and Norman Mailer.  She had relationships with both Susan Sontag and Maria Irene Fornes. and she appears in documentary films about both these women.

She then returned to the United States, married, and had a long career as a public school teacher in Brooklyn.   She is survived by her son Milo, a musician.

Harriet was open about her sexual activities and interests, and her writing was vivid and fearless.  She was a regular contributor to Voices, and her first book, Notes of a Nude Model, includes two pieces originally published in Voices.

Mary Elwood sent us the following remembrance of Harriet:
“Harriet went to Black Mountain College, a famous progressive school in North Carolina which lasted from the Thirties to the Fifties.   A few years ago, IRP offered a study group about the College, and Harriet graciously agreed to address our class about her experience as a student.   She was fascinating, bringing immediacy to a history that was already a bit misty.
“Harriet didn’t tell the class, but favored us coordinators with her memory of having Anni Albers look over at H. in the BMC dining hall, and remark to her husband, Josef (both were mainstays as instructors at the College for more than fifteen years),  ‘That girl herself is a work of art,’  “

Here are links to Harriet’s pieces that appeared in Voices Online.

Her prose:
https://lp2voicesonline.com/the-block/
https://lp2voicesonline.com/55-christopher-street-the-old-days/
https://lp2voicesonline.com/the-canal/
https://lp2voicesonline.com/beach-point/
https://lp2voicesonline.com/the-scorpions-tale/

Her poetry
https://lp2voicesonline.com/ode-to-stolichnaya/
https://lp2voicesonline.com/grasshopper/
https://lp2voicesonline.com/three-afternoons-at-beach-point/
https://lp2voicesonline.com/the-neverweres/
https://lp2voicesonline.com/artemis/
https://lp2voicesonline.com/dunes/
https://lp2voicesonline.com/bayscape/
https://lp2voicesonline.com/persona/