Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Great Regulars: Until recently, Roz Spafford taught writing

at UC Santa Cruz. She also wrote book reviews as well as a column, called Mediations, for local and regional newspapers. She now lives and writes in Canada. Her first book, 'Requiem' received the 2008 Gell Poetry Prize. The following poems are from The Gospel According to Mary, the center section of 'Requiem,' published by Big Pencil Press (the publishing imprint of Writers & Books) in 2008.

Mother of the Disappeared

from Good Times Weekly: Poetry Corner: Excerpts from Roz Spafford's 'Requiem'

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