Margaret Roman

Margaret Roman is a Professor Emeritus of English, Saint Elizabeth University, Morristown, NJ. Author of Sarah Orne Jewett: Reconstructing Gender, 1992, paperback ed. 2017, University of Alabama Press. Her poem, “Look Up,” in the 2023 Collection of the Writing Lab Summer Residency, Arts By The People, tied for best poem in the volume.

April 7th (POEM)

You are to me

the Easter lilies

in the dark garden

fragrant fluted lanterns

brighter than stars

and closer

warm beacons

holding up the night

where we dwell

rooted to the earth