Rachmones - Poems of Compassion
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I recently had the great pleasure of interviewing my friend and fellow poet, Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik about her lastest chapbook, Rachmones - Poems of Compassion, which will be "coming soon." Pearl is an gifted writer and it is a joy to share her interview with you all. I hope you will find something that touches your heart and soul in the following. ~~~ Pearl, I am really enthralled with your new book...the poems are so personal, yet so universal! Thank you for sharing them with me. Thank you Linda, it means a great deal to me to hear that you enjoyed the poems. Could you tell us a bit about who you are, what you do professionally and why you write poetry? First of all, I think it was a wonderful intervention of the universe that this interview came to me via my commenting on a wonderful poem of your own. In what I term a “previous life-time,” I was a teacher of English and Reading in NYC and prior to that -- a long story in itself -- randomly came to