by Jerri Dell | Feb 22, 2023 | Books, Family, Friends, Poetry, Uncategorized
A year ago, I posted a short piece “The Ghost of Edna St. Vincent Millay” in honor of Millay’s 130th birthday. In it I described the extraordinary influence she and her poetry had on my young self. What I didn’t mention was the influence she has continued... 
by Jerri Dell | Feb 22, 2022 | Books, Family, Poetry
One hundred and thirty years ago today Edna St. Vincent Millay – a remarkable, sometimes scandalous, and always brilliant poet, was born in Rockland, Maine. Twenty-five years later she moved to Greenwich Village, where she and my grandfather Floyd Dell – a... 
by Jerri Dell | Feb 22, 2021 | Friends, Poetry
My good friend Krystyna Poray Goddu, author of a biography for young people of the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay– A Girl Called Vincent has been on my mind of late. Krystyna and I met in 2015, when she was living in Cumberland, Maryland, not far from my... 
by Jerri Dell | Jan 22, 2021 | American History, Poetry, Social Justice
I can hardly express how relieved I am today now that the inauguration of the 46th American President is behind us, nor how my spirit is beginning to lift, despite the horrors of covid-19 still ahead. I am choosing to believe, I need to believe, that President Biden...
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