{"product_id":"searching-for-sisterhood-a-memoir-in-poems","title":"Searching for Sisterhood: A Memoir in Poems","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristine Baldino O'Hanlon\u003c\/strong\u003e’s first career was writing advertising—TV, print, online—for credit cards and cookie mixes. She retired from advertising when her first grandchild was born, and was inspired to return to writing poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe Bronx Years,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e her first collection (Finishing Line Press, 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e), recalls her rebellion growing up in an Italian-American family in the Bronx, NY. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSEARCHING for SISTERHOOD,\u003c\/i\u003e her poems take you inside the male bastion of advertising in the 1970s, working motherhood in the ’80s, finding sisterly support in unexpected places.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eHer poems appear in \u003ci\u003eHer Words, Paterson Literary\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eReview, Voices in Italian-Americana\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOvunque Siamo\u003c\/i\u003e (New Italian-American Writing), \u003ci\u003eJerry Jazz Musician, Silver Birch Press,\u003c\/i\u003e and in the anthology\u003ci\u003e Rumors, Secrets \u0026amp; Lies. \u003c\/i\u003eChristine lives with her husband Brian on the Upper Eastside of Manhattan.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback: 94 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (February 21, 2026)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52983205429432,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0013\/0800\/0329\/files\/ohanlon2_front.jpg?v=1773116604","url":"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/searching-for-sisterhood-a-memoir-in-poems","provider":"Kelsay Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}