{"product_id":"superbloom-requiem-for-my-sister","title":"Superbloom: Requiem for My Sister","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoyce Schmid\u003c\/strong\u003e is a grandmother and psychotherapist living in Palo Alto, California, with her husband of over half a century. After graduation from Harvard College in History and Literature, she studied Russian Literature at Columbia Graduate School where she was twice awarded their Pushkin Prize for poetry translation. She then earned a Ph.D., in Clinical Psychology from the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology (now Palo Alto University).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eHer poems have most recently appeared in \u003cem\u003eBridport Prize Anthology 2025\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Hudson Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/the-orchards-poetry-journal-winter-2024?_pos=2\u0026amp;_sid=2e2b847ce\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Orchards Poetry Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew Ohio Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePassager\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSalt\u003c\/em\u003e, and other journals and anthologies. Her chapbook is \u003cem\u003eNatural Science\u003c\/em\u003e (Glass Lyre Press, 2025).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eWhen Joyce’s younger sister Dolly was an undergraduate at Harvard, she was admitted to a coveted poetry workshop taught by Robert Lowell, who admired her poetry. After it ended, Dolly never wrote poetry again. In Dolly’s last years, Joyce asked her if she could quote those poems in her own work. “Please do,” she answered. “Maybe that way someone will see them.” Accordingly, some of the poems in this chapbook contain Dolly’s beautiful words.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback: 52 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (April 13, 2026)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53367407673528,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0013\/0800\/0329\/files\/schmid_front.jpg?v=1776540594","url":"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/superbloom-requiem-for-my-sister","provider":"Kelsay Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}