Box Poems / Old Sheets
Willa Schneberg & Larkin Warren
"[Schneberg] will speak for us, hear us, know our secret trouble, our intimate imagery and behavior. She has the life-strength, curiosity, perception,
language. To read her is to learn that we survive by caring for strangers. Willa Schneberg is a poet with healing power. I read her with gratitude."
—Milton
Kessler
"This is the other side of the lullaby—equal parts reassurance and warning—the night world where the woman sleeps alone on old sheets, listening as the
child listens, for the new and terrifying inflection of familiar sounds, foot-tap, pipe knock and something else: the enormous insistent music of her own
waking, the aubade of her own voice."
—Carol Muske
about the authors
Willa Schneberg received the 2002 Oregon Book Award In Poetry for her second collection, In The Margins of The World. Her poem "Biscuits" was read by Garrison Keillor on the Writer's Almanac. Through Poetry-In-Motion, since spring of 2004, a poem is on view in busses and Max trains in the Portland, Oregon metro area. American Poetry Review, Tikkun, Southern Poetry Review, Salmagundi, Exquisite Corpse, Michigan Quarterly Review, are among the journals in which poems have appeared. Willa has organized a yearly reading series of Jewish Writers at the Oregon Jewish Museum in Portland, and has been an artist-in-residence at the Tyrone Guthrie Center, Ireland, the Vermont Studio Center and currently at the Helen Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos. She will judge the 2004 Reuben Rose Memorial Poetry Competition for Voices Israel. For the last ten years she has lived in Portland, Oregon. She is a psychotherapist in private practice, a clay sculptor and photographer.
Larkin Warren is a single mother who writes of the freedoms and loneliness of the single life. She has published in various literary journals.
