A Literary Magazine in Support of the Jewish Community
Otters at Moro Bay
Sleeping in kelp beds,
they look like old
grandmothers who wrap
their hair in a babushka,
and then lie still until
something wakes them:
a grandchild, a bomb,
a thrashing of memory.
Claudia M. Reder
Claudia M. Reder's newest book is Dizzying Words (Main Street Rag, 2025). She also wrote How to Disappear (Blue Light Press, 2019) and My Father & Miro (Bright Hill Press, 2001), winner of the Bright Hill Press Award. How to Disappear was awarded first prize in the Pinnacle and Feathered Quill awards. She was awarded the Charlotte Newberger Poetry Prize from Lilith Magazine. Previously, she was a storyteller and poet in the schools in Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Now retired from teaching at California State University Channel Islands, she has moved from coastal California to Pittsburgh.
