Mai Lon Gittelsohn lives in Del Mar where she leads classes of seniors in the writing of their memoirs. An elementary school teacher in another life, she is a Fellow with the San Diego Area Writing Project. Her poems have appeared in the San Diego Poetry Annual and the Patterson Literary Review.
I enjoy “White Bird Morning” by Mai Lon Gittelsohn for many reasons. The poem situates me in the familiarity of an early Sunday morning and then takes a turn into territory that is new to me. It isn’t long before the rich detail informs me that the poem is about the circumstances of a particular …Continue reading →