Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1976

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Last updated: 2/27/2026. Deadline for submissions to be included in next planned update: 3/15/2026.
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Books Poetry

Classmate	Title	Pub, Year	Description	For more information...
Lavin, Maud	Maud Lavin, Swim Lessons: poems	Tulipwood Books, 2025	In this collection of poetry and essays, Maud Lavin crafts a generous vision of Lake Michigan, Chicago, pacifist Jewish heritage, climate science, sensuality, love, and ethics--all experienced through the senses of an ever-changing body.	available from this link

Whitehouse, Anne Cherner	Adrienne Fidelin Restored	Ethelzine, 2025	A narrative poem about the Black dancer from Guadeloupe who became Man Ray’s lover and inspired the Surrealists before the Second World War and was neglected by them afterwards.	Download excerpt available from Ethelzine
	Being Ruth Asawa	Ethelzine, 2023	Two narrative poems about the life and times of artist and sculptor Ruth Asawa and her friendship with the photographer Imogen Cunningham.	Download excerpt available from Ethelzine
	Frida	Ethelzine, 2023	A narrative poem about Frida Kahlo, who surely needs no introduction.	Download excerpt available from Ethelzine
	Steady	Dos Madres Press, 2023	The poems in Steady are narratives, persona poems and portraits, and lyrics. In writing them, I have tried to hold steady, so steadiness might connect them like a bridge. Steadiness is a quality most appreciated in old age when it becomes more elusive. The arrow of time moves in one direction. Poetry finds in the music of words and shaded meanings a space for contemplation, with windows and mirrors looking outward and inward, inviting us back.	Download excerpt available from Dos Madres Press
	Escaping Lee Miller	Ethelzine, 2021	A narrative poem about the life and times of photographer, artist, and model Lee Miller.	Download excerpt available from Ethelzine
	Outside from the Inside	Dos Madres Press, 2020	The poems in Outside from the Inside were suggested by my studies of anatomy and ancient Jewish texts, the legacies of loved ones, the lives of animals and the cycle of the seasons, my family life of past and present, and testimonies of others, named and nameless, that have entered my heart. Outside from the Inside also suggests the body as witness and the world as conceived by the self.	available from this link
	Surrealist Muse	Ethelzine, 2020	Surrealist Muse is a long poem inspired by the life and works of Leonora Carrington.	available from Ethelzine
	Meteor Shower	Dos Madres Press, 2016	"Imaginary gardens with real toads in them”—for the poetry of Meteor Shower, I can think of no better description than this phrase of Marianne Moore. A cultivated plot, planned and assembled for beauty and harmony from elements provided by nature with something else–the “toad”–ugly, unwanted, yet irreducibly its own, that has entered and made its home there.	available from Dos Madres
	The Refrain	Dos Madres Press, 2012	“Beyond what we see and hear and feel and what we know is something greater than human formulas can account for. This, for me, is the true subject of poetry, as close to us as a blade of grass, yet essentially unknowable. I set out to make poetry from my everyday life that finds its place among the stars and in the mud at our feet, but I take poetry where I can find it, and sometimes the lives of others enter and take up residence in my heart.“	available from Dos Madres
	One Sunday Morning	Finishing Line Press, 2011	“In her latest chapbook, Anne Whitehouse’s clear-eyed poetic vision uncovers mysteries beneath the calm surfaces of modern life… In a time when we are increasingly isolated behind the screens we carry with us everywhere, these poems urge us to recover our links to the rich, mysterious life going on outside our real and virtual windows.” -Mary Kaiser, Alabama Writers Forum	available from Finishing Line Press
	Bear in Mind	Finishing Line Press, 2010	“These poems portray exactly what they intend to portray, true feelings and a quest to understand our physical and spiritual existence...They are never elevated beyond the believable, yet they achieve a unique effect in their persistent attempt to discover and reveal the subtlety of experience. …Whitehouse doesn’t judge, and she never gives too much, but she always gives us something that sticks.” -Ron Gaskill, Jerseyworks	available from Finishing Line Press
	Blessings and Curses	Poetic Matrix Press, 2009	"...a candid and powerful work of beautifully observed moments that shed her visionary light on art, on friendship, on social history, on nature, on Buddhism, on writers and writing, on memory, on the fleeting and the eternal, and on God. This is a deeply satisfying journey through a poet's life and soul, shared with an intimacy that is both simple and profound." — Gina Browning, author of Roses of the Heart	available from Amazon
	The Surveyor’s Hand	Compton Press, 1981	The Surveyor’s Hand is Anne Whitehouse’s first poetry collection, and it contains poems written while she was an undergraduate at Harvard and a graduate student at Columbia.	available from biblio.com

Wolper, James	Jim Wolper, Misdirections	Finishing Line Press, 2025	A journey across continents and cultures, each poem is a stop along the way, offering both discovery and familiarity	available from Publisher's website