Poems from Life with Juniper Village is a project developed in partnership between the Pennsylvania Center for the Book and Juniper Village Senior Living at Brookline to share and celebrate the lives of Juniper residents with original, individualized poems presented by local poets.
2017 Poems from Life with Juniper Village
Here’s an Empty Horse
—for Lois Price
Alison Jaenicke
Interview: Meet Tom Roush
—for Tom Roush
Teresa Stouffer
On Visiting Lois
—for Lois Snavely
John Ziegler
A History of the Senses
—for John Flynn
Camille-Yvette Welsch
Watercolor with Stan
—for Stanley Person
Nicole Miyashiro
Editha, With Two Yellow Birds
—for Editha Seidel
Abby Minor
I Did All Right
—for Max Confer
Mary Rohrer-Dann
Fred Harris, American Small Town Barber
—for Fred Harris
Sarah Russell
Ode for Rose
—for Rose Plozner
Julia Kasdorf
Project Team — Pennsylvania Center for the Book: Ellysa Stern Cahoy and Nicole Miyashiro; Juniper Village at Brookline: Katie Kensinger and Jill McKenrick.
With special thanks to — Nathan Valchar, poster designer; Tasha Craig, original poster and program art; 98.7 The Freq – Morning Mixtape with Jason Crane; Nittany Valley Writer’s Network; the families of featured residents; and each poet and featured resident!