Creator Bio
Hugh Seidman
b. 1940
Hugh Seidman is a Brooklyn-born poet who has taught writing at a number of universities, including The New School. Seidman has received the 2004 Green Rose Prize, the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, and three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Content by Hugh Seidman
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Mother’s Day, Coney Island: Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Home
And veins web her temples,
and my father pins on the orchid,
and my card names her the best mother.
But Alzheimer’s or arteriosclerosis (the end is the same)
praises him ad nauseum,
but accuses my…