Talking to the Night by Susan Meehan

Talking to the Night is the first book of poetry by 2017 DC Poet Project winner Susan Meehan. The 2017 DC Poet Project competition was produced by the non-profit Day Eight with support from the DC Commission on the Arts, LISC DC, and through the support of participating poets and partners, including the DC Public Library, Upshur Street Books, American Poetry Museum, and BRINK media and poets Gregory Luce, Elizabeth Ashe, Abdul Ali, Ethelbert Miller, Melanie Figg, Joseph Ross, and Danielle Evennou.  The cover image is by conservation photographer Jim Dougherty. Author Bio: Susan Meehan grew up on Long Island’s North Shore during World War II. The North Shore at that time was rural, and forested, and because gasoline and oil were rationed she often watched her father and a neighbor use a double-handed saw to cut logs for heat. She was provided a classic education in a tiny but capable local Quaker school – there were two other students in her 8th grade class. After graduating from Welles