Esther's Page

POETICS

Doctoral thesis: Irena Klepfisz: A Life in Print - The Early Years, 1975 to 1992, University of Washington, 1994.

Chapbook: The Homeless One: A Poem in Many Voices

Essays

"Teaching Crysta Casey: She lived a hard life well, even wonderfully," Raven Chronicles, Spring 2012.

"Diary of My Husband’s Illness: After His Death - Still Witnessing Alzheimer’s.” Journal of Poetry Therapy, Spring 2012

J.W. Marshall & The Poetry of Illness seattlepi.com, Oct. 2010 (Blog Harriet review).

"Witnessing Alzheimer’s through Diary and Poem - Dear Alzheimer’s: Why Did You Pick Our Sheltered Lives to Visit?" The Journal of Poetry Therapy, 2010.

"Engaging Poetry and Jewish History: An Interview with Pesha Joyce Gertler," DRASH: Northwest Mosaic, 2008.

Irena Klepfisz, loss and the poetry of exile, The Journal of Poetry Therapy, Sept 2005.

Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery by Maxine Kumin , The Journal of Poetry Therapy, Sept 2005.

Don't Turn Away: Poems About Breast Cancer by Patricia Wellingham-Jones, The Journal of Poetry Therapy Museletter, 2005.

On Poets, Writing & Alcoholism: A Review of Joan Fiset's Now the Day is Over," Transference. EU & Beyond, Fall 2001.

The Psychiatrist As Poet, The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Review, 1994.

Biography, Book reviews, Memoir

"Siegl, Eleanor: Educator (1917-1996)," HistoryLink, January 2010.

"Schmidl, Fritz" (1897-1969)," HistoryLink, April 2008.

"Edith Buxbaum, Latency and Me - Between the Oedipus Complex and Adolescence: The Quiet Time - Letter to Edith," he Journal of Poetry Therapy, Volume 19, Number 2 , June 2006, pp. 83-90.

"Analytic Entrapment," American Imago: Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences, 62.3 (2005) 339-363.

"Pioneers of Child Psychoanalysis: Edith Buxbaum, 1902 - 1982," ACP TODAY: Association for Child Psychoanalysis Newsletter, Winter 2003, pp. 8-9.

"Buxbaum, Edith, Ph.D., Psychoanalyst (1902-1982)," HistoryLink, 2002.

"The Psychoanalytic Experience: Analysands Speak - Editor's Report," The Drunken Boat, Fall 2001, Vol.2, Issue III.

"I Don't Remember Why I Hated Him," Transference.EU & Beyond, Summer 2001.

Eating Pavlova by D.M.Thomas, The American Psychoanalyst, 1996.

"Review of Janet Malcolm's The Purloined Clinic," Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Review, 1994.

"Diary of An Analysis: Hermeneutically Yours - Musings on the Dyad as Text,"The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Review, Vol. 3, No. 3, Winter 1992.

"The Psychoanalyst as Mentor," Upstream: A Magazine for Northwest Readers and Writers, Winter 1992.

Complete Publication History , including poems

Work in Progress

Edith Buxbaum, Ph.D. 1902 - 1982: She Led with Her Mind (Psychoanalytic Pedagogy in the Pacific Northwest)

BLOGS, WEBSITES, CLASSES

Witnessing Alzheimer's: A Caregiver's View

Writing Edith Buxbaum

Esther's Writing Works

Websites

The Edith Buxbaum Journal

The Psychoanalytic Experience: Analysands Speak

Psychoanalysis: The Magic & the Lie

It's About Time Writers Reading Series

Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry

The Writer's Role in Society

Selected Writing Classes & Workshops Taught

Student Comments

Poeming the Silence: for Memory, Healing & Art's Sake, 2000 - present

Cancer Lifeline, Writing Classes for Women, 2006-2008

Richard Hugo House

Ann Sexton & the Transformation of Fairy Tales

Dream Writing: Stories from Your Unconscious

Writing the Body

Disappearances & Displacement: Writing on Marginality & Exile

Dream Writing: for Memory and Art's Sake

Shelter and the Writing Process, Language as Haven

Shelter and the Writing Process, Beyond the Self

North Seattle Community College

Write Your Life Story & Poetry classes for Senior Adults, 1987-1994

Orion Homeless Youth Shelter, FamilyWorks

Writing & Hunger

Seattle Women's Caucus for Art Teen Mentorship Program Journal writing

Jewish Family Service, Shalom House for adults with schizophrenia (one on one)

United Cerebral Palsy (one on one)

Council House Retirement Home:

Write Your Life Story, 1985-1987

S.P.I.C.E. (Seattle Program in Service for the Elderly)

Write Your Life Story

826 Seattle, writing & tutoring center

for youths ages 8-18, Summer 2010

Poeming the Silence: A Women's Writing Class - dedicated to the use of the poem as a vehicle for accessing voice. Beginning & experienced writers welcome. I use poems to trigger writing in any form. Prior knowledge isn't necessary. Tuesdays, 7 - 9 pm. email for location

"Poeming the Silence" at Greenwood Senior Center

Beginning & experienced women writers welcome.

Wed, Jun 20- Aug 1 (*No class Jul 4 or 11), 1-3pm

GSC, $60/PNA Member, $75/Public - (206) 297-0875)

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Poeming the Silence at Greenwood Senior Center, Thursday March 1, 2012, 10 am - noon.

"Witnessing Alzheimer’s: A Caregiver’s View: the Pantoum as Healing Tool," National Association for Poetry Therapy Chicago, Friday April 27, 2012.

Raven Chronicles at Jack Straw Productions, ""Writing the Alzheimer's Experience: A Workshop for Caregivers and their Friends, Sunday May 6, 2012, 1 - 3:30 pm. Postponed due to low enrollment. If you want to be on a list for this class, email eahelfgott2@comcast.net

Northwest Center for Creative Aging, "Writing the Alzheimer's Experience: A Workshop for Caregivers." Six Mondays, March 19 - April 23, 2012, 1 - 3 pm. Postponed due to low enrollment. If you want to be on a list for this class, email eahelfgott2@comcast.net