Clara Silverstein
Clara Silverstein is the author of the memoir White Girl: A Story of School Desegregation (University of Georgia Press), and three cookbooks. Her poems have been published in literary journals including Blackbird, The Paterson Literary Review, and The Comstock Review and a short non-fiction piece was broadcast on NPR’s "All Things Considered." Her articles and essays appear in Runner’s World, Hemispheres Magazine, The Boston Globe, and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She directs the summer Chautauqua Writers' Center in western New York and teaches at Grub Street in Boston.
lots where I wove through cones in driver’s ed
until I learned enough to speed
away, camshaft churning
everything slammed inside my car,
flash of crome heading north.
— from After Richmond Burned