Cindy Frenkel’s writing has appeared in publications ranging from The New Yorker to WIRED to The New York Ob-server, where she was a columnist. She served as writer/editor of the Detroit Institute of Arts magazine (DIA) and a writer-in-residence with InsideOut Literary Arts Project. She is the co-author of 100 Essential Books for Jewish Readers and author of the chapbook, The Plague of the Tender-Hearted (Finishing Line Press, 2020). Her full-length poetry collection is forthcoming from Kelsay Books.
Since Harold’s partner died first,I’m gifted his antique Flow Blue teapot,sugar, creamer, which I keepnext to the porcelain pitcher wheremy father’s wooden paintbrushes showtheir bristles like little bud-brooms.These sit atop a thick, large navy splatter-ware plate I threw at Benningtonmore than forty years ago.What remains? I recall the feel of
VOLUME 3: ISSUE 4
WINTER 2026
