Work by Linda Stern
Dining Alone
In my own city, I never dine
in outdoor cafés, preferring the discreet
anonymity of dark recesses
to hide my blunders, social, spiritual,
Linda Stern's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Criterion, Promethean, The Raintown Review, BigCityLit, and Mezzo Cammin among other publications. Linda organized the Sweet Singers reading series, which featured readings by Samuel Menashe and other notable writers. With her husband, the poet David M. Katz, she co-published the poetry magazine Endymion, and more recently, she was associate editor of the online poetry journal Umbrella. Linda lives in New York City and works as an editor.