Lou Weiner: Poetry and art help us imagine my mother’s world as a hidden child of the Holocaust - The Cancer Letter

Lou Weiner: Poetry and art help us imagine my mother’s world as a hidden child of the Holocaust - The Cancer Letter

I write a weekly blog for Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center community. Here I share an updated version of a blog post I wrote in September 2024, now supplemented by some poems I have written over the years that inspired paintings by my wife Harriet Weiner, who is a much better artist than I am a poet or writer.  The title of the blog was “Summer Vacation 2024.” We continue to work on the project and hope to take it on …