Significantly telling is her remark about her recent work-that the poem and story have come to seem less differentiable. Her poems tend toward the narrative, the poetics of which are further evident in her paintings and handmade books, and her work has appeared in a variety of publications. Kassirer at one time helped run a children’s musical theatre, both as writer and director. Both of her daughters have long been engaged with writing and publishing. Her father wrote articles about his experience in World War I her brother was a prize-winning poet a great great aunt wrote poetry for Harper’s Magazine in the 1800s and a great great great uncle founded a literary journal in New York City and, under the pseudonym Harry Franco, produced a number of sea-faring novels. Norma Kassirer’s writing is informed as much by nature as by nurture. “Milly Saved from Tinting Plus Blue Lace”.Milly is a short-cycle collection of stories by Norma Kassirer, including:
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