People Who Do Not Exist

People Who Do Not Exist needs to be taken seriously. Abby Bogomolny’s writing is brave, honest and compassionate. It is a breathing portrait—neighbors who sit and talk on stoops, poems of loyalty and history, courtyards and community. More voiced like these could spark the debate we need to be having in this country,

—Maria L. Masqué, Former Director, Institute of Hispanic/Latino Cultures, University of Florida

I found much to relate to in Abby Bogomolny’s newest collection. In particular, reading her poems about her Brooklyn Jewish childhood was like coming home to a place I have been away from for a long time. Bogomolny preserves the vital language and lifestyle, the Yiddishkeit, of her parents and grandparents, with wit and heart.”

—Lesléa Newman, 1997 NEA Poetry Fellowship recipient and author of Still Life with Buddy, Love Me Like You Mean It, and Out of the Closet and Nothing to Wear.

I’ll enjoy and be inspired by these poems over and over, and I’ll use them in my classes as models for my students.


—Kathleen Culver, Ph.D., Santa Fe Community College