Who wrote these poems—and why? Poetry has always been in Susan’s writings filled with emotion diversity intensity and whimsy. It reflects her searches for both her Irish and Jewish heritages her Quaker involvement and her love of Washington DC where she has lived for more than fifty years. A poli sci major at Wellesley she edited a book on Irish politics in Boston when in grad school at Boston University. Eventually she came to DC as an international affairs management intern—a program at which