Claire Weiner

Claire Weiner's poetry has been published in After Hours Press, Burningwood Literary Review, Michigan Jewish History Society, Peninsula Poets and Intima. She spent her non-writing career as a clinical social worker helping people make more sense of their life stories before turning to writing. Her chapbook, For a Chance to Walk on Streets of Gold, was published by Finishing Line Press in Spring 2024. She is currently working on a second book, a full length manuscript.

“my first time, 1968,” “My boyfriend and I drive from Blomington to Champaingne 1970,” and “The sun finds us”

in the basement
of the bi-level
where I live
with my parents
and older sister
in a small middle class
suburb of Chicago