Slow children at play cecilia woloch biography

Cecilia Woloch....

It's the birthday of John Clifford Mortimer, born in London (1923).

  • It's the birthday of John Clifford Mortimer, born in London (1923).
  • Poem: "Slow Children at Play," by Cecilia Woloch, from Late (BOA Editions).
  • Cecilia Woloch.
  • Cecilia Woloch's use of the phrase “slow, children at play” is a powerful metaphor for the challenges and resilience of children who navigate.
  • All the quick children have gone inside, called by their mothers to hurry-up-wash-your-hands honey-dinner's-getting-cold, just-wait-till-your-father-gets-home.

    • Cecilia Woloch was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up there and in rural Kentucky, one of seven children of a homemaker and an airplane mechanic. She attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, earning degrees in English and Theater Arts, before moving to Los Angeles in 1979.

    She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University L.A. in 1999. A celebrated teacher, Ms. Woloch has conducted poetry workshops for thousands of children and young people throughout the United States and around the world, as well as workshops for professional writers, educators, participants in Elderhostel programs for senior citizens, and inmates at a prison for the criminally insane.

    She has served on the creative writing faculties at the University of Redlands, California State University at Northridge, The New England College MFA Program in Poetry, Emory University in Atlanta, and she is currently a lecturer in the creative writing program at the Universit