Phyllis Beck Katz is a poet, scholar and teacher. Her poetry collections include Finding Ithaca, Migrations and All Roads Go Where They Will.

PRAISE FOR FINDING ITHACA
Losing a beloved mate of many years to cancer is a transformative grief for the soul left behind, a painful odyssey of discovery that rearranges every former certainty as we mourn. Grounded in the poet’s study of Greek and Latin literature, Phyllis Beck Katz’s Finding Ithaca moves from the depths of irretrievable loss into empathic compassion for the difficult lives of others, and further, to arrive at the restorative grace of claiming a new poetic voice. 'It begins in silence, in secret, something growing inside us/ we do not know is ours.'”
​ –Pamela Harrison, author of Glory Bush and Green Banana



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MAIN IMAGE: THOMAS COLE, THE OXBOW, OIL ON CANVAS, 1836

Photo by Arnold M. Katz