Category: Joan Murray

Survivors—Found: Twenty Years After 9/11

September 10, 2021

By Joan Murray | Last week, I got a call from a stranger. She was an elder at a church planning a remembrance ceremony for the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and asked if I’d read a poem. It was a poem I wrote on an Amtrak train four days after the attacks, and…
Post-Election 2016 Reading to Inspire Action, Find Meaning, and Learn from Our History

November 21, 2016

The results of the 2016 presidential election have left many people in shock and disappointment. In a time where people are fearing that a new administration will work to reverse much of the progress made in the last eight years, we are left wondering what the future holds. How do we continue to fight against…
Finding Solace in Poetry: Survivors–Found by Joan Murray

September 11, 2011

Four days after the attacks of 9/11, a chance encounter with firefighters on their way to the World Trade Center site inspired Joan Murray to write a poem.

Survivors—Found: Twenty Years After 9/11