Barbara Goldberg is the author of "Berta Broadfoot and Pepin the Short: A Merovingian Romance"; "Cautionary Tales" (winner of the Camden Poetry Award); and "Marvelous Pursuits "(winner of the Violet Reed Haas Award). Her poems have appeared in "Poetry," "The Paris Review," and "The Gettysburg Review," She is the coeditor of two anthologies of contemporary Israeli poetry, including" After the First Rain: Israeli Poems on War and Peace," Goldberg is senior speechwriter at AARP and teaches speechwriting, poetry, and translation at Georgetown University and at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Mary...