Ann Stanford (1916–1987) is the author of eleven poetry collections, including Holding Our Own, as well as a translation of the Bhagavad Gita and the first comprehensive collection of poetry by women, The Women Poets in English. She received many honors, among them the Shelley Memorial Award and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. She spent her whole life in California, and after her death the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize was created in her honor at the University of Southern California.

Holding Our Own

by Ann Stanford

A summer without passion
our selves pulled together
like the leaves surrounding the branches
each branch part of the tree
the tree round, holding its own in the air.

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