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Favorite Son
You are an antenna finely tuned
A fisherman whose hook is baited
To capture the flame of an evening smile
You are a chisel sharply honed
To excavate a dream of love
Etched in the heart
You are a touchstone
To you the magic of silence speaks.
Suzanne Richardson Harvey, Ph.D., lectured in the English Department at Stanford University for almost
two decades, nine years of which were spent as a resident fellow in an all-freshmen dormitory, together
with her husband, about which they co-authored and self-published a book entitled 'Virtual Reality and
the College Freshmen: All Our Friends Are 18'. In addition, for a semester she was a visiting lecturer
in the English Department at the University of California at Berkeley, and for almost a decade she was
an instructor in the publishing program of the University of California at Berkeley Extension. In her
retirement, Suzanne was active in teaching at Emeritus College (continuing education for older adults)
in the San Francisco Bay Area for almost a decade. She holds a doctorate in Elizabethan poetry,
specifically that of Edmund Spenser, from Tufts University. Her poetry has appeared in The Christian
Science Monitor, Concho River Review, Mannequin Envy, Poet's Ink, Wild Violet, Ascent Aspirations Magazine (Canada),
Poetry Salzburg Review (Austria), SpeedPoets (Australia), Current Accounts (UK), Poetic Hours (UK), Nth Position (UK),
among other venues. She is a member of the Academy of American Poets.
Email: Suzanne Richardson Harvey
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