Judy Snow died on August 28 at her home in Plymouth, Massachusetts, at the age of 70. She is survived by her sister, Patricia, and brothers, Phillip, David, and Douglas. Judy grew up in California and graduated in 1968 from UCLA with a major in Humanities. After graduation, she traveled extensively and taught English in Austria and Japan for five years. In 1985, she settled in Plymouth where, until her retirement in 2004, she worked as "a postal clerk by day and a poet before dawn." In 2001, Judy co-founded The Tidepool Poets, a Plymouth-based group. Her poetry, while remarkably diverse, reflects sensitive explorations of the beauty of New England's nature and the depths of the human spirit. Recurring themes in Judy's work are early childhood memories, siblings, nature, science, and the cosmos. In form, her poetry is characterized by striking images, brevity, and powerfully terse rhythms. Among the most frequent and startling images are beautiful effects of light which suggest renewal and spiritual transformation "when radiance was caught and held by fern or tree," "shining edge of my own knowing," "Easter tree of reborne light," "glittering with effervescent sound." Peace at last, her poems seem to assure us, is possible between things and spirit, touch and intangibility. Judy's poems were accepted by a range of publications including favorite journals like Avocet, the Aurorean, and Pegasus. Since the inception of Tidepool's annual volume of collective work in 2003, Judy contributed to the volume every year and served as the publication's Editor. Judy's other interests and activities include photography, reading (especially history), caring for her cat, Molly, and gardening.
Judy Snow died on August 28 at her home in Plymouth, Massachusetts, at the age of 70. She is survived by her sister, Patricia, and brothers, Phillip, David, and Douglas. Judy grew up in California and graduated in 1968 from UCLA with a major in Humanities. After graduation, she traveled extensively and taught English in Austria and Japan for five years. In 1985, she settled in Plymouth where, until her retirement in 2004, she worked as "a postal clerk by day and a poet before dawn." In 2001, Judy co-founded The Tidepool Poets, a Plymouth-based group. Her poetry, while remarkably diverse, reflects sensitive explorations of the beauty of New England's nature and the depths of the human spirit. Recurring themes in Judy's work are early childhood memories, siblings, nature, science, and the cosmos. In form, her poetry is characterized by striking images, brevity, and powerfully terse rhythms. Among the most frequent and startling images are beautiful effects of light which suggest renewal and spiritual transformation "when radiance was caught and held by fern or tree," "shining edge of my own knowing," "Easter tree of reborne light," "glittering with effervescent sound." Peace at last, her poems seem to assure us, is possible between things and spirit, touch and intangibility. Judy's poems were accepted by a range of publications including favorite journals like Avocet, the Aurorean, and Pegasus. Since the inception of Tidepool's annual volume of collective work in 2003, Judy contributed to the volume every year and served as the publication's Editor. Judy's other interests and activities include photography, reading (especially history), caring for her cat, Molly, and gardening.
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