Carol Lipszyc

A retired associate English professor in the SUNY system now residing in her hometown, Toronto, Carol Lipszyc has published three books of poetry: a chapbook, In the Absence of Sons; an eighty-poem anthology on the heart which she edited and contributed to, The Heart is Improvisational; and her collection of lyrical poems, Singing Me Home. Carol’s book of short stories, The Saviour Shoes and Other Stories, features children and adolescents across an arc of historical experience in the Holocaust. Her chapbook, Armorless, was released by Kelsay Books, in December 2025.

Cover of Everyday Light by John Reibetanz

Throwback: Everyday Light by John Reibetanz

February 9, 2026 by Carol Lipszyc

What Reibetanz uncovers for readers and viewers, who should interpret the poems and the art in a dual fashion, is how the Dutch painters “specialize in what’s unseen” – how they “peel layers of misogynistic myth from [the] domestic scene.”