Today I Threw My Watch Away by Georgia Ressmeyer

A native of Long Island, New York, Georgia Ressmeyer has lived happily in Wisconsin since 1974, first as an attorney and now as a poet.

She taught English at a women’s junior college in Tokyo, Japan, served as a staff attorney with legal services programs in Wisconsin and Minnesota, worked as a legal consultant and grant-writer for feminist groups in Milwaukee, and for eighteen years provided defense representation to individuals diagnosed with mental illnesses and disabilities as a staff and managing attorney with the Wisconsin State Public Defender’s Office.

A Pushcart Prize nominee in poetry and this year’s Honorable Mention award winner in the Lorine Niedecker poetry competition sponsored by the Council for Wisconsin Writers, she has published numerous poems, an award-winning poetry chapbook, Today I Threw My Watch Away (Finishing Line Press, 2010), and two full-length poetry collections, Waiting to Sail (Black River Press, 2014) and Home/Body (Pebblebrook Press, 2017). She lives near Lake Michigan in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.