After All These Years: Poems by Ardith Hoff
By Ardith Hoff
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Ardith Hoff
Dr. Ardith Hoff holds a B.A. in teaching, an M.A. in art, and an Ed.D. in curriculum and instruction. She studied poetry at the University of Northern Iowa, Drake University, and informally at Harvard University. She has taught in the arts at every level from kindergarten through graduate school. Her most recent teaching experience was at Lesley University, Cambridge, MA. She taught, for ten years, in the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, National Outreach Division. She taught “Creative Arts in Learning” in a master’s degree program for teachers. After her retirement she was a supervisor on two national research projects. She also spent seven years as a mentor for beginning teachers at the high school near her home in Calmar, IA.
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After All These Years - Ardith Hoff
Copyright © 2012 by Ardith Hoff.
Front Cover: The Gardner Family, 1943
Family Photo Album
Back Cover: Ardith And Darrel in Tokyo
Personal Photo Album
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Contents
Acknowledgments
I
Lessons
After All These Years
Childhood on the Farm
in the Forties
Sisters
Always the Charmed Life
Inheritance
II
Fire
Thinking of You
Marriage
That First Spring
Together in Paris
Fifty-Some Years Later
Today
Flutter
Soul to Soul
Distance
Moods
Tiredness
Sleight of Hand
Morning Glory
Orchestration
Dolphins at Dawn
Sacrifice
Womanhood
To Infinity and Beyond