Marcia Rajnus Goldberg
Marcia Rajnus Goldberg, the second of four daughters, attended the Universities of Oregon, Texas, and Vermont before undertaking doctoral studies at McGill. Her paternal grandparents immigrated to New York in 1900 from Pague, farmed in Oregon, and settled in Sacramento. She traces her love of music to this socialist grandfather’s violin and accordion playing and to the nine long years of piano lessons she was given by her parents. A swimmer and part-time backpacker, she married a chemist/oncologist in 1964 with whom she has one son. Following their divorce, she survived as a single mom baking bread, making candles, hosting poetry reading at The Church Street Center in Burlington, Vermont, an unsurpassed learning experiencem, and teachin in high schools and colleges. She has completed four chapbooks and several unpublished manuscripts and currently teaches English at Vanier College in St. Laurent, Quebec. She has given scores of readings at V�hicule, Magnus, The Word, Double Hook, Buda Books, The Yellow Door, Caf� Sarajevo, and elsewhere. She does fundraising readings on behalf of refugee relief, environmental and peace mission organizations, and to benefit battered women. She has collaborated with Burton Rubenstein on a series of lyrical films. She shares her Saint Henri flat with seven cats and very often cycles from the Atwater Market along the Lachin canal in Montreal.
