Excerpt from Vanity Fair, IN MEMORIAM, APRIL 8, 2015 1:00 PM, by Nancy Slonim Aronie
Margaret “Peggy” Freydberg lived in a cottage on Martha’s Vineyard and wrote beautiful, visual, introspective poetry that only a small circle of friends knew about. Her latest collection, Poems from the Pond, edited by Laurie David, will be released later this month. Freydberg died on March 27, a few weeks after her 107th birthday. Her friend and fellow writer Nancy Slonim Aronie remembers Peggy, whose writing career was just about to launch. Read more...