I am grateful to the UCLA Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Program and its support group. And to Los Angeles Jewish Health. A special thank you to Andrea Carter Brown, my first reader for many of these poems. To my communities, immense gratitude. And to friends who were there when I most needed it, Saundra Woodruff, Antoinette Jaccard, Johanna Drucker, Norm Levine, Rena Panush, Lauren Devine, Merry Reinis, Sharon Teruya, Deborah Potus and Mercedes Lawry. As always to David and Colleen, Bernie, Jacob and Teddy. Thank you to Brad Freeman for the cover art and to Brian L. Jacobs at Tofu Ink Arts Press for giving these poems a home.

Carol V. Davis is the author of Below Zero, Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2023, Because I Cannot Leave This Body (Truman State Univ. Press, 2017) and Between Storms (TSUP, 2012). She won the 2007 T.S. Eliot Prize for Into the Arms of Pushkin: Poems of St. Petersburg.

It's Time to Talk About. was published in Russia, in a bilingual English/Russian edition (Symposium, 1997). Her poetry has been read on National Public Radio, the Library of Congress and Radio Russia. Twice a Fulbright scholar in Russia, she taught in Siberia, winters 2017 and 2018 and teaches at Santa Monica College, California and Antioch University Los Angeles. She was awarded a Fulbright Specialist grant for Siberia in 2020, postponed because of Covid restrictions and now cancelled.