Elegy for the Children of Newtown

Judith Harris, PhD, is the author of three books of poetry and a critical book on psychoanalysis and literature, Signifying Pain: Constructing and Healing the Self through Writing. Her poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times blog, and Slate. Her articles have appeared in Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society, Division/Review, The Chronicle, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, The Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, and The British Journal of Guidance and Counselling. She is at work on a new book, The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies, to be published by Routledge next year. She has taught at George Washington University, American University, and Catholic University. She can be contacted at jlha.gwu.edu.