Yarrow House

Welcome to Yarrow House

Home of Judith Yarrow's art and writing, and the Signe Hanson Memorial site.

New in Yarrow House

Some new publications:
"Missing," in On the Run (5/12/2023)
Five poems in Medusa's Kitchen (2/18/2023)

My poem Life at Large was recently published in The Bluebird Word (9/3/2022).

I'm grateful to annnounce the publication of my essay Weekend at Whiskey Creek Beach in Raven's Perch (8/30/2022)

I'm happy to annnounce the recent publication of my essay Plot for a Lifetime in issue two of Lit 202. (6/31/2022)

I just received a Wayfarer Writing Certification! (6/27/2022)

Two of my poems were published in Plants and Poetry's Autumn Equinox collection.

I Met an Octopus on the Way to Alpha Centauri
If humans ever managed to travel between our solar system and other stars and found planets circling those stars, we’d immediately begin looking for advanced life. A few key questions for any creatures we found would be: Are you conscious? Are you intelligent? How should I treat you?

Future Conditional
Wanting to know what’s coming, how long it will take, is probably hard-wired, but that doesn't make it any easier to live with when it come to the slow decline of a parent.

Sailing to Forever One rainy November night in 1969, in Tacoma, we decided to sail around the world.

I'm Not Color Blind: Race in My Life
Why am I not color blind? How is it, after all these years of valuing interracial equity, that racial awareness is still alive in me? And more importantly, what can I do to erase that automatic racial awareness?

Perils of an Expat in Japan: Demotion in Status
Most white Americans never have to deal with the effects of racism. When I lived in Japan, I had the opportunity to experience firsthand what my fellow, dark-skinned Americans live with all their lives.

On Producing a Book with My Mother

Also

Check out the Reading Room for more stories and poems.

Available from Court Street Press:
Taught by Life: Art and Stories, by Roosevelt Lewis
Take Time, Yah: Tales from Liberia, and 
You Never Try, You Never Know: Six Years in Liberia, by Ruth Jacobson 

For the family, a memorial to my grandmother, Signe Fries Hanson.

My neighborhood project, the Charlestown Hillclimb development, is complete. Now it's weeding and watering while the plants get established.