"Victor Altshul, a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Medical School, has been practicing psychiatry in New Haven for over fifty years. an English major in college, he rediscovered poetry five years ago while attending a psychoanalytic conference on Elizabeth Bishop's magnificent villanelle, "One Art".
He has published three books of poems: "Stumblings" (CreateSpace, 2013), "Singing with Starlings" (Antrim House, 2015) and "Ode to My Autumn" (Antrim House, 2017). Individual poems have also appeared in a variety of publications. In his earlier years he ran and rowed competitively, both with reasonable competence if not distinction. He has sung baritone (usually "old-guy") roles in numerous operas and in opera choruses and continues to aspire, as in his poetry, to greater levels of resonance. He lives with his wife and fellow poet Laura Altshul in New Haven." |