About Meredith Bergmann
Meredith Bergmann is a sculptor and poet. She is currently working on the FDR Hope Memorial for Roosevelt Island, NYC. Her poems, articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in the American Arts Quarterly, Barrow Street, The New Criterion, The New York Review of Art, The Tri Quarterly Review , and Sculpture Review and online at MezzoCammin, PerContra and Umbrella. Her sonnets appear in Judith Dupré’s Full of Grace and the anthology Hot Sonnets. She is the poetry editor of American Arts Quarterly.
Posted on 26 October 2012
On April 15, 1912, on her maiden voyage, the British steamer Titanic, the world’s largest and most luxurious ship, struck an iceberg in mid-Atlantic and sank. The White Star Line’s ships had previously suffered major wrecks and loss of life in 1854, 1873, and 1893. But 1,500 people, more than half the Titanic’s passengers, died, [...]