Tamara Rasmussen lives in a small fishing village overlooking the ocean on the northern tip of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. She and her husband have lived here since 1970 raising their four children, working in the garden, and enjoying rural community life. Tamara is a teacher, now retired, with a Master’s Degree from Harvard University. She has written poetry since she was a girl. Tamara has presented her work at public readings and at poetry workshops. Her poems have appeared online in Synchronized Chaos and in print in The Antigonish Review, Trivia- a Journal of Ideas, and The Laurentian Magazine among other publications.
Now is all that keeps me from before and after. I stay here to do the work of love and laughter.
