"Harvest of What Remains" with Author Wendy Drexler

Tuesday, October 13 | 7:00 p.m. | Onsite

Harvest of What Remains is a tribute to all caregivers, whose dedication often goes unrecognized. It offers comfort and understanding to anyone who has cared for someone with dementia, or anyone who has witnessed the slow unraveling of memory. It should be obligatory reading for all clinicians working with patients with dementia and their families as a loud and needed reminder of the moving humanity in the privilege of our responsibility.

Wendy Drexler is a recipient of a 2022 artist fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her fourth collection, Harvest of What Remains, received honorable mention for the Paul Nemser Prize and was published in February 2026 by Lily Poetry Review Books. This collection navigates her journey as the primary caregiver for her husband as Alzheimer’s wraps its great arms around them, irrevocably reshaping their relationship and summoning deep wells of grief, survival strategies, and the imperative to sow seeds of love and compassion. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, J Journal, Mid-American Review, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, The Hudson Review, The Sun, and The Threepenny Review, among others. She was awarded the 2025 E.E. Cummings prize from the New England Poetry Club. A recipient of the Juror's Prize for Art on the Trails, Southborough, MA, in 2021, Wendy served as poet in residence at New Mission High School in Hyde Park, MA, from 2018–2023, and as programming co-chair for the New England Poetry Club from 2016–2024. She currently serves on the Club’s advisory board. 

Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD, Medical Director, Deanna and Sidney Wolk Center for Memory Health, who wrote a foreword for Harvest of What Remains, calls it "a tribute to all caregivers, whose dedication often goes unrecognized. It offers comfort and understanding to anyone who has cared for someone with dementia, or anyone who has witnessed the slow unraveling of memory." Poet and Pulitzer-prize winner Lloyd Schwartz says, "This is a book that helps us get better at being human."  And poet Sarah Dickenson Snyder writes that "Harvest of What Remains is a brave, intimate immersion into living with and loving someone with Alzheimer’s disease. This collection feels raw, heartbreaking, and necessary." Learn more.

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