This Is How He Left Me

A book of poems by Jennifer Hook. Jennifer met her husband, Gary Ayres in 1975, when they were freshmen at the University of California Santa Cruz. They founded Hook-Ayres Design in Philadelphia in 1991 and sold their porcelain and silver jewelry at crafts fairs and museums throughout the northeast until Gary's death October 21, 2010. Since then Jennifer has studied with the poet Leonard Gontarek and is a member of his Osage Poets group. She has read her work at Baltimore Avenue's Green Line Caf as one of "Nine Philadelphia Poets for Change" and at Philly Poetry Day. This is her first book of poems.