Elaine Harootunian Reardon's quiet words speak to the immense longing for peace and place that resonates in every human heart. She reminds us through deftly, gently constructed verse that our lives are the continuum of the ones who brought us here, that this is who we are, and that we best go forward in recognition of the love, courage and devotion of those who went before.

The overarching theme of Elaine Reardon's poetry chapbook, The Heart is a Nursery for Hope, is life, in all its quirkiness, from small moments in the day to life changing events.

Reardon's poems are elegiac in the unfolding of life in its multitudinous everydayness. Here you find her immigrant parents' pasts expressing themselves in the everyday habits and rituals of "old country"