Renée M. Schell’s poetry has appeared in Catamaran Literary Reader, Cæsura, On the Dark Path: An Anthology of Fairy Tale Poetry, Perfume River Poetry Review, and other journals, and online at literarymama.com. She holds a Magister degree from the University of Bonn and a PhD in German Studies from Stanford University. She is a freelance editor and translator from the German as well as a poetry editor for the Willow Glen Poetry Project and Red Wheelbarrow. Every year she celebrates Beethoven’s birthday with a few sonatas and a cake with candles. [Poetry]