PoeMEMoir Volume 2: Hope Springs Internal is a second collection of poetry and other writing by Concord, Mass.-based psychotherapist, playwright, performance artist, and filmmaker Steven Allen Cadwell. The collection ranges from celebrating the joys of marriage to his husband, Joe, and coparenting their adopted now-grown son, Isaac; to life’s everyday blessings in nature and of family and friends; to the terror, hope, and coming-to-grips with a frightening medical diagnosis; and beyond to reflections on mortality and hope. Readers will laugh, cry, and marvel at Cadwell’s courage, clarity, playful fluency with the English language, and stunning resilience. The book’s bounty of illustrations–photos of leaves, flowers, and people, as well as striking watercolor paintings by San Francisco artist James Fishman–will please the eye as powerfully as the poems speak to the heart.