Hannah Senesh beamed constant optimism as a writer, activist, and soldier. Her poem “Now,” which she wrote in 1938 at age 17 in her native Hungarian, encapsulates the creative impulse; that moment of bringing out something where there was nothing before. In a life cut short by war, Senesh used her life itself as her canvas.

"Now" by Hannah Senesh, translated by Peter Hay. Translation used by permission of Peter Hay.
Commissioned by the Children's Aid Society Chorus