Phoenix Reading Series @ Left Bank Books Sunday, October 26, 2014 6:30--8 pm (PROMPT START) 17 8th Avenue—Near West 12th Street NY, NY 10014 212-924-5638 $5 Contribution ANNA HALBERSTADT, JILL HOFFMAN, STEVEN SCHER & OPEN READING Anna Halberstadt was born and raised in Vilnius, a city, that for centuries had been on the crossroads of many different languages and cultures. She studied psychology at Moscow State University and she immigrated from the FSU twelve years later. Halberstad is a psychologist and social worker with many publications in her field the adaptation of immigrants and cross-cultural psychology. She has found that poetry turned out to be a more adequate and condensed way for her to continue the same themes that she touched upon in her writing as a psychologist—growing up as a child of Holocaust survivors in a country that still is struggling with the past trauma, living in three countries—Lithuania, Russia, US, immigration, and of course, the eternal poetry themes—love, loss, death, communications or theirabsence in our lives. Halberstadt has studied with Saskia Hamilton, Ariana Raynes, and Eileen Myles. Her creative work has been published by Cimarron Review, Permafrost, Mudfish, Alembic, St. Petersburg Review, Tiferet, Forge, The Good Men Project, Amarillo Bay, Crack the Spine, Bluestem, Rio Grande Review, Clouwalk , Literary Imagination (Oxford University Press) as well appearing in translation in the Lithuanian journals Literatura ir Menas and Shiaures Athenai. She is a finalist in the Mudfish 2013 contest. Her collection of poems ”Vilnius Diary” came out in the Mudfish individual poets series in summer 2014. Jill Hoffman started out as a poet. After graduating from Bennington College, she received an M.A. from Columbia University, a Ph.D. from Cornell University, and in 1974-75, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. She has had a long teaching career as an Assistant Professor of Renaissance Literature, English Poetry, and Creative Writing at Brooklyn College in the Master’s Program with John Ashbery, at Bard College, Columbia University (School of General Studies), Barnard College, Women’s College of the University of North Carolina, The New School, and now Jill Hoffman’s Mudfish Workshop in New York, where she teaches fiction and poetry writing. Hoffman published many poems in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Paris Review and a multitude of other magazines before starting her own journal of art, fiction and poetry, Mudfish (Box Turtle Press), in 1984. Mudfish18 is about to go to press. Her book, Mink Coat (poems) was published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1973 (The New York Times review said all hits, no misses) and her first novel, Jilted was published by Simon and Schuster in 1993 and was translated into Japanese (Cosmopolitan called her a female Henry Miller). She has completed two additional novels, Stoned, and Topless and is presently seeking an agent. Steven Sher moved from New York City to Jerusalem in 2012. He has taught at many universities since 1977 (e.g., Brooklyn College [where he also studied with John Ashbery during his MFA], Yeshiva University, Oregon State University, University of Oregon, Willamette University, Western Oregon University, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, Spalding University, Manhattan College), led many workshops (e.g., Poets House, The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, Poets House, San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival, Coos Head Writers Workshop, Tumble Words, Catskill Poetry Festival, The Rural Readers Project [poetry in the schools], NEA’s Creativity & Aging Initiative) and lectured widely on writing. His writing (primarily poetry; short fiction, folktales, satire and features) has appeared in hundreds of publications worldwide and in 14 books including, most recently, Grazing on Stars: Selected Poems (Presa Press, 2012) and The House of Washing Hands, about Jewish life in the Pacific Northwest, where Steven lived for 20 years (Pecan Grove Press, 2014). Themes explored in his poetry include prayer and ritual, finding the holy in the mundane, and our relationships--to each other and to nature. Some of the publications that have accepted his work include Confrontation, European Judaism, The Georgia Review, The Greenfield Review, The Jerusalem Review, Kansas Quarterly, The Louisville Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Mudfish, The Nebraska Review, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, Santa Barbara Review, Solo, Talking River Review, Tar River Poetry, Tiferet, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Witness. His work has been featured by Symphony Space (Selected Shorts) and Poetry In Motion, and was an Oregon Book Awards finalist. Find out more about his writing at stevensher.net. HOST: Michael Graves is the author of Adam and Cain (Black Buzzard, 2006), In Fragility (Black Buzzard, 2011) and two chapbooks, Illegal Border Crosser (Cervana Barva, 2008) and Outside St. Jude’s (R. E. M. Press, 1990). His poem “Apollo to Daphne” appears in an anthology from Oxford University Press, Gods and Mortals (2,001) In two thousand four (2004), he received a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. Thirteen (13) of his poems appear in the James Joyce Quarterly. He has published scholarly-critical work on James Wright and organized a conference on Mr. Wright at Poets House in 2004. youtube/watch?v=HjGZeKfSW8g.... .
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