
Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet
Melissa Stein, Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, Susan Cohen, more
4 MAY 2014 — sunday
Poetry Flash presents a contributor's reading for Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry, featuring Susan Cohen, Lucille Lang Day, Julia B. Levine, Colleen McKee, Melissa Stein, and Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, request ASL interpreters one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org, wheelchair accessible, Diesel, A Bookstore, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 3:00 (510/653-9965, dieselbookstore.com)
MORE ABOUT THE READERS
This celebration for the Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry features a reading by contributing poets Susan Cohen, author of Throat Singing; Lucille Lang Day, Curvature of Blue; Julia B. Levine, Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight; Colleen McKee, 9 Kinds of Wrong; Melissa Stein, Rough Honey; and Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, Tulips, Water, Ash. The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry, edited by Deborah Ager and M. E. Silverman, includes the work of more than one hundred poets offering fascinating insights into Jewish culture, religion, and identity. Among the anthologies other contributors are Ellen Bass, Charles Bernstein, Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, David Lehman, Ira Sadoff, and Philip Schultz.

