[At right: Rivka Fogel]. Join on us Thursday, February 24, for New Jewish Writing featuring Shahar Bram, Jessica Greenbaum, Bob Perelman, and Rivka Fogel (C'11) at 6:00 PM in our Arts Cafe. This program is sponsored by Zeek: a Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture, the Jewish Studies Program, and Writers Without Borders. Here's a profile of one of the presenters: Jessica Greenbaum was born in Brooklyn where she lives, finally. A graduate of Barnard College and an initiating graduate of the University of Houston's Writing Program, she has worked as a business reporter for Forbes Magazine, a researcher for The Anti-Defamation League's Civil Rights Division, an English Dept adjunct, and as an editor for a magazine-on-tape for people who are visually impaired. She is presently the chief domestic scientist for a family of husband and two teenage girls, and poetry editor of the Massachusetts based annual, upstreet. Her first book, Inventing Difficulty, won the Gerald Cable Prize, and poems from her second manuscript have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, Poetry, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, The Torah: A Woman's Commentary, CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly, Nextbook and . . . ZEEK. She is the founder of Foot Traffic Presents, which sells home-made muffins to passersby for charities benefiting girls and women in the third world (mostly), and which raised $1,500 in its first eleven weeks. Last year she was a runner-up to be Brooklyn's Poet Laureate, and that's a good thing because it sounds like it would have been the hardest of all her non-paying jobs to date. For more information, including profiles of all the presenters, click here.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
new jewish writing, coming up
[At right: Rivka Fogel]. Join on us Thursday, February 24, for New Jewish Writing featuring Shahar Bram, Jessica Greenbaum, Bob Perelman, and Rivka Fogel (C'11) at 6:00 PM in our Arts Cafe. This program is sponsored by Zeek: a Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture, the Jewish Studies Program, and Writers Without Borders. Here's a profile of one of the presenters: Jessica Greenbaum was born in Brooklyn where she lives, finally. A graduate of Barnard College and an initiating graduate of the University of Houston's Writing Program, she has worked as a business reporter for Forbes Magazine, a researcher for The Anti-Defamation League's Civil Rights Division, an English Dept adjunct, and as an editor for a magazine-on-tape for people who are visually impaired. She is presently the chief domestic scientist for a family of husband and two teenage girls, and poetry editor of the Massachusetts based annual, upstreet. Her first book, Inventing Difficulty, won the Gerald Cable Prize, and poems from her second manuscript have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, Poetry, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, The Torah: A Woman's Commentary, CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly, Nextbook and . . . ZEEK. She is the founder of Foot Traffic Presents, which sells home-made muffins to passersby for charities benefiting girls and women in the third world (mostly), and which raised $1,500 in its first eleven weeks. Last year she was a runner-up to be Brooklyn's Poet Laureate, and that's a good thing because it sounds like it would have been the hardest of all her non-paying jobs to date. For more information, including profiles of all the presenters, click here.
