The Poetry Night Reading Series is proud to welcome poet, translator, and educator Chana Bloch to the Bistro 33 stage on Wednesday, February 2nd at 8 P.M.
The subject of an entire panel at the most recent meeting of the Modern Language Association, Chana Bloch is the author of four books of poems: The Secrets of the Tribe, The Past Keeps Changing, Mrs. Dumpty, and Blood Honey. She is co-translator of the biblical Song of Songs and six books of contemporary Israeli poetry, including The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai and his magnum opus, Open Closed Open, and Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch. She is also the author of a critical study, Spelling the Word: George Herbert and the Bible.
The book awards of Chana Bloch include the Poetry Society of America’s Di Castagnola Award for Blood Honey, the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry for Mrs. Dumpty, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and the Book of the Year Award of the Conference on Christianity and Literature for Spelling the Word. Her work has appeared in many journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Field, Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New Yorker, Poetry and Threepenny Review, and has been reprinted in the Best American Poems, The Pushcart Prize, and other anthologies. She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, in poetry and in translation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Bloch now serves as poetry editor of Persimmon Tree, an online journal of the arts by women over sixty. She is a Professor Emerita of English at Mills College, where she taught for over thirty years and directed the Creative Writing Program.
Attendees are encouraged to arrive early at Bistro 33 to secure a seat, and to sign up for a spot on the Open Mic list. The Poetry Night Reading Series, hosted by Andy Jones and produced by Brad Henderson, occurs on the first Wednesday of the month at Bistro 33, and third Thursday of every month at the John Natsoulas Gallery, both at 8 P.M., with an open microphone segment at 9 P.M.
Who: Chana Bloch
What: The Poetry Night Reading Series
When: Wednesday, February 2nd, 8pm
Where: Bistro 33, at 226 F Street
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Note: Bryan Dietrich, originally scheduled to perform on February 2nd, will be unable to join us because of a family emergency. We are grateful to Chana Bloch for agreeing to step in to share her poetry with so little notice.
