R284. Tikkun Olam: Jewish Poets on Mending the World
Thursday, March 8, 2018
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm
Participants
Robin Beth Schaer is the author of the poetry collection Shipbreaking, She has been a fellow at Yaddo, Djerassi, Saltonstall, and MacDowell. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Bomb, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She worked as a deckhand aboard the Tall Ship Bounty and teaches writing in Ohio.
Joy Katz’s latest poetry collection is All You Do Is Perceive. Her work in progress, White: An Abstract, attempts to document American whiteness. A former NEA fellow, Katz collaborates in the activist art collective Ifyoureallyloveme. She teaches at Carlow University.
Erika Meitner is the author of four books of poems, including Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls; Ideal Cities, which was a 2009 National Poetry Series winner; and Copia. She is an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she directs the MFA program in creative writing.
Rosebud Ben-Oni received a 2014 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry and a CantoMundo Fellowship in 2013. She is the author of Solecism, a poetry collection, and is an editorial advisor for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.
Sam Sax