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bio: Original work that appears in this Live Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. <lj-embed id="3" /> I am a poet, translator, book reviewer, and journalist. My interest in poetry was sparked in 12th grade by the Roman poet Catullus (see the Carl Sesar translation), particularly his contemporary conversational tone and his frank, sexual content and also by my Latin teacher's close reading of Virgil. I've written on and off ever since; on and off because for me poetry is the product of idleness--I have to have no other obligations or distractions. After a hiatus during junior and senior years of college I started writing poems again during my first time in graduate school, around the same time that I realized I had made a costly mistake and was studying the wrong field (International Affairs). After immigrating to Israel, marrying my wife Shoshana, returning to the USA, and holding a series of unrewarding jobs, I returned to graduate school in 1990 to study creative writing at CCNY and not only started writing again but getting published in quality periodicals. A few years ago I ran into a classmate from high school who remembered me as a class wit and there's a fair amount of humor in my poems, most of which tend to be narrative & dramatic rather than lyrical. At CCNY I earned an MA in creative writing and won the Academy of American Poets Prize. I am the author of two poetry collections, "Glued To The Sky" and "JFK: Lines of Fire" (PulpBits, 2003), and my poems are anthologized in XY Files: Poems On The Male Experience (Sherman Asher Publishing, 1997). PulpBits went out of business in 2007, but you can download copies of my two ebooks on my website. My translation of Israeli poet Rachel Eshed’s second book Havtachot Ktanot (Little Promises) is published by Mayapple Press. In its Hebrew original, this collection of intense erotic poetry won the 1992 AKUM prize in Israel. Novelist Tsipi Keller says, "It is h…
school: New Rochelle High School
school: State University of New York - Purchase College
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school: City University of New York, Hunter College
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school: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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New Rochelle High School
date start: 1969
date finish: 1972

State University of New York - Purchase College
date start: 1972
date finish: 1974

City University of New York - Lehman College
date start: 1974
date finish: 1974

City University of New York, Hunter College
date start: 1974
date finish: 1976

Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs
date start: 1977
date finish: 1979

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
date start: 1982
date finish: 1985

City University of New York, City College of New York
date start: 1990
date finish: 1992

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