Two New Orleans based writers–poet and dreamworker Rodger Kamenetz and fiction writer Moira Crone–join forces with East Bay native and recent returnee Ariel Resnikoff for a speculative set of their latest work. All three of them habitually push hard on boundaries, whether it’s the divide between conscious and subconscious life or the linguistic borders dividing cultures.
Rodger and Moira both taught writing at LSU in Baton Rouge for many years. Ariel is finishing up a PhD at Penn, where he has been very active as a teacher and a multilingual editor and translator.
Author of seven works of fiction, Moira Crone has won distinction for her short stories, novels, and her speculative fiction. In 2009 she received the Robert Penn Warren Award from the Southern Fellowship of Writers for the body of her work. Her 2014 novel THE ICE GARDEN, a coming of age tale set in the 1960’s South, won the Independent Booksellers Regional Gold Medal and was hailed by author Lee Smith, as “a heart-stopper.” Her 2012 dystopian THE NOT YET, set in a drowned Louisiana in 2121, was one of seven finalists for the international Philip K. Dick Award, for sci-fi paperback of the year. She has received fellowships from the NEH, the NEA, Bunting Institute at Harvard-Radcliffe, and other institutions. Her works have been selected for the prize anthology New Stories from the South: The Year’s Bestfive times, have appeared in two dozen anthologies, and in such magazines as The New Yorker, Mademoiselle, TriQuarterly, Oxford American, Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Image. She lives in New Orleans.
Poet, author, essayist, biographer, religious thinker and dreamwork practitioner, Rodger Kamenetz is probably best known for his breakthrough account of Jewish-Buddhist dialogue, The Jew in the Lotus. A serious student of dreams since 1999, his The History of Last Night’s Dream was featured on Oprah Winfrey’s Soul Series. His poems have appeared in hundreds of periodicals and 25 anthologies. His previous books of poetry include The Missing Jew, Stuck, The Lowercase Jew, and To Die Next To You. YONDER is his seventh collection. Kamenetz lives in New Orleans where he practices Natural Dreamwork. Visit him at kamenetz.com or thenaturaldream.com
Ariel Resnikoff is a poet, translator, editor & teacher. His most recent works include Ten-Four: Poems, Translations, Variations (Operating System 2015), with Jerome Rothenberg, & Between Shades (Materialist Press 2014). With Stephen Ross, he is at work on the first critical bilingual edition of Mikhl Likht’s modernist Yiddish long poem, Processions; and with Lilach Lachman and Gabriel Levin, he is translating the collected writings of the translingual-Hebrew poet, Avot Yeshurun. Ariel is a contributing editor of Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury, forthcoming ‘19), an anthology of multilingual modernist source texts, as well as a commissioning editor at Jacket2. His writing has been translated into French & Spanish and is forthcoming in German in a special issue of Schreibheft.
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Tikkun reviews To Die Next to You
Posted in Reviews with tags Emily Warn, Michael Hafftka, Rodger Kamenetz, Tikkun, To Die Next to You on April 29, 2014 by 6GPress
Emily Warn says some nice things about the Kamenetz-Hafftka collab To Die Next To You in the latest Tikkun.
Kamenetz and Hafftka’s collaboration feels markedly different to me than other poetry-visual art projects, perhaps, in part, because Hafftka’s work is a direct response to Kamenetz’s poems, a way of working that is anathema to many poets and painters who team up but only want their art to relate obliquely. Kamenetz’s poems and Hafftka’s drawings, on the other hand, play off one another, not as sequential, competing riffs in jazz do, but as cello chords, reverberating and diminishing into settled or unsettling silence.
Read the whole thing here.
10/24 To Die Next to You in NYC & SWOM#6 @ Biddle’s Escape
Posted in Events, New Releases, Reviews with tags Biddle's Escape, Carolyne Whelan, Columbia University, Daniel Shapiro, Jason Baldinger, Liel Leibovitz, Michael Hafftka, Nikki Allen, Rodger Kamenetz, SWOM#6, Tablet Magazine, To Die Next to You on October 24, 2013 by 6GPressTONIGHT at 8PM at Columbia University 501 Schermerhorn,
| Join Rodger Kamenetz and Michael Hafftka to celebrate the publication of To Die Next To You, a book of poems and drawings from Six Gallery Press. Readings, music, slides and a dialogue between poet and artist are all part of the mix. |
Here are some nice things Liel Leibovitz said about the book in Tablet Magazine.
ALSO TONIGHT at 7PM at Biddle’s Escape in Pittsburgh:
10/16 Rodger Kamenetz @ Cafe Istanbul
Posted in Events, New Releases with tags Cafe Istanbul, Don Paul's Poetry Ball 6, Melinda Palacio, Moira Cronin, New Orleans, Rodger Kamenetz, Shedrick White, To Die Next to You on October 16, 2013 by 6GPressTONIGHT at 7:30, Rodger Kamenetz & three other poets will perform at Cafe Istanbul as part of Don Paul‘s Poetry Ball 6. If you’re in New Orleans & want to hear some poetry (&/or spit some at the open mic), hit this up!
10/14 Henry Shuckman & Rodger Kamenetz @ Collected Works Bookstore
Posted in Events, New Releases with tags Collected Works Bookstore, Henry Shukman, Michael Hafftka, Rodger Kamenetz, To Die Next to You on October 14, 2013 by 6GPressTODAY at 6PM at Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe , Henry Shukman & Rodger Kamenetz will demolish & inspire you. Sometimes even simultaneously,
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