 Featured Poet: Moshe Benarroch |
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| Moshe Benarroch was born in 1959 in Tetuan/Morocco, between Tangier and Gibraltar. He grew up in a mixture of cultures and languages, Spanish being his mother tongue, attending a French school, hearing the Arabic of the streets and praying in Hebrew. In 1972 He emigrated to Israel and lives since then in Jerusalem. Published books in Hebrew: The Immigrant's Lament (poetry) 1994. The Coming Book (prose) 1997. The Bread And The Dream (poetry) 1998, The Poetry Of The End Of The World (poetry), 1999. "Keys To Tetuan" (a novel), 1999. His poems and prose have been published in numerous publications in Israeli literary magazines, and international magazines, recently in: Ygdrasil, Ashville Poetry Review, Perihelion, Miller's Pond, Revue Europe, Etcetera, Jewish Currents, Emotions, Xero, The Poet's Guild Quarterly. |
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Ed Ochester's new book is SNOW WHITE HORSES: SELECTED POEMS, Autumn House Press (219 Bigham St., Pittsburgh, PA 15211), $14.95, available from the publisher or from Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble Forthcoming books include a chapbbook, COOKING IN KEY WEST (Adastra Press, 2000) and THE LAND OF COCKAIGNE (Story Line Press, 2001). He's published eight other books of poetry, and has published poems in American Poetry Review, POETRY, The Nation, Chiron Review, Pearl, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Mother Jones, Virginia Quarterly Review and many other magazines. He currently teaches in the MFA Program at Bennington College, co-edits the poetry magazine 5AM with Judith Vollmer, and lives in Appalachia in rural western Pennsylvania. |
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