
March 15: Rachel Abramowitz, Marcela Sulak, & Charles Bernstein
Rachel Abramowitz is the author of The Birthday of the Dead, winner of the 2021 Marystina Santiestevan prize from Conduit Books, the chapbooks Flea with Martyrdom, winner of the 2023 Baltic Writing Residency Chapbook Contest (Action, Spectacle) The Puzzle Monster, winner of the 2021 Tomaž Šalamun prize (Factory Hollow Press), and Gut Lust, winner of the 2019 Burnside Review prize (Burnside Review Press, 2020).
Marcela Sulak’s poetry includes The Fault, the National Jewish Book Awards finalist in poetry, City of Sky Papers (2021), Decency (2015), Immigrant (2010)—all from Black Lawrence Press–and the chapbook Of all the things that don’t exist, I love you best. Her lyric Memoir is Mouth Full of Seeds (2020). She’s co-edited Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres and translated five poetry collections from Czech, French, including the forthcoming Music of the Wide Lane: the Selected Poems of Sharron Hass, which was awarded a 2018 NEA Translation Fellowship, and Twenty Girls to Envy Me. Selected Poems by Orit Gidali (2016), which was long listed for the 2017 PEN Award for Poetry Translation. Sulak directs the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University and is managing editor of The Ilanot Review.
Charles Bernstein’s newest book is The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies (University of Chicago Press). He won the 2019 Bollingen Prize for Near/Miss (Chicago, 2018) and lifetime achievement and the 2025 America Award for Lifetime Contribution to International Writing. His work was the subject of The Poetry of Idiomatic Insistences, edited by Paul Bové, the Fall 2021 issue of boundary 2. More at https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/bernstein/