Reading: Sharon Dolin, Lynn Melnick, Ira Sadoff

Sharon Dolin is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Imperfect Present (University of Pittsburgh Press,2022); a prose memoir Hitchcock Blonde (Terra Nova Press, 2020); and two books of translation from Catalan, most recently Late to the House of Words: Selected Poems by Gemma Gorga (Saturnalia Books, 2021), winner of Saturnalia Books Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize and a Finalist for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize. The recipient of an NEA Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, AWP Donald Hall Prize, Pushcart Prize, and Witter Bynner Fellowship, Dolin is Associate Editor of Barrow Street Press and teaches poetry workshops in New York City. https://sharondolin.com  Visit Sharon’s profile in Yetzirah’s Discover Jewish Poets database.

Lynn Melnick is the author of three poetry collections, including, most recently Refusenik, winner of the Julie Suk award, and a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She is also the author of the memoir, I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton. She teaches at Princeton University and Columbia University, and lives in Brooklyn with her family. You can find her at: https://www.lynnmelnick.com. Visit Lynn’s profile in Yetzirah’s Discover Jewish Poets database.

Ira Sadoff was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, in 1945. He is the prize-winning author of nine collections of poetry, most recently Country, Living (Alice James, 2021), Ira Sadoff Reader, History Matters: Contemporary Poetry on the Margins of American Culture, and more than three hundred poems, stories and essays in anthologies and magazines like The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, The Nation, and The New Republic. Recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, and the Poetry Society of America, he’s taught at the Iowa Writer’s workshop, the University of Virginia’s MFA program, Warren Wilson’s MFA program, Drew University’s MG+FA program, Hampshire College, Hobart and William Smith College (where he co-founded The Seneca Review), Antioch College (where he served as poetry editor of The Antioch Review) and Colby College, where he founded the creative writing program and served as the Arthur Jeremiah Roberts Professor of English.  Visit Ira’s profile in Yetzirah’s Discover Jewish Poets database.