“Memento Mori,” the poem and an audio recording, appeared in The New Yorker (November 16, 2015).
Natasha Trethewey selected “Beaux Arts” for the Sunday New York Times Magazine (August 23, 2015).
“The Joins” appeared in Best American Poetry 2015 as well as the Pushcart Prize Anthology XL.
Chana recorded a selection of her poems on Voetica.com.

Readings & Lectures

Monday, December 7, 2015, 7:00 pm
A Celebration of Yehuda Amichai
Robert Alter, Hana Amichai, Emanuella
Amichai, Chana Bloch & Chana Kronfeld
San Francisco Jewish Community Center
3200 California St at Presidio Ave, SF
Video

Monday, October 26, at 7 PM.
Distinguished Writers Series
Chana Bloch with Susan Terris
Biella Room, University Library
Cal State University, East Bay
25800 Carlos Bee Blvd, Hayward, CA 94542
Contact: Susan.gubernat@csueastbay.edu

Sunday, June 14, 2015, 3:00 pm
Autumn House Poets Reading
with Andrea Hollander and Danusha Lameris
Diesel Books, (510) 653-9965
5433 College Avenue at Kales, Oakland
Contact: Joyce Jenkins, editor@poetryflash.org

Thursday, May 21, 2015, 7:30-9:30 pm
Poetry Reading with Ellen Bass
JCC of the East Bay
1414 Walnut Street
Contact: Susan Felix: sdfelix@aol.com

Thursday, April 16, 2015, 7:30-9:30 pm
Poetry Reading with Maria Hummel
Marin Poetry Center
Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
Contact: Francesca Bell, events@marinpoetrycenter.org
Video

Sunday, March 15, 2015, 3:45-5:00 pm
“In the Fever of Love”: Translating Eros in the Bible
Conference: “Translation, Migration, Conversion:
New Directions in Jewish Bible Translation”
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
Contact: Naomi Seidman, nseidman@gtu.edu

Tuesday, March 10, 2015, 7:00-9:00 pm
Poetry reading: Chana and Her Students:
An Evening of Poetry and Celebration
Albany Library
1247 Marin Avenue, Albany, CA
Contact: Catherine Taylor, ctaylorwrite@gmail.com
Video

Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015, 7:30 pm
Poetry Flash Reading: Swimming in the Rain
Poems of Sex, Love, and Marriage
Moe’s Books, with Rusty Morrison
2476 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley
Contact: Joyce Jenkins, editor@poetryflash.org

Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, 7:30 pm
Poetry reading: Swimming in the Rain
Hammer Museum Reading Series
10899 Wilshire Blvd, L.A.
www.hammer.ucla.edu

Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015 7:00-9:00 pm
“The Song of Songs: The Biblical Garden of Eros”
VBS College of Jewish Studies
Congregation Valley Beth Shalom
15739 Ventura Blvd, Encino, CA 91436
Contact: Rabbi Ed Feinstein, (818) 788-6000

Monday, Feb, 9, 2015, 12:00-1:30 pm
“Border Crossings: Translating Yiddish and Hebrew”
Glatstein, I.B. Singer, Amichai, Ravikovitch
CJS Ross Seminar, UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
306 Royce Hall, UCLA
Contact: Vivian Holenbeck, vdios@humnet.ucla.edu

Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015, 5:00-7:00 pm
Berkeley launch: Swimming in the Rain
Morrison Library, UC Berkeley
Contact: Paul Hamburg, phamburg@library.berkeley.edu

Saturday, November 15, 2014, 3:00-5:30 pm
PEN West reading from
Living in the Land of Limbo
with Carol Levine and Ann Harleman
2671 Shasta, Berkeley 94708
Contact: Dorothy Gilbert, mariesnicewerewolf@gmail.com

Saturday, October 11, 2014, 1:45 pm
Litquake, San Rafael, CA
Open Secret Bookstore
923 C Street, San Rafael, CA
with Susan Cohen and Christina Hutchins
Contact: Christina Hutchins ckhutchins@juno.com

Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 7:00 pm
Chana Bloch and Naomi Shihab Nye
Poetry for Peace at the Rothko Chapel
Rothko Chapel, Houston, TX
3900 Yupon Street at Sul Ross
RVSP: rothkochapel.org