There’s a wonderful review of Blood Honey in the Times Literary Supplement. http://chanabloch.com/review-pdf/TLS_on_bloodhoney_2-5-10%20.pdf
It concludes: ”In Chana Bloch’s compressed work, a great deal goes on between the lines, including shifts in tonality as the seemingly light-hearted gives way to something much darker; still, its appetite for life is more than equal to the tragic underside of both the personal and the historical.”
Chana Bloch’s poetry is featured in the winter issue of Persimmon Tree, http://www.persimmontree.org/ an online journal of the arts by women over sixty. There’s a selection from her four books of poems, including her new collection, Blood Honey, along with a beautiful introduction, “Writing a Woman’s Life,” by Anita Barrows, her poetry buddy for 36 years.
Jake Marmor, “Chana Bloch’s ‘Blood Honey’: Where Abraham Meets Baba Yaga,” The Jewish Daily Forward (Nov. 20, 2009). http://www.forward.com/articles/118757/
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, “Late Love: Blood Honey by Chana Bloch,” Tikkun (Nov./Dec. 2009). http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/nov_dec_09_latelove
New poems are out in the fall/winter issues of Field, Tikkun, and Southern Poetry Review; prose in the fall Poet Lore and soon in the spring 2010 Poetry International.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 7:30 pm Poetry Reading
JPL 4.03.12 (Assembly Room), University of Texas, San Antonio
Contact: Wendy Barker wendy.barker@utsa.edu
Monday, November 2, 2009 12:00 noon Jewish Community Center,
Houston, TX
Jewish Book and Arts Fair / 5601 S. Braeswood / Houston, TX 77096
Contact: Marilyn Hassid mhassid@jcchouston.org (713) 729-3200 x3228
Thursday, October 1, 2009 7:30 pm BJE Jewish Community Library, SF
1835 Ellis Street / San Francisco, CA, 94115
Contact: Allison Green ajgreen@bjesf.org (415) 567-3327 ext 703
Sunday, May 3, 2009 6:45 pm Congregation Beth El, Berkeley, CA
Book launch for Hovering at a Low Altitude:
The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch
1301 Oxford Street, between Eunice & Rose, Berkeley