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Blood Honey reviewed in TLS

chana — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:17:00 +0000

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.”

Persimmon Tree feature

chana — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:12:57 +0000

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.

Two terrific reviews of Blood Honey have just appeared!

chana — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:26:46 +0000

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.

Reading at University of Texas, San Antonio

chana — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:15:45 +0000

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

Reading at Jewish Community Center, Houston, TX

chana — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:15:07 +0000

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

Reading at BJE Jewish Community Library, SF

chana — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:14:27 +0000

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

Book launch for Hovering at a Low Altitude:

chana — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:13:22 +0000

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