news & events

Poetry & translation

chana — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:10:06 +0000

Chana Bloch and Tess Gallagher read their poetry and translations at the Albany Library, Tuesday, November 8th at 7:00 pm. 1247 Marin at Masonic.

Jewish Literary Festival, 2011

chana — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 06:38:44 +0000

Upcoming events at Chautauqua, NY:
– Wed. July 20, 12:15-1:15 pm, “Learning from Translation”
Everett Jewish Life Center
– Thurs. July 21, 12:00 pm, Panel discussion,
with Jacqueline Osherow & Janice Eidus,
Everett Jewish Life Center
– Fri. July 22, 3:30 pm, Poetry reading,
Literary Arts Center, Alumni Hall

Learning from Translation

chana — Sun, 08 May 2011 21:39:03 +0000

Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lecture
6:30-9:00 pm, “Learning from Translation”
Morrison Reading Room, Doe Library
Reception follows in the Brown Gallery
University of California, Berkeley
Contact: Ray Lifchez lifchez@berkeley.edu

Poetry reading, Mills College

chana — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:30:45 +0000

The Mills College English Department and The Place for Writers
invite you to a special
Contemporary Writers Series reading
with Chana Bloch

Tuesday, April 5th, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Gathering Hall, Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business

Light hors d’oeuvres and dessert will be served at a reception following the reading.

Chana Bloch is Professor Emerita of English at Mills College, where she taught for more than 30 years and directed the Creative Writing Program. She is the author of award-winning books of poetry, translation, and scholarship.

RSVP by contacting Caitlin McGarty at cmcgarty@mills.edu or 510.430.2123.

“Jewish in America”: an MLA session on Bloch’s work

chana — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:07:45 +0000

There will be an MLA session devoted to Chana Bloch’s work, Saturday, Jan 8, 12:00-1:15 pm, at the JW Marriott Hotel, Platinum Salon B, 900 West Olympic Blvd (next to the LA Convention Center). Chana will be reading her own poetry as well as translations of the Song of Songs, Yehuda Amichai and Dahlia Ravikovitch.

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.