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Thanks so much to writer and psychoanalyst Emmanuelle Malhappe for her insightful guest blog, "Masculine and Feminine in The Odyssey." Emmanuelle talks about how Penelope and Ulysses embody two essential principles that together make a complete human being.
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Emmanuelle Malhappe on Masculine and Feminine in The Odyssey
This guest blog is by Emmanuelle Malhappe , French poet, short story author, playwright, and psychoanalyst. For a longer bio, please see bel...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Thanks so much to writer and psychoanalyst Emmanuelle Malhappe for her insightful guest blog, "Masculine and Feminine in The Odyssey." Emmanuelle talks about how Penelope and Ulysses embody two essential principles that together make a complete human being.
zackrogow.blogspot.com/2025/11/emma...
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Please join us in San Francisco on Dec. 7, for a celebration of June Jordan and the new collection of writings on her work and life, This Unruly Witness. At the Howard Zinn Bookfair, City College of San Francisco, 1125 Valencia St. room 320, 2:30 to 4 pm.
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Zinn Book Fair
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November 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Please join us in San Francisco on Dec. 7, for a celebration of June Jordan and the new collection of writings on her work and life, This Unruly Witness. At the Howard Zinn Bookfair, City College of San Francisco, 1125 Valencia St. room 320, 2:30 to 4 pm.
www.zinnbookfair.org/panel/this-u...
www.zinnbookfair.org/panel/this-u...
Recently I heard a talk by Hungarian writer Dániel Levente Pál on "The Three Types of Poets." I found it so thought-provoking and insightful that I asked if he'd let me post it as a guest blog, which I've now done. zackrogow.blogspot.com/2025/11/dani...
Dániel Levente Pál on the Three Types of Poets
This is a guest blog by contemporary writer Dániel Levente Pál , one of the most internationally recognized Hungarian poets and creative art...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Recently I heard a talk by Hungarian writer Dániel Levente Pál on "The Three Types of Poets." I found it so thought-provoking and insightful that I asked if he'd let me post it as a guest blog, which I've now done. zackrogow.blogspot.com/2025/11/dani...
Thank you, Mary Mackey, celebrated writer, for the interview we did on your latest poetry collection, In This Burning World. Mary explains how she deftly switches speakers in these poems, from a goddess to an elderly woman hoping her partner stays on Earth.
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Interview with Mary Mackey: In This Burning World
This blog is an interview with award-winning author Mary Mackey: poet, novelist and nonfiction writer. Mary Mackey Zack Rogow: On reading y...
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September 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Thank you, Mary Mackey, celebrated writer, for the interview we did on your latest poetry collection, In This Burning World. Mary explains how she deftly switches speakers in these poems, from a goddess to an elderly woman hoping her partner stays on Earth.
zackrogow.blogspot.com/2025/09/inte...
zackrogow.blogspot.com/2025/09/inte...
Don't miss Colette Uncensored Oct. 1 @ 7pm @sierratheatrecompany the 1-woman show about the trailblazing French author Colette. Performed by Bay Area star Lorri Holt & co-written by Zack Rogow. sierratheatrecompany.thundertix.com/orders/new?p...
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September 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Don't miss Colette Uncensored Oct. 1 @ 7pm @sierratheatrecompany the 1-woman show about the trailblazing French author Colette. Performed by Bay Area star Lorri Holt & co-written by Zack Rogow. sierratheatrecompany.thundertix.com/orders/new?p...
Thanks to the website Translators Aloud for featuring a reading I did from my new book, The Water Drinkers and Other Sketches of Paris in the Romantic Era by Henry Murger, the writer who inspired La Bohème. To order the book, please the website of Black Widow Press.
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Zack Rogow reads from Henry Murger's THE WATER DRINKERS (Black Widow Press, 2025)
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September 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Thanks to the website Translators Aloud for featuring a reading I did from my new book, The Water Drinkers and Other Sketches of Paris in the Romantic Era by Henry Murger, the writer who inspired La Bohème. To order the book, please the website of Black Widow Press.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZZH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZZH...
Composer Skyler Baysa created a duet inspired by my poem, "Domino Days." I like the music, and I think it resonates with the emotions in the poem, and it does so much more. Strong performances by pianist Eric Zivian and cellist Tanya Tompkins. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V27P...
Sunset on the Cliffs for cello and piano (2025)
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August 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Composer Skyler Baysa created a duet inspired by my poem, "Domino Days." I like the music, and I think it resonates with the emotions in the poem, and it does so much more. Strong performances by pianist Eric Zivian and cellist Tanya Tompkins. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V27P...
Poets, have you ever puzzled over how to graduate from writing individual poems to a full-length collection? The latest post on my blog is a conversation with Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet on how to make that leap. I think you'll find it insightful and informative.
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Putting Together a Poetry Manuscript: A Conversation with Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet
This blog is an interview with poet and teacher Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet. Zack Rogow: What’s the biggest difference between writing poems ...
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August 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Poets, have you ever puzzled over how to graduate from writing individual poems to a full-length collection? The latest post on my blog is a conversation with Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet on how to make that leap. I think you'll find it insightful and informative.
zackrogow.blogspot.com/2025/07/putt...
zackrogow.blogspot.com/2025/07/putt...
What possessed me today to research the doowop ballad “He’s So Fine”? Written by Ronnie Mack who grew up in Harlem. He assembled The Chiffons to record it. He died at age 23 the year the song went #1. Strange coincidence: he was born July 11, 1940.
July 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
What possessed me today to research the doowop ballad “He’s So Fine”? Written by Ronnie Mack who grew up in Harlem. He assembled The Chiffons to record it. He died at age 23 the year the song went #1. Strange coincidence: he was born July 11, 1940.
Thank you to the literary magazine The Courtship of Winds and editor William Ray for publishing two recent poems of mine: "The Art of Selective Forgetting," and "The Secrets We Take to the Grave."
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July 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Thank you to the literary magazine The Courtship of Winds and editor William Ray for publishing two recent poems of mine: "The Art of Selective Forgetting," and "The Secrets We Take to the Grave."
www.thecourtshipofwinds.org/zack-rogow
www.thecourtshipofwinds.org/zack-rogow
Please join me for Jewish Women Writers of Argentina May 4 @ 2pm as part of the @jewishartsbookfest @themagnes in Berkeley CA. Featured are the work of poet Irene Gruss & fiction writers Liliana Heker and Ana Ana María Shua. Organized by the Yiddish Theatre Ensemble.
April 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Please join me for Jewish Women Writers of Argentina May 4 @ 2pm as part of the @jewishartsbookfest @themagnes in Berkeley CA. Featured are the work of poet Irene Gruss & fiction writers Liliana Heker and Ana Ana María Shua. Organized by the Yiddish Theatre Ensemble.
I love wisteria season in Berkeley!
March 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I love wisteria season in Berkeley!
Many thanks to the Jewish Literary Journal for publishing my short story "A Good Find." It's a grown-up fairy tale about a feisty old man who finds a magical book in a Little Free Library. jewishliteraryjournal.com/fiction/a-go...
A Good Find – Zack Rogow
One shining autumn afternoon, Zilber was taking his retiree’s daily stroll through the Berkeley neighborhood where he lived, the streets crunchy with leaves. Another goddamn beautiful day in Califo…
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March 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Many thanks to the Jewish Literary Journal for publishing my short story "A Good Find." It's a grown-up fairy tale about a feisty old man who finds a magical book in a Little Free Library. jewishliteraryjournal.com/fiction/a-go...
The latest post on my blog is an interview with the wonderful poet Joan Larkin about her new collection, Old Stranger. Joan makes many insightful observations. zackrogow.blogspot.com/2025/03/inte...
Interview with Poet Joan Larkin about Her Book Old Stranger
Joan Larkin ’s sixth book of poems is Old Stranger (Alice James Books 2024). Her previous work includes My Body: New and Selected Poems , w...
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March 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The latest post on my blog is an interview with the wonderful poet Joan Larkin about her new collection, Old Stranger. Joan makes many insightful observations. zackrogow.blogspot.com/2025/03/inte...
The latest post on my blog is about the power and shades of meaning of a single word. It's a charming and thoughtful meditation on the word "Yes" by the Italian writer Federico Roncoroni.
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“Yes”—The Power of a Single Word, by Federico Roncoroni
This charming and thoughtful essay is an excerpt from the Italian writer Federico Roncoroni ’s book Words: A Private Dictionary [ Parole: Un...
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February 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The latest post on my blog is about the power and shades of meaning of a single word. It's a charming and thoughtful meditation on the word "Yes" by the Italian writer Federico Roncoroni.
zackrogow.blogspot.com/2025/02/yest...
zackrogow.blogspot.com/2025/02/yest...
On this day of razor ironies, when Trump is sworn in on MLK Day, I think of the words of Dr. King:
"How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever....
How long? Not long,
Because the arc of the moral universe is long,
but it bends toward justice."
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"How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever....
How long? Not long,
Because the arc of the moral universe is long,
but it bends toward justice."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAYI...
How Long? Not Long!
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January 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
On this day of razor ironies, when Trump is sworn in on MLK Day, I think of the words of Dr. King:
"How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever....
How long? Not long,
Because the arc of the moral universe is long,
but it bends toward justice."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAYI...
"How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever....
How long? Not long,
Because the arc of the moral universe is long,
but it bends toward justice."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAYI...
The most recent post on my blog is about the braided poem, a type of verse that twines together disparate strands of narrative and imagery in a metaphoric connection. zackrogow.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...
The Braided Poem
In recent decades, the braided poem has opened dynamic possibilities for writers and readers. The current wave of braided poems began with t...
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January 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The most recent post on my blog is about the braided poem, a type of verse that twines together disparate strands of narrative and imagery in a metaphoric connection. zackrogow.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...
I'm honored to be in the anthology In the Footsteps of a Shadow: North American Literary Responses to Fernando Pessoa. Pessoa was a fascinating figure in modernism, publishing under 70 different identities who sometimes criticized one another's work.
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In the Footsteps of a Shadow | MadHat Press
Pre-OrderPraise for In the Footsteps of a ShadowThis lush florilegium of poetic evocations, variations, and inquiries is a beautiful testament to how fa...
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December 17, 2024 at 5:46 PM
I'm honored to be in the anthology In the Footsteps of a Shadow: North American Literary Responses to Fernando Pessoa. Pessoa was a fascinating figure in modernism, publishing under 70 different identities who sometimes criticized one another's work.
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Jerome Rothenberg, poet, translator, and anthologist passed away this year. Michael Palmer gave a moving tribute to him that I’ve now posted on my blog. zackrogow.blogspot.com
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December 13, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Jerome Rothenberg, poet, translator, and anthologist passed away this year. Michael Palmer gave a moving tribute to him that I’ve now posted on my blog. zackrogow.blogspot.com
Latest blog post: The Problem of the Unsympathetic Main Character. ”Stories allow us to empathize... Empathy is not only a fundamental human trait, it’s also a pleasure. When a writer denies that to readers, they feel thwarted and even neglected.’’
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The Problem of the Unsympathetic Main Character
Quick!—think of a novel, movie, or play with an unsympathetic main character. It’s not easy, is it? There aren’t many stories that fall into...
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December 9, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Latest blog post: The Problem of the Unsympathetic Main Character. ”Stories allow us to empathize... Empathy is not only a fundamental human trait, it’s also a pleasure. When a writer denies that to readers, they feel thwarted and even neglected.’’
zackrogow.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...
zackrogow.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...
Loved the Mary Cassatt art at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in Dan Francisco.
November 28, 2024 at 6:25 AM
Loved the Mary Cassatt art at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in Dan Francisco.