
Jewish Poetry Series 4
May 24 | 7:00 pm
Free
![JAKE MARMER [he/him/his]](https://www.jccbuffalo.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/JAKE-MARMER.jpg)
JAKE MARMER [he/him/his]
poet | performer | educator
Jake Marmer is a poet, performer, and educator. He is the author of three poetry collections: Cosmic Diaspora (Station Hill Press, 2020), as well as The Neighbor Out of Sound (2018) and Jazz Talmud (2012), both from The Sheep Meadow Press. He also released two klez-jazz-poetry records: Purple Tentacles of Thought and Desire (2020, with Cosmic Diaspora Trio), and Hermeneutic Stomp (Blue Fringe Music, 2013). Jake is the poetry critic for Tablet Magazine. Born in the provincial steppes of Ukraine, in a city that was renamed four times in the past 100 years, Jake lives in the Bay Area.

Norman Finkelstein
poet | critic | Emeritus Professor of English
Norman Finkelstein is a poet, critic, and Emeritus Professor of English at Xavier University. His recent books include In a Broken Star (Dos Madres, 2021) and Like a Dark Rabbi: Modern Poetry and the Jewish Literary Imagination (Hebrew Union College Press, 2019). Widely published in the fields of modern poetry and Jewish literature, he currently writes and edits Restless Messengers, a poetry review blog.
Websites:
https://sites.google.com/site/normanfinkelsteinpoetry/
http://poetryinreview.com/

Erika Meitner
poet