Email [email protected] for access to the Zoom poetry workshop and all other links! About the Events:
Saturday, March 13, 2021 from 7:00 – 8:00 PM (PST): Join us for a poetry workshop about Nobel Prize-winner Louise Glück, hosted by Clark County Poet Laureate Heather Lang-Cassera!
Email for access. Learn more about Louise Glück here.
View the film HYAM PLUTZIK: AMERICAN POET now through March 31, 2021.
Free film link: Hyam Plutzik: American Poet
Learn more about Hyam Plutzik here.
Discussion of HYAM PLUTZIK: AMERICAN POET, featuring Bruce Isaacson and moderated by Joshua Abbey.
Watch the discussion here.
Join us for a pre-recorded interview and reading with Louise Glück, compiled and introduced by Gregory Crosby! Available now through March 31, 2021.
Watch the interview here.
JEWISH POETS: Renown and Unknown celebrates the historic achievement of Louise Glück receiving the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature, and raises awareness of Hyam Plutzik, whose work has become obscured over time. Email for access!
Presented by Poetry Promise, the Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival, and the Clark County Poet Laureate.
Saturday, March 13, 2021 from 7:00 – 8:00 PM (PST): Join us for a poetry workshop about the poetry of Nobel Prize-winner Louise Glück, hosted by Clark County Poet Laureate Heather Lang-Cassera!
Hyam Plutzik, the son of Russian Jewish emigrants, was the first Jewish professor at the University of Rochester and a recipient of a Pulitzer Prize nomination. The documentary explores the work of this significant but forgotten/neglected Jewish writer and features interviews with influential poets of the 20th-century, including Stanley Kunitz.
Bruce Isaacson earned degrees at Claremont McKenna, Dartmouth, and Brooklyn College, where he submitted a thesis to noted American poet Allen Ginsberg. He is publisher of Zeitgeist Press, with over 100 poetry titles to date, and sometimes associated with the Cafe Babar 1980s San Francisco Bay Area spoken word revival. He was the first Poet Laureate of Clark County, Nevada and is a founder of Poetry Promise, a non-profit created to advance the knowledge and practice of poetry.
Gregory Crosby is the author of several books and chapbooks. For more than a decade he worked as an art critic, columnist and cultural commentator in Las Vegas, where he served as a poetry consultant for the Cultural Affairs Division and was instrumental in the creation of the Poets Bridge public art project. He was awarded a Nevada Arts Council Fellowship in Literary Arts and won the 2006 Marie Ponsot Poetry Prize. He is an adjunct associate professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and teaches creative writing at Lehman College–CUNY.
Heather Lang-Cassera serves as Clark County Poet Laureate and was named 2017 “Best Local Writer or Poet” by the readers of Nevada Public Radio’s Desert Companion. She serves as an Editor for Tolsun Books, World Literature Editor for The Literary Review, and Guest Poetry Editor for Witness. Her poems have been published in literary journals, books, and chapbooks. At Nevada State College, Heather teaches College Success, Composition, and Creative Writing.
