Special Event!

Sanctuary:

A Reading of Poetry and Fiction

by Acclaimed Authors and Poets

to benefit the IYYUN Center

 

 

Please Join Us:

Sunday, June 3rd at 7:30 pm

at the IYYUN Center
650 Sackett Street
(between 3rd and 4th Avenue, Brooklyn)

Light refreshments will be served

Suggested Donation: $18

Authors and Poets include:

• Allan Appel
• Beth Bosworth
• Marc Kaminsky
• Dennis Nurkse
• Mark Solomon

All the presenters have been studying Torah with Rav Pinson for the past 7 years. They have come together to sponsor and offer this incredible and unique program, to benefit the IYYUN Center and its new building in Brooklyn. This is a rare opportunity to experience the poetry and fiction that you love, being presented by their highly acclaimed authors.

for more information please write to us: http://iyyun.com/contact

About the Presenters:

Allan Appel:

Born in Chicago in 1946 and raised in Los Angeles, Allan Appel is a novelist, poet, and playwright whose books include Club Revelation, High Holiday Sutra, winner of a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, and The Rabbi of Casino Boulevard, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. His writing has appeared in The National Jewish Monthly, The Progressive, and National Lampoon, and his plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, New Haven, and Provincetown. He has published a total of six novels, a biography, two collections of poetry, a book on botany, and A Portable Apocalypse, a handy anthology of erudite and humorous quotations about the end of the world. Among his plays, Dear Heartsey, a staged adaptation of the letters of a colonial New Yorker, Abigail Franks, was commissioned by the American Jewish Historical Society, and was presented, starring Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach, at the Jewish Museum in New York, and at Queens College, City University of New York, and at Yale University. In 2003, Flight, a play about the perils of patriotism, was presented in a staged reading by the New England Academy of Theatre in New Haven.

 

Beth Bosworth:

Beth Bosworth is the author of A Burden of Earth and Other Stories and of the novel Tunneling. Her prose has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Seneca Review, Hanging Loose, The Forward, Guernica.com and elsewhere. A new collection, The Source of Life and Other Stories (Drue Heinz Literature Prize 2012), is forthcoming from the University of PIttsburgh Press.  Founding editor of The Saint Ann’s Review: A Journal of Contemporary Arts and Letters, Bosworth currently teaches at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn.

 

Marc Kaminsky:

Marc Kaminsky is a poet, writer, psychotherapist, and gerontologist whose work ranges from editing a study of life review called The Uses of Reminiscence to poetry like A Table With People and The Road from Hiroshima. He organized and conducted among the earliest writing and reminiscing groups for elders. He also did work on the culture of Yiddishkeit. He edited the work of Barbara Meyerhoff in Stories As Equipment for Living. His long poem, The Road from Hiroshima, was produced as a play for voices for National Public Radio and was the inspiration for other works including a musical requiem. His most recent book is Shadow Traffic, a collection of essays, poems and short stories that deals with the aftermath of the Holocaust as well as the aftermath of personal traumas.

 

Dennis Nurkse:

D. Nurkse is the author of ten books of poetry, including the forthcoming A NIGHT IN BROOKLYN. A former Brooklyn poet laureate, he is the recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

Mark Solomon:

Mark Solomon is a committed New Yorker, having lived in 4 of the 5 boroughs since birth with only a brief sojourn to Great Neck from 8th grade through his High School graduation in 1958. He holds a BA from Columbia College and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. His poems have been published since 1973 in many periodicals such as Broadway Boogie, Hanging Loose, TriQuarterly, Bomb, The Beloit Poetry Journal, and The Marlboro Review and in anthologies published by Milkweed Editions, Jason Aronson and Slapering Hol Press. His poems have also received recognition with the 1995 Wildwood Prize, the 1994 Florida Prize, and two honorable mentions for awards in 1994 from The Poetry Society of America. In 1995 his manuscript was a semi-finalist for the “Discovery”/The Nation Poetry Award.