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Richard
Chess Director of the Creative Writing Program |
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| Education: Ph.D., University of Florida M.A., University of Florida B.A., Glassboro State College
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publications: Third Temple, University of Tampa Press 2007. Chair in the Desert, University of Tampa Press, 2000. TEKIAH University of Georgia Press 1994; University of Tampa Press 2002 "Meditation upon Waking in Elul," The Forward, September 2000 "Third Temple," The Forward, January 2001 "Meditation upon Waking in Elul" and "Therapy," Tampa Review, Fall 2000 "Revelation," published on Poetry Daily, www.poems.com "Unauthorized Haggadah," Jewish Books, www.jbooks.com "Resistance and Redemption: Reflections on Contemporary Poetry," www.jbooks.com "Original Light: Poetry Based on Biblical Texts," Alsop Review (www.alsopreview.com) |
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Personal statement: My third book, THIRD TEMPLE, was published in May 2007 by the University of Tampa Press. Information on the book and links to my work on-line can be found at www.richardchess.com. I have a recent short essay called "Klezmetrics," written to introduce my poem "Klezmer," both of which can be found on www.jbooks.com. I have recently become the poetry editor for Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture: www.zeek.net. A new essay of mine, "What About God?", will be published in Image (www.imagejournal.org) this fall, 2007, as part of its symposium on the question "Why I Believe in God." In the spring of 2007, I composed a poem for QuickMuse (www.quickmuse.com). I was paired with Marge Piercy. We each were given 15 minutes to compose a poem in response to the same prompt. The prompt came from playwright David Mamet's rabbi. I continue to enjoy teaching for the Bread Loaf School of English (http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blse/). I am also now the assistant director and member of the faculty of the Jewish Arts Institute at Elat Chayim (http://elatchayyim.org/jewisharts/), a two year program dedicated to advancing the evolution of Jewish arts education in the U.S. and abroad.
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