Zack Rogow: Poet, Playwright, Translator, Educator
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Zack Rogow is the author, editor, or translator of more than twenty books or plays. His tenth book of poems, The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens and Other Poems on Aging, is now available from Valley Press in the UK. Zack’s memoir, Hugging My Father’s Ghost, about his writer dad, was released in 2024 by Spuyten Duyvil Publishing. His previous books of poetry include Irreverent Litanies, from Regal House. His play Colette Uncensored (coauthored with Lorri Holt) had its first public reading at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and has been staged in London, Catalonia, San Francisco, Indonesia, and Portland. His most recent book of translations is The Water Drinkers and Other Sketches of Paris in the Romantic Era by Henry Murger, the writer who inspired La Bohème. Zack is the editor of an anthology of poetry of the U.S.A., The Face of Poetry, from University of California Press. His song lyrics include “A Love for Just Part” recorded by Carrie Wicks. He has taught in several MFA creative writing programs, and serves as a contributing editor of Catamaran Literary Reader. Zack has received the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award in Translation, the Celestine Award for Poetry from Holy Names University, and the Tanka Splendor Award.
Zack is available for readings and for creative writing manuscript critiques. For further information and rates, please contact him at: zrogow AT berkeley DOT edu |