Associate Editor
Charles Fishman
With my art I oppose the cruelty and hypocrisy of the official history
[with]
the small, pure, helpless, but marvelous history of the individual
human
life. . .
—Magdelena Abakanowicz
Charles Fishman is director of the Distinguished Speakers Program at
SUNY
Farmingdale, where he previously directed the Visiting Writers Program
for
18 years. His books include Mortal Companions, The Firewalkers,
Blood
to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust, and The Death Mazurka,
which was selected by the American Library Association as one of the
outstanding books of the year (1989) and nominated for the 1990
Pulitzer
Prize in Poetry. He has received the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize from
Southern
California Anthology, the Eve of St. Agnes Poetry Prize from Negative
Capability, a fellowship in poetry from the New York Foundation for the
Arts, and numerous other awards and honors. He was final judge for the
1998
Capricorn Book Award and has recently served as Poetry Editor for the
Journal of Genocide Studies and Cistercian Studies Quarterly (following
Denise Levertov in that position). His 8th chapbook, Time Travel
Reports,
will be published by Timberline Press in 2002.
Director - Distinguished Speakers Program
SUNY Farmingdale
carolus@optonline.net
fishman@farmingdale.edu
New Links:
Side Reality
The Scream Online
Big City Lit
Pedestal Magazine
On the Page
Three Candles (a 52-page retrospective of earlier poems)
The Firewalkers, Mortal Companions, and a chapbook of recent work, In Spanish Light are available online at
http://www.write-on-line.co.uk/Frames/works.htm
Individual poems can be found online
:
Samsara Quarterly.
Kota Press
New Works Review
Switched-on
Gutenberg
The Poetry Porch
Recursive Angel
Books available at barnesandnoble.com:
CATLIVES; SARAH KIRSCH'S KATZENLEBEN
AS THE SUN GOES DOWN IN FIRE
DEATH MAZURKA: POEMS
MORTAL COMPANIONS
ZOOM
Blood to Remember: American Poets
on the Holocaust may be ordered online from the U.
S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
