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Joan Gelfand is REVIEWING NEW POETRY COLLECTIONS for poetrymagazine.com
Joan Gelfand’s reviews, stories and poetry have
appeared in national and international literary journals and magazines including
Rattle, Prairie Schooner, Kalliope,
California Quarterly, the Toronto Review, Marsh Hawk Review
and Levure
Litteraire.
Joan has been a featured
reader and speaker in the United States and Mexico including Bowery Poetry Club,
the Southern Festival
of Books, The Public Library of New York, and
Litquake. Development Chair of the Women’s National Book Association, a member
of the National Book Critics Circle and a juror for the Northern California Book
Awards, Joan blogs for the Huffington Post and coaches writers.
“The Ferlinghetti School of Poetics,” a poetry film
based on Joan’s poem was featured at the 4th
Annual Video Poetry Festival in Athens, Greece and will be shown in a juried art
show at the International Association for the Study of Dreams.
She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Adam Hertz
and two beatnik kitties – Jack Kerouac and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.