#poetandauthor

I went to high school with Elliot. We both took art clasess together. Elliot sat directly behind me for the duration of the class. By chance, when looking up classmates on the internet, I discovered that Elliot was a poet and author.

~ R.S.R.~

"ELLIOT RICHMAN has poems published in diverse periodicals. He has also authored seven books of poetry. In 1993, he was awarded fellowships for his poetry by both the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Among the books he's written are four full-length collections: "The World Dancer;" "Honorable Manhood: Poems of Eros & Dust" (From the First Persian Gulf War); "Walk on Trooper" (Vietnam War Poems) and "Franz Kafka’s Daughter Meets the Evil Nazi Empire!"

(This poster was posted by The ROTA Studio and Gallery on July 12, 2013)

PATTI TANA, is an author of 9 books of poetry. Tana grew up on the Hudson River in Peekskill, New York, and since 1968 she has made her home on Long Island. She is Professor Emerita of English at Nassau Community College (SUNY) and the Associate Editor of the Long Island Quarterly since it was founded in 1990. In 2009 Tana was selected as Poet Of The Year by the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association.

RACHEL HADAS - poet, professor, essayist, translator. Hadas studied classics at Harvard, poetry at Johns Hopkins, and comparative literature at Princeton. Since 1981 she's taught in the English Dept.of the Newark campus of Rutgers University, and has also taught at Columbia and Princeton, as well as serving on the poetry faculty of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the West Chester Poetry Conference. She's the author of many books of poetry, prose, translations, and a memoir.

RACHEL WETZSTEON, in memoriam. Rachel Wetzsteon studied at Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, and received her PhD from Columbia University. The author of three collections of poems: Sakura Park, Home and Away, and The Other Stars, Wetzsteon received an Ingram Merrill grant and the 2001 Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She also served as poetry editor for the New Republic, and she taught at William Paterson University at the time of her death.

SARAH HANNAH: In Memoriam.

Sarah Hannah was a published poet whose works appeared in in Parnassus, The Southern Review, Pivot, Barrow Street, Michigan Quarterly Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, and other journals. Hannah followed her critically acclaimed first volume of poetry, Longing Distance, with Inflorescence, a compelling memoir-in-verse for her mother, Hannah earned her MFA and PhD at Columbia University, and taught at Emerson College at the time of her death.

Jeanne Marie Beaumont

Kate Light