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THE EMIGRANT

The Emigrant first featured on Brooklyn Poets social media, back in 2016. Now it's online at The Lake .

BROOKLYN POETS FELLOWSHIP

I'm super grateful and excited to share that I received a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship to study during the summer semester 2017 .

MOTHER IN CONFUSION AT LUNA LUNA

I'm thrilled to share that my poem Mother in Confusion was published today at Luna Luna Magazine .

APRIL 26, FEATURED POET

The Inspired Word NYC has invited me to read my poetry as a featured poet on April 26 at Hell Phone in Bushwick. Here's the link , come and listen to excerpts from my chapbook manuscript!

TWO POEMS IN: YES, POETRY

I'm very honored to have two poems published in Yes, Poetry today as a special feature, and for being included in this list of Five Jewish Women Poets at Kveller.com 

SHAARE TIKVAH (GATES OF HOPE), LISBON

My poem Shaare Tikvah (Gates of Hope), Lisbon is online today at Green Mountains Review.

WORMS/VERMAYZA, CIRCA 1978

My poem Worms/Vermayza, circa 1978, was published by in between hangovers. Read it here :)

POET OF THE WEEK

I'm honored and excited to be featured as Poet of the Week with Brooklyn Poets. Earlier this month, another poem was published on ReformJudaism.org Read it  here .

CHACHAPOYA - THE FORGOTTEN WARRIORS OF CARTHAGE

A documentary by Michael Gregor and produced by doc.station Hamburg about the origins and legacy of the Chachapoya tribe in Amazonia will air on Arte on March 8, 2014 (Chachapoya - Karthagos vergessene Krieger) and on PBS on April 2, 2014 (Secrets of the Dead). I did the line-producing for the New York shooting and interviewed one of the experts.

A very happy 2014!

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Love and the Cities

My friend Jessica Talbot has launched a website to accompany her book Hummingbird that she is about to finish. The site is dedicated to stories about finding a place called home, and she has invited me to contribute as a guest writer: Love and the Cities .

Revolte im Theatersaal

My latest translation hits the Kindle Single Store tomorrow: Revolte im Theatersaal (Wild in the Seats by James Wolcott) looks back on 100 years of Rite of Spring, in German.

TRANSLATION NEWS

I'm currently translating James Wolcott's Kindle Single The Gore Supremacy, his homage to Gore Vidal. My translations so far  - missing in this list is S.G. Redling's Flowertown plus the forthcoming thriller Blood Stained, by CJ Lyons.

Die Amerikanische Nacht

Für die deutschen Leser: Letzte Woche erschien der neue Roman von Marisha Pessl im S. Fischer Verlag. In New York war ich für die Organisation des Drehs von Trailer und diesem Online-Spiel mit verantwortlich:  Amerikanische Nacht I organized the shooting of the German trailer for Marisha Pessl's new book, Night Film, in New York.

TRANSLATION NEWS

My translation into German of S.G. Redling's "Flowertown" (Die Sperrzone) is now available on amazon.de Over the past months I've been translating Kindle Singles from Nelson DeMille, Rick Marin, Jonathan Biss, and Michael Famighetti.  I just started with Mark Obbie's "God's Nobodies - Misguided Faith and Murder in the Life of One American Family."

NEW PUBLICATION

My translation of Traci Hohenstein's thriller "Burn Out" (German title: Verschwunden in den Flammen) is now available on amazon.de!

SENDETERMIN ALASKA HERINGSFISCHER

Unsere Reportage Flüchtiges Silber - Die Heringsfischer von Bristol Bay" läuft am Freitag, 22.2. 2013 um 18:25 auf arte. Our documentary about the herring fishery in Bristol Bay, Alaska, airs this February on arte.

FILM REVIEW: THE IRAN JOB

Intimate, quiet, lyrical, and extremely powerful - the documentary The Iran Job is all of the above. Recently, this independently produced film portraying an American basketball player’s season with a club in Iran filled one of the theatres at the IFC Center for nearly three weeks, until Hurricane Sandy brought life in Lower Manhattan to a temporary halt. The great success among the public speaks for the documentary’s importance and validity and its brilliant, entertaining storytelling. Detailed and calm observations of human encounters, spontaneous moments that are allowed to breathe and unfold on screen, and an outwardly neutral yet sharp-eyed political perspective make this documentary debut an astounding one. Filmmaker Till Schauder produced the documentary together with his Iranian-American wife Sara Nodjoumi. He followed Kevin Sheppard, at the time a 29-year old basketball player from the US Virgin Islands, to the Iranian city of Shiraz, where Kevin was under ...

NEW DOCUMENTARY WORK

Our edit for our documentary about heringfishermen and yupik culture in the Bristol Bay area in Alaska brought me to Berlin for the summer. 2 more weeks to go and I'll be back in NYC!

NEW TRANSLATION WORK

I recently finished translating the fantastic long essay "Beethoven's Shadow" by Jonathan Biss for AmazonCrossing and am excited to see it published soon!