When “Broken Circles: A Gathering of Poems for Hunger” was published in September, Doug Johnson, the Publisher of Cave Moon Press encouraged poets in the anthology to organize benefits to raise money for their local food banks. In October, Jenny Holland (musician, playwright and teacher) Emily Klion (Director of the Marsh Youth Theater) and myself [...]
From the just out Vanity Fair: “Hot Type” “The incomparable Don DeLillo’s debut story collection, The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories (Scribner’s) was only 30 years in the making. (Not to mention several novels published in those 30 years – my note.) That doesn’t seem crazy to me at all. The Europeans and Africans celebrate them [...]
“A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities” San Francisco Bay Press, Virginia/San Francisco: 2009
In her second full-length poetry collection, Joan Gelfand explores the poignancy of living in a world that is war-torn and environmentally damaged. With a nod to the humorous paradox of modern life, Gelfand writes from the vantage point of a mother, an artist, and a Zen meditator. “A Dreamer’s Guide…” looks beyond the surface of our lives at the connections that make live worth living, and the sensual details that color it. Read More
Seeking Center: A Collection of Poems by Joan Gelfand, Two Bridges Press, Richmond CA: 2006
In Seeking Center, Joan Gelfand joins the reader in a free-wheeling discussion, beyond the poems themselves, regarding what is poetry today, here at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Read More