MINE gallery in Fairfax
continues with its poetry and prose reading series. This month, on Sunday, October
27th, at 3pm, Stephen Kessler
will be reading poetry from his new book Scratch
Pegasus Swan (Scythe Press, 2013), and his new translation of Poems of Consummation by Vicente Aleixandre
(Black Widow Press, 2013). Alta Ifland
will be reading prose from her new works: Death-in-a-Box
(Subito Press 2011) and The Snail’s Song
(Spuyten Duyvil, 2011).
Stephen Kessler is a poet, prose writer, translator and the editor of The Redwood Coast Review. He received
the 2010 Harold Morton Landon Translation award from the Academy of American
Poets for his version of Desolation of the Chimera by Luis
Cernuda. His other recent books include Burning Daylight (poems), The
Tolstoy of the Zulus (essay), The Mental Traveler (novel), and The
Sonnets of Jorge Luis Borges (as editor and principal translator). He
is an author of a new book of poems, Scratch Pegasus (Swan Scythe Press,
2013), and a new translation of Poems
of Consummation by Vicente Aleixandre (Black Widow Press, 2013). Recent
publications (poems, essays, translations) include The American Poetry Review, New
American Writing, Harvard Review, Or, Catamaran, Agni and others. He lives
in Santa Cruz.
Alta Ifland
was born in Romania and emigrated to the United States in 1991. After teaching
French for ten years, she left academia and switched from French (her second
language) to English (her third language). Ifland is the author of two
collections of short stories: Elegy for a Fabulous World
(Ninebark Press, 2009) – which was a finalist fro the 2010 Northern California
Book Award – and Death-in-a-Box (Subito Press 2011) -which won the 2010 Subito
prize in fiction; and two collections of prose poems: Voix de Glace/Voice of Ice
(Les Figues Press, 2007) -written in French and translated herself into
English, winner of the 2008 French prize Louis Guillaume – and The
Snail’s Song (Spuyten Duyvil, 2011). She has received fellowships in
fiction from Wesleyan, MacDowell and Millay.
