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STEPHEN KESSLER AND ALTA IFLAND READ AT THE MINE
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.