Zack Rogow

Zack Rogow (born 1952) is a poet, playwright, translator, and critic. He was born in New York City, and currently resides in San Francisco, U.S.A.

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• Zack rogow reading poetry on september 11 2011
• Zack rogow performs the only boy in ballet class
• References

Rogow is the author of eight books of poetry, including "Talking with the Radio: poems inspired by jazz and popular music" and My Mother and the Ceiling Dancers, both published by Kattywompus Press; and The Number Before Infinity, published by Scarlet Tanager Books. His translations from the French include works by George Sand, Andre Breton, Colette, and Marcel Pagnol. His co translation of Earthlight by Andre Breton received the 1994 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. His sequence of short poems, Airplane Tanka was a cowinner of the 2006 Tanka Splendor Award.

The anthologies that Rogow has edited include The Face of Poetry, a selection of work by contemporary U.S. poets with photos of the writers by Margaretta K. Mitchell, published by University of California Press. He also edited two volumes of the journal TWO LINES.

He has written four plays in a series about contemporary world writers. The plays concern the life and work of Leopold Sedar Senghor, Nazim Hikmet, Yosano Akiko, and Colette. The one-woman show about Colette had its first staged reading at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC in February 2015.

Rogow cofounded the Lunch Poems Reading Series at University of California, Berkeley with Professor Robert Hass and is the poetry editor of Catamaran Literary Reader.

He is an associate faculty member in the low-residency graduate writing program at the University of Alaska Anchorage.