Windows and a Looking Glass - Kolb, Deborah Kahan

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Résumé :
Deborah Kahan Kolb is a native New Yorker, born and raised in Brooklyn and currently living in the Bronx. Much of her poetry reflects the unique experiences and challenges of growing up in, and ultimately leaving, the insular world of Hasidic Judaism. Deborah earned her BA and MA degrees in English/Creative Writing from CUNY Queens College, where she served as editor of the Queens College Journal of Jewish Studies and was the recipient of the James E. Tobin Poetry Award, the Lois Hughson Essay Prize, and the Essay Prize in Holocaust/Genocide Studies. She earned her MS in School Administration and Supervision from Touro College, after which she served as principal of a private school for Jewish children of Central Asian descent. Deborah's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetica, Voices Israel, Veils, Halos & Shackles, The New Verse News, Tuck, Literary Mama, Poets Reading the News, 3 Elements Literary Review, and Rise Up Review, and has been selected as a finalist for the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Award. You can visit the author at: www.deborahkahankolb.com...

Biographie:
Deborah Kahan Kolb is a native New Yorker, born and raised in Brooklyn and currently living in the Bronx. Much of her poetry reflects the unique experiences and challenges of growing up in, and ultimately leaving, the insular world of Hasidic Judaism. Deborah earned her BA and MA degrees in English/Creative Writing from CUNY Queens College, where she served as editor of the Queens College Journal of Jewish Studies and was the recipient of the James E. Tobin Poetry Award, the Lois Hughson Essay Prize, and the Essay Prize in Holocaust/Genocide Studies. She earned her MS in School Administration and Supervision from Touro College, after which she served as principal of a private school for Jewish children of Central Asian descent. Deborah's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetica, Voices Israel, Veils, Halos & Shackles, The New Verse News, Tuck, Literary Mama, Poets Reading the News, 3 Elements Literary Review, and Rise Up Review, and has been selected as a finalist for the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Award. You can visit the author at: www.deborahkahankolb.com...

Sommaire:
Deborah Kahan Kolb was born and raised in an insular Hasidic community in Brooklyn, NY, and many of the poems featured in her debut chapbook Windows and a Looking Glass are reflective of her strict religious upbringing. Ultimately, she left the constraints of the community and has written poetry informed not only by her uniquely challenging past, but also by family and community, marriage and children, and shared histories and experiences. Windows and a Looking Glass is the poet&rsquo...