Zack Rogow is an American poet, playwright, translator, and critic. He was born in

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, and currently resides in

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. Rogow is the author of nine books of poetry, including "Irreverent Litanies," from Regal House Publishing; and "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, André Breton, Colette, and Marcel Pagnol. His co-translation of ''Earthlight'' by André Breton received the 1994

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. 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 fourth in this series, ''Colette Uncensored'', a one-woman show about the French writer Colette, was coauthored by actress, Lorri Holt. Holt played the part of Colette when the play had its first staged reading at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC in February 2015, and again when the play ran at The Marsh in San Francisco and Berkeley, California, in 2016 and 2017, and in London at the Canal Café Theatre in 2018. The other plays in the series concern the life and work of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Nazim Hikmet, and Yosano Akiko. Rogow cofounded the Lunch Poems Reading Series at

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with Professor Robert Hass and is a contributing editor of ''Catamaran Literary Reader''.

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Zack Rogow
. Thirteen Ways. Retrieved on September 17, 2011.
"Interview with Writer, Translator, & Editor Zack Rogow."
Words with Writers. Retrieved on November 22, 2011.

YouTube reading by Zack Rogow. Retrieved on May 4, 2016. {{DEFAULTSORT:Rogow, Zack 1952 births Living people 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights American male poets Writers from New York City California College of the Arts faculty University of Alaska Anchorage people American male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American male writers

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