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Philip Ter­man

Philip Ter­man the author of five full-length col­lec­tions of poet­ry, most recent­ly, Our Por­tion: New and Select­ed Poems (Autumn House Press). His poems appear in numer­ous jour­nals and antholo­gies, includ­ing Poet­ry Mag­a­zine, The Keny­on Review, Poet­ry Inter­na­tion­al, the Sun Mag­a­zine,  The Blooms­bury Anthol­o­gy of Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Amer­i­can Poet­ry, Extra­or­di­nary Ren­di­tion: Amer­i­can Poets on Pales­tine, and 99 Poets for the 99 Per­cent. With the Syr­i­an writer Saleh Raz­zouk, he has trans­lat­ed con­tem­po­rary Ara­bic poets. Those trans­la­tions have appeared in Poet­ry Lon­don, Crazy Horse, and a chap­book by the poet Syr­i­an Riad Saleh Hus­sein in the Mid-Amer­i­can Review. He also col­lab­o­rates with oth­er artists. With a painter James Stew­art and book­binder Susan Frakes, he has pro­duced two hand-sewn chap­books, and he has writ­ten three can­tatas with the com­pos­er Dr. Brent Reg­is­ter. As well, he per­forms his poet­ry with the jazz quar­tet Catro. He found­ed the Chau­tauqua Writ­ers Fes­ti­val, directs The Bridge Lit­er­ary Arts Cen­ter in Franklin, PA, and teach­es cre­ative writ­ing and lit­er­a­ture at Clar­i­on Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia. More infor­ma­tion can be found at www​.philipter​man​.com. 

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This Crazy Devotion
Philip Ter­man
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Writ­ing Jewish

Philip Ter­man
April 20, 2020

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