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Richard Jeffrey Newman,
a poet, essayist and
translator, is the author of
The Silence Of Men (CavanKerry
Press, 2006), a book of his own poetry, and two
books of translations from classical Iranian literature,
Selections from Saadi’s Gulistan and
Selections from Saadi’s Bustan (both from
Global Scholarly Publications, 2004 and 2006
respectively). He has also collaborated with
Professor John Moyne on
A Bird in the Garden of Angels,
a new Rumi anthology, which has just been published
by
Mazda Publishers.
Newman has been publishing his work since
1988, when the essay
“His Sexuality; Her Reproductive Rights”
appeared in Changing Men magazine. Since then, his
essays and poems have appeared in
Salon.com,
The Pedestal, Circumference, Prairie Schooner,
ACM, Birmingham Poetry Review and other literary
journals. His work has been anthologized in
Access Literature (Thomson Wadsworth, 2005) and
the title poem of The Silence Of Men has been
translated into Dutch.
Richard Jeffrey Newman is Literary
Arts Director of
Persian Arts Festival, sits on the
advisory board of
The Translation Project and is listed as a
speaker with the
New York Council for the Humanities. He is an
Associate Professor in the
English Department at
Nassau Community College,
where he coordinates the
Creative Writing Project. You can contact him
by clicking
here.
Check Out What's New!
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A Bird in the Garden of Angels,
a new
Rumi anthology on which I collaborated with John
Moyne, has just been published by
Mazda Publishers.
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My review of Albert Goldbarth's Griffin,
appears in
Reconfigurations, a new online literary
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Two new poems, "After
Hafez" and "Amazing Grace," have been published
in the lovely journal
Thanal Online, which you should read.
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Some very kind and entirely unsolicited praise
about
The Silence Of Men on the blog
Calendar Pages. |
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It Deserves and Should Command Your Attention,
a special issue of the online quarterly
ArteNews devoted to Iranian literature from
the 10th through the 21st centuries, is now
live! Guest edited by Richard Jeffrey Newman and
including
an excerpt from his translation of the Shahnameh.
(Please note that, if you view the journal in
Explorer, the text will appear center justified.
This is a technical issue, not a design choice.
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Richard Jeffrey Newman: On Sexual Abuse,
Machismo, and Poetry as Survival,
an interview with
Anne-Christine Hoff appeared in
The New Humanist. In conjunction with this
interview, The New Humanist also published
three poems from
The Silence Of Men.
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Listen to Richard Jeffrey Newman read two poems
from
The Silence Of Men, "The
Silence Of Men" and "Because."
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Review of Richard Jeffrey Newman's, The Silence
of Men,
by
William G. Doty appears in the
Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality.
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Richard Jeffery Newman's The Silence of Men...reviewed
by Amy Unsworth
appears in
The Pedestal Magazine.
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Laurel Johnson's review of the The Silence of
Men
appears in
New Works Review.
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The Silence Of Men: An Open Letter to Richard
Jeffrey Newman
appears on
The Great American Pinup.
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Reading the World 2007: E-Panel of Literary
Translators,
an
e-panel on literary translation in which Richard
Jeffrey Newman participated appeared on the
Emerging Writers Network.
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