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I went to high school with Elliot. We both took art clasess together. Elliot sat directly behind me for the duration of the class. By chance, when looking up classmates on the internet, I discovered that Elliot was a poet and author.

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"ELLIOT RICHMAN has poems published in diverse periodicals. He has also authored seven books of poetry. In 1993, he was awarded fellowships for his poetry by both the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Among the books he's written are four full-length collections: "The World Dancer;" "Honorable Manhood: Poems of Eros & Dust" (From the First Persian Gulf War); "Walk on Trooper" (Vietnam War Poems) and "Franz Kafka’s Daughter Meets the Evil Nazi Empire!"

(This poster was posted by The ROTA Studio and Gallery on July 12, 2013)

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PATTI TANA, is an author of 9 books of poetry. Tana grew up on the Hudson River in Peekskill, New York, and since 1968 she has made her home on Long Island. She is Professor Emerita of English at Nassau Community College (SUNY) and the Associate Editor of the Long Island Quarterly since it was founded in 1990. In 2009 Tana was selected as Poet Of The Year by the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association.

“When I first moved to Long Island (a weekend get-away) I heard Patti read at our local library and was so impressed with her, that I signed up for a series of one-on-one classes with her.”  ~ R.S.R. ~

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RACHEL HADAS - poet, professor, essayist, translator. Hadas studied classics at Harvard, poetry at Johns Hopkins, and comparative literature at Princeton. Since 1981 she's taught in the English Dept.of the Newark campus of Rutgers University, and has also taught at Columbia and Princeton, as well as serving on the poetry faculty of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the West Chester Poetry Conference. She's the author of many books of poetry, prose, translations, and a memoir.

“I studied with Rachel years ago, at the 92nd St. Y in N.Y.C. It was a very congenial class and Rachel’s expertise and inspiration helped me produce a few poems that, I’m proud to say, went on to be well-published.” ~ R.S.R. ~

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RACHEL WETZSTEON, in memoriam. Rachel Wetzsteon studied at Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, and received her PhD from Columbia University. The author of three collections of poems: Sakura Park, Home and Away, and The Other Stars, Wetzsteon received an Ingram Merrill grant and the 2001 Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She also served as poetry editor for the New Republic, and she taught at William Paterson University at the time of her death.

“Rachel was my very 1st poetry teacher. I’d signed up for her class at the 92nd St. Y, in NYC, back in 2000, and became enthralled with poetry, expecially formal poetry, because that’s what Rachel taught at the time. I started writing in syllabic form to start, with end ryhming, and that became the basis for my poetry for a while, till I mastered writing in meter/pentameter with rhyme. I, then, moved on to writing free verse and, today, my poetry runs the gambit from the formal all the way to terse free verse with no punctuation whatsoever. Though the years, I met Rachel for lunch once or twice a year and saw her just a few months before her death. Her death was especially shocking to me, because, a poet friend of her’s had also taken her own life a couple of years earlier. Rachel and I had actually attended a memorial service for that poet, together!” R.S.R.

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SARAH HANNAH: In Memoriam.

Sarah Hannah was a published poet whose works appeared in in Parnassus, The Southern Review, Pivot, Barrow Street, Michigan Quarterly Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, and other journals. Hannah followed her critically acclaimed first volume of poetry, Longing Distance, with Inflorescence, a compelling memoir-in-verse for her mother, Hannah earned her MFA and PhD at Columbia University, and taught at Emerson College at the time of her death.

“Sarah Hannah was my friend and poetry tutor. When my 1st tutor, Rachel Wetzsteon, no longer had time in her schedule for me, she’d recommended Sarah. Sarah and I were both nominated for a Pushcart prize in October 2006, by Ibbetson Street Press and Sarah was kind enough to read my poem, along with hers, at a special ceremony in Boston MA, because I couldn’t leave New York at the time. Sarah’s death came as such a blow to me and to the poetry community at-large. She is very missed.”  ~ R.S.R. ~

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Jeanne Marie Beaumont

JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT is the author of 3 books of poetry; also, she co-edited the anthology "The Poets' Grimm: Twentieth Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales." Beaumont currently teaches at The Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan and in the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine, and The Writing House Visits Union City, in Union City, N.J. Beaumont's work has won her awards and honors, and her poem "Afraid So," was made into a short film of the same name; and there's much more of her accomplishments as poet, author & teacher...

Jeanne Marie Beaumont

“I attended Jean Marie’s classes at the 92nd St. Y in NYC, for over a decade, up til very recently. A great percentage of the participants in the class were also those who took the class year after year. Jean Marie’s classes focused on mostly living, well-known contemporary poets. For me, that was especially exciting and informative, as I’d tended to gravitate towards Bards of old and the great poets (deceased) who followed, over decades.”  ~ R.S.R. ~

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KATE LIGHT is a librettist, lyricist and poet in New York City. She is an alumni of the Eastman School of Music, Hunter College, and the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, and she is also a professional violinist and a member of the orchestra of the New York City Opera. Her works include the libretto of The Life and Love of Joe Coogan; an opera adapted from an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show; Metamorphoses - a musical-in-progress based on Ovid’s life and work; the texts of Oceanophony...and much, much more...

Kate Light

“I’ve know Kate for many years, as a friend and poetry teacher. Her poems speak to me plainly and honestly. Though I consider them “reader-friendly.” (for me that means they’re easy on the eyes and ear -- no high-minded language or atypical formatting), they’re very well crafted poems, lyrical and some, also formal. Poems, filled with questions and answers, observation, declaration, suprise.”  ~ R.S.R.~