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He was born in New York City, and currently resides in San Francisco, United States.A.
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Zack Rogow
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His translations from the French include works by George Sand, André Breton, Colette, and Marcel Pagnol. 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 United States. 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 plays concern the life and work of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Nazim Hikmet, Yosano Akiko, and Colette. The one-woman show about Colette had its first staged reading at the Kennedy Center in Washington District of Columbia in February 2015.
Rogow cofounded the Lunch Poems Reading Series at University of California, Berkeley with Professor Robert Hass and is the poetry editor of Catamaran Literary Reader. He is an associate faculty member in the low-residency graduate writing program at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
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