Literary Café at CFI featuring Saddle Road Press authors Philip Terman, Trudy Stern, Jennifer Campbell, Terez Peipins, and ryki zuckerman
Philip Terman received a BA and MA from Ohio University and a PhD from Ohio State University. His books of poetry include My Blossoming Everything (Saddle Road Press, 2024), The Whole Mishpocha: New and Selected Jewish Poems (1998-2023), Our Portion: New and Selected Poems (Autumn House, 2015), The Torah Garden (Autumn House, 2011), and Rabbis of the Air (Autumn House, 2007). As co-translator, Tango Beneatha Narrow Ceiling: The Selected poems of Riad Saleh Hussein (Bitter Oleander, 2021). His poems and essays have appeared in many journals and including Poetry Magazine, The Kenyon Review, Tikkun, The Georgia Review and Poetry International. He has also appeared in several anthologies including The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, 101 Poets for the Next Millennium, Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust, Joyful Noise: An Anthology of Spiritual Literature, and Extraordinary Rendition: American Writers on Palestine. Retired from Clarion University, he served as co-director of the Chautauqua Writers Festival for 14 years. Currently, he directs The Bridge Literary Arts Center in Venango County, PA and is co-curator of the Jewish Poetry Reading Series, sponsored by the Jewish Community Center of Buffalo. Recipient of the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience, Terman conducts poetry workshops and coaches writing hither and yon. He has collaborated with composers, visual artists, and he performs his poetry with the jazz band Catro.
Trudy Stern was the proprietor of the former Tru-teas Teahouse for many years. She hosted “Poetry at the Tea House”at Insite Gallery, 810 Elmwood, from 2002-2007. She was briefly a co-editor of Earth’s Daughters over a decade ago. She helped create and helps run the annual Buffalo Cherry Blossom Festival and is a former instructor at Miksang Contemplative Photography. Trudy is the author of the chapbook Taurus in Lake Erie(The Forty-Three North Chapbook Series, Saddle Road Press, 2013). She is also the author of the limited-edition volume, Ghosts Dreams (Local Color Press, 2013). Currently she continues to work in the medical field. Her newest book is the full-length collection from Saddle Road Press this August,
Jennifer Campbell is a writing professor at ECC North and a co-editor of Earth’s Daughters. She has two full-length poetry collections, Supposed to Love (Saddle Road Press, 2013) and Driving Straight Through (FootHills, 2008), along with a chapbook of reconstituted fairytale poems called What Came First (Dancing Girl Press, 2021). Jennifer’s work has recently appeared in American Journal of Nursing, The Healing Muse, Slipstream, ArLiJo, and Crosswinds Poetry Contest issue. She was the curator and host of the Just Buffalo Literary Café at CFI for years before ryki zuckerman took over the reins.
Terez Peipins is the author of four chapbooks of poetry: Box of Surprises (Finishing Line Press, 2009), A Remedy of Touch (Finishing Line Press, 2012), Dance The Truth (Saddle Road Press, 2014) and Baggage May Shift(Prolific Press, 2018). She has also published four novels. Her latest novel, River Clues, is the second book in the Dan Kiraly detective series. She was fiction editor of the Adirondack Review. She also has work injournals both here and abroad, including Anak Sastra, Barcelona Ink, The Barcelona Review, Conte, Creeping Bent, The Fossil Record, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Melusine, PedestalOtherwise Engaged, Queen City Flash, and Ride. She taught English to refugees in Buffalo for seven years, after teaching English abroad for eighteen years. She divides her time between Buffalo, New York, and Barcelona, Spain.
ryki zuckerman is a poet, editor, poetry series curator, and a retired art educator. She is the author of the full-length collection, Looking for Bora Bora (Saddle Road Press, 2013), and also seven chapbooks, including the gone artists (Nixes Mate, 2019), the skirt at the center of the universe (The Writers Den, 2018)and Three Poems (University of Buffalo Poetry Collection). Her poems have appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Slipstream, Lips, Ghost City Review, anti-heroin chic, BlazeVOX, Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, and elsewhere. Her work is anthologized in Le Mot Juste from Just Poets, in Insurrection from Gnashing Teeth, in Moving Images from Before Your Quiet Eyes,and in A Celebration of Western New York Poets. She was a co-editor of Earth’s Daughters magazine for decades. She currently curates the Literary Café at CFI (Center for Inquiry).
Saddle Road Press is a small literary press located near Ithaca, New York. previously located in Hilo, Hawai’i, run by poet Ruth Thompson and anthropologist/author Don Mitchel.
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