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Zack Rogow's Biography

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San Francisco, California
Jun 2009

Zack Rogow is the author, editor, or translator of eighteen books or plays. His sixth book of poems, The Number before Infinity, was published by Scarlet Tanager Books in 2008. His poems have appeared in a variety of magazines, from American Poetry Review to Zyzzyva. He is the editor of an anthology of U.S. poetry, The Face of Poetry, published by University of California Press in 2005. Currently he teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at the California College of the Arts and in the low-residency MFA at the University of Alaska, Anchorage.

Influences

Black Arts Movement of the 60s, New York School of poetry, Julio Cortázar, George Sand, the Spanish Republic, Diego Rivera, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, William Wordsworth, Federico García Lorca, Caetano Veloso, William Shakespeare, Sahir Ludhyanvi, Yosano Akiko, Nazim Hikmet, Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman, Leonard Cohen, André Breton, Robert Desnos, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Poe, etc., etc.

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Interests & Hobbies

International literature a passion. Huge baseball fan.