The Writer’s Center welcomes poet Michael Blumenthal to celebrate the release of his new book, DON’T DIE: Poems, 2013-2021.
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Michael Blumenthal, formerly Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, graduated from the Cornell Law School in 1974 and was Visiting Professor of Law at the West Virginia University College of Law from 2009-2017. His first collection of short stories, The Greatest Jewish-American Lover in Hungarian History, was published by Etruscan Press in 2014, and Etruscan also published his eighth book of poems, No Hurry: Poems 2000-2012 in 2013. He is the author of the memoir All My Mothers and Fathers (Harper Collins, 2002), and his novel Weinstock Among The Dying, won Hadassah Magazine’s Harold U. Ribelow Prize for the best work of Jewish fiction. A collection of his radio essays for NPR, entitled Just Three Minutes Please: Thinking Out Loud on Public Radio, was published in 2014, and his collaboration with the baboon conservationist Rita Miljo, “Because They Needed Me”: The Incredible Struggle of Rita Miljo to Save the Orphaned Baboons of South Africa was published in May, 2016. His DON’T DIE: Poems, 2013-2021 will be published by The Rabbit House Press in 2021.