20190726 BOOKSTOCK Matthew Olzmann & Rachel Hadas
Channel: Woodstock Community Television
Date: 2019-07-30

MATTHEW OLZMANN AND RACHEL HADAS Matthew Olzmann is the author of two collections of poems, Mezzanines, which was selected for the 2011 Kundiman Prize, and Contradictions in the Design, both from Alice James Books. He’s been awarded fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Kresge Arts Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. His writing has appeared in Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Brevity, and elsewhere. He was the poetry editor of The Collagist from 2009-2016. Previously he’s taught for the InsideOut Literary Arts project in Detroit, Oakland Community College, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He now teaches at Dartmouth College and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. The daughter of renowned classical scholar Moses Hadas, Rachel Hadas studied classics at Harvard, poetry at Johns Hopkins, and comparative literature at Princeton. Between college and graduate school she spent four years in Greece, an experience reflected variously in much of her work. She has taught at Columbia, Princeton, and since 1981 at Rutgers University. She has published more than twenty books of poetry, essays, and translations including the memoir Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry (2011) and the poetry collections The Ache of Appetite (2010), The Golden Road (2012), and Questions in the Vestibule.