Scribblers on the Roof: Owen Lewis and Carlie Hoffman

Join us at our popular literary program to hear emerging and established Jewish writers read from their recent work, all on our breezy and beautiful rooftop space. Snacks, beverages and books available for purchase.

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This Week:

Owen Lewis and Carlie Hoffman

Prize-winning poet CARLIE HOFFMAN and poet OWEN LEWIS will read from their works.

OWEN LEWIS is the author of two chapbooks and four poetry collections, most recently, Knock knock.  Prizes include the 2023 Guernsey International Poetry Prize, the 2023 Rumi Prize for Poetry, and the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.  At Columbia University he is Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics and teaches Narrative Medicine.

CARLIE HOFFMAN is the author of When There Was Light (2023) and This Alaska (2021),  winner of the NCPA Gold Award in poetry and a finalist for the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award. She is the translator of Weiße Schatten / White Shadows: Anneliese Hager (Atelier Éditions, 2023). Carlie’s honors include the 92Y “Discovery” / Boston Review poetry prize and a Poets & Writers Amy Award. Publications include work in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, New England Review, and Jewish Currents. Carlie edits Small Orange Journal and is a Lecturer of Creative Writing at Purchase College-SUNY.

In conversation with Sheila Lewis.