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Richard Chess
Center for Jewish Studies at UNCA
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Rick teaches literature and language at the University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA). He directs UNCA's Center for Jewish Studies as well as UNCA's Creative Writing Program and has served as writer-in-residence at the Brandeis Bardin Institute in Simi Valley, CA. He is poetry editor of Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture.
Israel Through the Lens of Poets
(in translation and in English)
Israel, Text & Thought
- Saturday 12:30PM–1:45PM Laguna Beach 3
Many of us know the works of Yehuda Amichai, one of world Jewry's most important and influential 20th century poets. In this session, we'll look at work by other, less well-known poets to see where they direct their attentions in the Israeli experience and discuss what that means about how they perceive Israel.
Writing Your Jewish Life
Global History and Culture, Global History and Culture
- Saturday 8:00PM–9:15PM Laguna Beach 2
In this session you'll have the opportunity to write a piece of poetry or prose that explores one facet of your own Jewish life. We'll use several poems by other poets to get us going and to inspire us to define, enter and explore an experience or idea having to do with Jewish life.
Meet Me At the Third Temple:
A Reading and Discussion of Original Work
Global History and Culture, Global History and Culture
- Sunday 11:30AM–12:45PM Newport Beach 1
The collection of poems in "The Third Temple," read and discussed by the author, offers a unique look on key players in Jewish history and their role in building the third Temple in Jerusalem.
