PHILIP TERMAN
Saturday, May 17 at 2 p.m.

Poet Philip Terman travels to the Northwest from Pennsylvania, where he teaches in the English Department at Clarion. He reads today from his fifth poetry collection, Rabbis of the Air (Autumn House). As the title suggests, many of the poems here have Jewish identity as a theme. "Persona experience acquires the monumentality of mythology ... Here is a resolution that shifts between history and modernity, between old and new conceptions of Judaism, binding the generations." – Jehanne Dubrow, Prairie Schooner. Philip Terman has also recently served as poet-in-resident at Franklin Pierce College, and is co-director of the Chatauqua Institute's annual writers festival.

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