Chana Bloch + Susan Cohen

Susan Cohen’s new book of poems is “A Different Wakeful Animal.” A journalist, she has taken up poetry seriously over the past decade, publishing two chapbooks and one book of poems prior to the current book.

Chana Bloch is the author of five books of poems (her latest is “Swimming in the Rain: New and Collected Poems, 1985-2015”) as well as six books of translation from Hebrew poetry, ancient and contemporary, and a critical study of George Herbert. Bloch is Professor Emerita of English Literature and Creative Writing at Mills College, where she taught for many years and directed the Creative Writing Program.