Norman Fischer + Kit Robinson

Norman Fischer is a poet, essayist, and Zen Buddhist priest. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop, his latest poetry collections are Magnolias All At Once (Singing Horse, 2015) Escape This Crazy Life of Tears: Japan 2010 (Tinfish, 2014), and The Strugglers (Singing Horse, 2013).  Just out from Chax a collection of tanka (very brief poems): any would be if. In 2015 Universiity of Alabama Press brought out a collection of essays, Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language and Religion. Fischer lives with his wife Kathie on a cliff overlooking the Pacific at Muir Beach.

Kit Robinson was born in Evanston, Illinois, grew up in Cincinnati, went to Yale, and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area ever since. He is the author of Marine Layer (BlazeVOX), Catalan Passages (Streets and Roads), Determination (Cuneiform), The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems, 1976-2003 (Adventures in Poetry), and many other books of poetry, including collaborations with Ted Greenwald, A Mammal of Style (Roof) and Takeaway (c_L Books).