Green Line Cafe

UPCOMING:
THE GREEN LINE CAFE PRESENTS
Poets  LISA GRUNBERGER & JESSY RANDALL

Tuesday, June 22, 7PM

Green Line Locust – 45th and Locust St.

Jessy Randall is the Curator of Special Collections at Colorado College. She has written for Asimov’s, McSweeney’s, Opium, Painted Bride Quarterly, Rattle, and Sentence, and she occasionally guest-edits the online poetry magazine Snakeskin. Her collection of poems A Day in Boyland (Ghost Road Press, 2007) was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. She has a collection of collaborative poems, Interruptions, forthcoming from Pecan Grove Press, and a solo collection, Injecting Dreams into Cows, forthcoming from Red Hen. From 1996 to 2000 she worked at the Library Company of Philadelphia, where she curated the gender studies collection and designed an exhibition on the Temperance Movement.

Lisa Grunberger was raised in Long Island, NY,  by an Israeli mother and a Viennese Father,  With a doctorate in Comparative Religions from the University of Chicago Divinity School,  as a Yoga teacher, a college professor and published writer, Lisa Grunberger is an entertaining and passionate public speaker.  She has published in such journals as The Paterson Literary Review, Mudfish, Nimrod, The Drunken Boat, and Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, Poetica Magazine, In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself.  She has poems forthcoming in Philadelphia Poets and  Paroles des Jour, an online french publication devoted to Literature.

She is currently an Assistant Professor in English at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Her illustrated humor book, Yiddish Yoga: Ruthy’s Adventures in Love, Loss and the Lotus Pose was published by New Market Press, September, 2009.