Dara Barnat

Pensive lady wonders what’s ahead… ~ Photo by Denise Provost

Interview by New England Poetry Club Co-President Doug Holder In (2007) when I was running workshops for the Voices of Israel organization based in Israel, one of the workshop members was a young poet, Dara Barnat. Well, since then she has become a distinguished academic at Tel Aviv University, and has come out with a fascinating piece of scholarship. I caught up with her recently to talk about her new book Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American Poetry.

Rusty Barnes lives in Revere, MA, with his family and a herd of cats. His work appears widely He is the author of the poetry chapbook Dear So and So and the co-editor of Live Nude Poems. Hey Hey Mama is the vocal intro to the trippingest rock and roll signature riff I know, how the blues rock pentatonics roll off the guitar like wet thunder, and Robert Plant’s keening call makes me wanna slap my mama myself. If you know what I mean and I think you do.