Upcoming Appearances
Come hear Steven read at the Bloomingdale Branch of the New York Public Library on Thursday July 14, 2011 at 5:30 p.m.
Steven will visit New York's Mid-Hudson Valley to read and lecture about poetry in Poughkeepsie during September 2011. Please check back for more details.
Recent Events
Steven read and led a poetry workshop at JASA (Jewish Association for Services to the Aged) during March 2011 in Manhattan.
Steven appeared on Talkline with Zev Brenner, America's leading Jewish radio program, on the sixth night of Chanukah 2010, to talk about his Slawotich stories from Where the Shouting Began.Steven taught poetry workshops at Kittay House and Riverdale Senior Center via NEA's "Creativity and Aging Initiative" 2009 grant run through Poets House. The following excerpt comes from WCBS-AM radio's May 6, 2009 interview with him:
...they have very rich memories and very rich experiences...and the connections are very important that we can establish in writing poetry...it will keep them young, keep their minds sharp - their connections to their own lives...seeing the value in those things. Those things don't end as we get older.
Steven read his story "Hostage Stew" to help launch Issue #7 of Alimentum: The Literature of Foodin 2009 in Manhattan.
In 2008, Steven hosted a panel on the poetry of Hyam Plutzik through the Plutzik Goldwasser Foundationat the premiere screening of Hyam Plutzik: American Poet, and co-presented "Hyam Plutzik's Horatio as Post-Holocaust Poem" at the 13th annual American Literature Jewish American & Holocaust Literature Symposium (JAHLIT).
Contact Steven at: sjs@stevensher.net