The Writer’s Center welcomes Ori Z. Soltes for a reading from his new collection of poems, My Life as a Dog: Poppy Poems. Funded by the Montgomery County Arts and Humanities Council, the collection of 25 poems (accompanied by a smaller number of drawings) responds to, reflects on, resonates from, and reconsiders the poet’s small dog and their morning walks throughout the year, with its changing seasons and activities and diverse sources of human and canine rumination.
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Ori Z. Soltes teaches at Georgetown University across a range of disciplines, from art history and theology to philosophy and political history. He is the former Director and Curator of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, and has curated more than 90 exhibitions there and in other venues across the country and overseas. He is also the author or editor of 31 scholarly books and several hundred articles, exhibition catalogues, and essays on diverse topics. His poetry has appeared in a handful of journals, and in several collections. His most recent book of poems is Then and Now: Love Lost and Sometimes Found (Canal Street Books).
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