Judith Tannenbaum “Open-hearted and even-handed,” Hettie Jones

photo credit: Sara Rachel Press

Author Biography

Judith Tannenbaum is a writer and teacher who cares very deeply about a vision and practice of art-making that includes all of us. She has received two California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence grants.
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Influences

As a little girl, I listened to the stories told and the opinions expressed by my large, extended, verbal family. As a young woman and writer I loved and learned from Doris Lessing, Henry Miller, Grace Paley and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Romare Beardon's collages and Kenneth Patchen's picture poems, Fellini's 8 1/2, the poems and vision of William Blake and Czeslaw Milosz.

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Disguised as a Poem

Date of Review:

03/01/2001

Published Work:

Disguised As A Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin

Reviewer:

E.J. Zimmermann

Source:

Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries

Review Excerpt:

“This collection of personal responses is a fine primer for those interested not only in prison life and the daily contrasts between ‘inside’ and ‘outside,’ but also – and this is far more important – in the sometimes excruciating emotional civil wars that cannot but bedevil the civilian humanist.”