Charles Adés Fishman is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of English and Humanities at Farmingdale State College, where he created the Visiting Writers Program, in 1979, and the Distinguished Speakers Program, in 2001. He has been editor of the Water Mark Poets of North America Book Award, associate editor of The Drunken Boat, and poetry editor of Gaia, Cistercian Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Genocide Research, and New Works Review. Dr. Fishman has also served as poetry consultant to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, DC, since 1995, and is currently poetry editor of Prism: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators. His books include Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust (2007) and Chopin’s Piano (2006), both from Time Being Books; Country of Memory (Uccelli Press, 2004); and The Death Mazurka (Texas Tech University Press), a 1989 American Library Association “Outstanding Book of the Year” that was nominated for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Chopin’s Piano received the 2007 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence.

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