Book Launch and Reading with Michael Favala Goldman
Saturday, October 9, 7:00pm
Free, attend in person or remotely!
Join local poet and translator Michael Favala Goldman as he celebrates the publication of two new books of poetry, Slow Phoenix and Small Sovereign. The evening will include live jazz music, readings from Michael’s books, and a book signing/meet and greet. As we head into an uncertain winter, soothe your soul with an evening of poetry and music with one of the Valley’s favorite poets!
If you would like to attend the event by Zoom, please email programs@nohoarts.org for the link.
About Slow Phoenix: In his concise poems, Michael Favala Goldman explores the intersticial space between domestic contentment and existential disturbance with humor and care: “Get up/ go to the door/ and greet your life/ like a cousin/ you haven’t seen/ for a long time.” Like an able gardener, Slow Phoenix will “show you/ how deep, how close we have to dig.”
About Small Sovereign: The succinct poems of Small Sovereign explore the paradox of personal power and powerlessness with irony and tenderness: “I am a clumsy giant/trying desperately not/to destroy my own city.” Poet Michael Favala Goldman interrogates our attempts to bridge the gap between the material world and emotion-based relationships.
Michael Favala Goldman is a poet, translator, educator, and jazz clarinetist. Among his sixteen translated books are Dependency (a Penguin Classic) by Tove Ditlevsen, The Water Farm Trilogy by Cecil Bødker, and Something To Live Up To, Selected Poems of Benny Andersen. Goldman’s books of original poetry include Who has time for this? (2020), Slow Phoenix (2021) , and Small Sovereign (2021). His work has appeared in numerous literary journals and has received rave reviews in the New York Times and The London Times.
Goldman lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, where he has been running poetry critique groups since 2018. He also serves as Chair of the Program Committee for Straw Dogs Writers Guild and as Member of the Board of Directors for the Northampton Center for the Arts.