Karen Alkalay‑Gut, Ph.D.

Department of English

Tel Aviv University

 

92 Levanon Street, Ramat Aviv, 69345

97236416548,

gut22@post.tau.ac.il

 

Date and Place of Birth: 1945 ‑ London, England.   

EDUCATION                                                                                  

1962‑1966  University of Rochester   English  BA cum laude,  1966, MA  1967,   Ph.D. 1975.

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

(A) BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS                                                                         

Alone in the Dawn: The Life of Adelaide Crapsey.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, December 1988.                

(B) REFEREED ARTICLES                                                                      

1)      “The Decline of the Waistline: A Study of the Shape of the Classic American Heroine,” American Studies International XIX, 1, Autumn, 1980, 39‑50.                                                               

 

2)      “Poetry by Women in America: Aesthetics in Evolution,” The Canadian Review of American Studies 14, 3, Autumn, 1983, 239‑57.                 

 

3)      “The Birth of the Poet’s Mind:  Theodore Roethke’s ‘Where Knock Is Open Wide’,” Contemporary Poetry V, 2, 1983, 17‑41.                               

 

4)      “Quilting Significance: ‘A Jury of Her Peers’,” Studies in Short Fiction, V. 21, No. 1, Winter, 1984, 1‑9. Reprinted in: A Casebook on “A Jury of Her Peers,” ed. Linda Ben Zvi, University of Michigan Press, 1998.          

 

5)      “Death, Order, and Poetry: ‘The Presentation Piece’ of Adelaide Crapsey,”  American Literature, May 1985, 263‑290.                   

 

6)      “’Keeping the Edge of Deprivation Sharp’:  Adelaide Crapsey’s “To the Dead in the Grave‑Yard Under my Window’,”  The Explicator V. 43, No. 2, Winter 1985, 25‑28.                                              

 

7)      “Lilies that Fester:  A Reading of Rich’s ‘An Unsaid Word’,” The Explicator V. 43, No. 2, Winter, 1985, 53‑56.                                                                                                         

 

8)      “Woman in a Trap: Pope’s ‘Eloisa to Abelard’,” College Literature V. XIII No. 3, Fall, 1986, 272‑285. Reprinted in: College Literature V. XV No. 3, Fall 1988, 249‑262 (Special 15th Anniversary Edition of Best Articles in College Literature).                                                                           

 

9)      “Form and the Feminist Revolution,” Poesis, 7:1, 1986, 35‑54.                      

 

10)  “Subversion and Success: Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Behind a Mask’,” Journal of Popular Literature V. II, No. 2, Fall/Winter, 1986, 83‑98.

 

11)  “The Dying of Adelaide Crapsey,” Journal of Modern Literature V. 13, No. 2, July, 1986, 225‑250.      

 

12)   “Theodore Roethke’s ‘The Moment’: Mysticism Through the Senses,” Poesis V. 7, No. 3, 1986, 38‑46. http://www.karenalkalay-gut.com/ROETHKE.htm

 

13)   “Taking Nonsense Seriously:  A Look at Jabberwocky’,” The Explicator V. 46, No. 1, Fall 1987, 27‑31.  Reprinted in Kennedy, X. J., The Craft of Literature CD-ROM (eighth edition) Longman, 2002.

 

14)  “The Main Thing:  Anne Sexton’s ‘Housewife’,” The Explicator V. 47, No. 2, Winter 1989, 52‑54.                   

 

15)  “Israeli Women Poets and the War in Lebanon,” World Literature Today  V. 63, No. 1, winter 1989, 19‑26.  Reprinted in: Israel Horizons, V. 37, No. 1, Spring 1989, 6‑13.                                        

 

16)  “’Am I Tenor Or Am I Vehicle?’:  Sylvia Plath’s ‘Metaphors’,” The Explicator, V. 50, No. 3, Spring, 1992, 189‑192.  Reprinted in Kennedy, X. J., The Craft of Literature CD-ROM (eighth edition) Longman, 2002

 

17)   “’If Mark Twain Had a Sister’:  Gender‑Specific Values and Structure in Jean Webster’s Daddy Long‑Legs,” Journal of American Culture, Winter, 1993, V. 16, #4, 91-99.                 

 

18)  “Modernism and the Household Genius,” William Carlos Williams Review.  Spring 1994, V. 20, #1, 61-65.

 

19)  “Ernest Dowson and the Strategies of Decadent Desire,” Criticism xxxvi, #2 Spring, 1994, 243-263. http://www.karenalkalay-gut.com/Dowson.html

 

20)  “Overcoming Time and Despair: Ernest Dowson’s Villanelle,” Victorian Poetry 34, 1, 101-8, Spring 1996.  http://karenalkalay-gut.com/dowvill7a.html

 

21)  “Sex and the Single Engine: E.E. Cummings and an Experiment in Metaphoric Equation,” Journal of Modern Literature, 20, Winter, 1996, #2, 254-259.

 

22)  “The Twist of a Circle: The Logic of ‘A Match’,” Victorian Institutes Journal , 24, 1996, 141-163. http://www.karenalkalay-gut.com/match20.html

 

23)  “The Thing he Loves: Murder as an Aesthetic Experience in ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol,’” Victorian Poetry 35:3 Fall, 1997, 493-366. http://vp.engl.wvu.edu/fall97/gut.htm

 

24)  “Swinburne’s Perversions And “Les Noyades,Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, 6, Spring, 1997, 52-65.  http://karenalkalay-gut.com/noyad18.html

 

25)  “Literary Dialogues: Rock Music and Victorian Poetry,” Poetics Today, Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring 2000, 33-61.

 

26)  "Double Diaspora: English Writing in Israel," Judaism Vol. 51, No. 4, Fall 2002, 457-468.

 

27)  “Getting Women to Talk about Themselves: My Role Models of the Previous Generation,” Nashim, 7, Spring 2004, 212-216.

 

28)  “The Dream Life of Ms. Dog: Anne Sexton, Walter Mitty, Gasoline Alley, and R.D. Laing,”
College Literature (forthcoming)

 

29)  “Poetry of September 11 – The Testimonial Impertaive," Poetics Today (forthcoming).

 

(C) CHAPTERS IN BOOKS                                                               

1)      “Learning to Love Mother: Candace Flynt’s Mother Love,” Chapter III, Mother Puzzles, ed. M. Pearlman, Greenwood Press, December 1989, 23‑34

2)       “For We Swallow Magic and Deliver Anne: Anne Sexton and Her Name,”  The Anna Book, ed. M. Pearlman, Greenwood Press, September 1992, 139-151.

3)      “Adrienne Rich,” in American Jewish Women Writers, ed.  Ann Shapiro, Greenwood Press, September 1994, 333-342.

4)        “Murder and Marriage: Susan Glaspell and the Perspective of Women,” in Selected Criticism on Susan Glaspell, ed. Linda Ben Zvi, University of Michigan Press, 1995, 71-81.

5)      “Decadent Poetry,” A Handbook of Victorian Poetry, ed. Joseph Bristow, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

6)      “Jean Webster,” Dictionary of American Biography: American Women Writers 1880-1920, 2001.

7)      Adelaide Crapsey,” Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Fitzroy-Dearborn, 2001.

8)      Adelaide Crapsey,” Companion to 20th Century Poetry, Facts on File, Ed. Burt Kimmelman, New York: Checkmark Books, 2005. 106-107.

9)       “Housewife,” Companion to 20th Century Poetry Facts on File, Ed. Burt Kimmelman, New York: Checkmark Books, 2005. 220-221.

10)   “Theodore Roethke,” Companion to 20th Century Poetry, Facts on File, Ed. Burt Kimmelman, New York: Checkmark Books, 2005. 429-430.

11)  "Erica Jong," Enclyclopedia of Erotic Literature, Routledge, 2005.

12)  "The Jewish Tradition in American Poetry," Encyclopedia of Ethnic Americam Literature, Ed. Emmanuel Nelson. Greenwood Press, forthcoming 2005.

13)  "Double Identities in Troubled Times," Jewish Literature(s) in English? Transcultural and Transnational Studies in Anglophone Jewish Writing, ed. Axel Stahler. Routledge, forthcoming 2006.

 

OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITY

(A) ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS                                       

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED                                                                                            

1) 1983, February, Tel Aviv University.  3 day conference on Creative Writing. 

2) 1983, December, Tel Aviv University.  Colloquium on Women and Literature. 

3) 1984, April 2, Poets of Israel, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.     

4) 1989, March 5‑8, Tel Aviv University, 4 day conference on Women in Israeli and American Literature and the Arts.                           

5) 1989, December 19, American Studies Association Conference on              

History and Biography.                                                         

6) 1994, November 23-4, American Studies Association Conference on Autobiography.

7) 1997, November, with Meir Sternberg, Tamar Yakoby, and Brian McHale, Avante-Garde Poetry

PAPERS PRESENTED          

1)      1973, May     University Teachers of English, Jerusalem                      

      Paper Read:  “Self Knowledge in Comedy of Errors,’ ‘Love’s Labours’ Lost,’  and ‘Twelfth Night.’                                                             

2)      1977, May     University Teachers of English, Bar Ilan University               

      Presentation: Poetry.

                                                              

3)      1979, May     American Studies Association, Jerusalem                         

Paper Read:  “The Decline of the Waistline:  A Study of the Shape of the Classic American Heroine”                                                       

4)      1981, May     University Teachers of English, Jerusalem                       

Paper Read:  “The End of Petticoat Government: A Myth of American Literature”

 

5)      1981, December  International Interdisciplinary Conference on Women, Haifa 

Paper Read: A Poetry of Women                                                              

 

6)      1983, February  Conference on Creative Writing   Tel Aviv University         

Coordinator: Introductory and Concluding Speeches                                             

 

7)      1983, May    Poetry Colloquium  Innsbruck University 

Paper Read:  “A Poetry of Women”                                                               

 

8)      1983, June   American Studies Association,  Neve Ilan                               

Panel Moderator: “The Influence of Mass Media on the Arts”                           

 

9)      1983, December  Colloquium on Women and Literature Tel Aviv University           

Paper Read:  “Form and the Feminist Revolution”                          

 

10)  1985, April  Colloquium on Israeli Poetry  Library of Congress                  

Panel Participant                                                                                                                             

 

11)  1988,  May  Conference on Canon Formation,   Tel Aviv University               

Paper Read:  “If Mark Twain Had a Sister: Jean Webster’s Daddy Long‑Legs”

 

12)  1991,  July Conference on Hebrew Literature   Hebrew University             

Paper Read: “Poetry By Women and the War in Lebanon                                  

 

13)  1991, December   Modern Language Association   San Francisco                    

Paper Read: “>From Inspiration to Dialogue:  The Recasting of the Muse  in Contemporary Women’s Poetry”

                                                 

14)  1994, October   Victorian Studies Association Richmond Virginia

Paper Read: The Thing He Loves: Murder as Aesthetic Experience in the Ballad of Reading Gaol

 

15)  1994, October   American Popular Culture Association Wheeling West Virginia   

Paper Read: Genre and Gender Violence - >From Robert Browning to Axl Rose

 

16)  1995, November Haifa University - Black American Studies<

Paper Read: “Dualities, Dialogues, And The Position Of The Contemporary Black Woman Poet: The Case Of Lucille Clifton,”

 

17)  1997, April  Poetry and the Public Sphere - Rutgers University – Jewish Women Poets

 

18)  1997, November Avant Garde Poetry - Tel Aviv University - “Role Over T.S. Eliot: Rock Music as Avannt Garde Poetry.”

 

19)  1998, July - Jewish Literature -University of Western Australia -  English Writing in Israel Today .

 

20)  1998, November 29, “African Homeland, African Diaspora and African Identity,” Tel Aviv University, Black Poetry Reading

 

21)  2000, June 28-July 3 “Poetry in the Sixties,”  University of Maine, Orono,  “The Dream Life Of Ms. Dog: Anne Sexton, Walter Mitty, Gasoline Alley, And R.D. Laing.”

 

22)  2001, August 14, World Union of Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Jerusalem.
Paper Read: “Double Diaspora: English Language Written in Israel.”

 

23)  2002, April 10. Porter Institute, Tel-Aviv University. Conference on Testimony.
Paper Read: “Poetry as Testimony.”

 

24)  2002, May 5. Annual Conference of the Israeli Association for the Study of Language and Society, Tel Aviv University.
Panel on Israeli authors and poets writing in foreign languages.

 

25)  2003, May 20-22. Bar-Ilan University. Conference on Jewish Creative Writing.
Paper Read: “
Born in Yiddish, Raised in English, Living Hebrew.”

 

26)  2004, February 9-11. Maale HaShlosha. The Israel Translators Association (ITA) Conference.
Paper Read: "The Problems of Translating Poetry."

 

27)  2004, June 2. Bar-Ilan University. Conference on “Memoir.”
Chair: "Memoir and Poetry: A Reading,” with Charles Fishman, Linda Zisquit and Shirley Kaufman.

 

28)  2004, June 26. University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Conference: Poetry of the Forties.
Paper Read: "The Self and the World: Theodore Roethke's Poetry of the Forties."

 

29)  2004, April 4-5. Haifa University. International Forum of Poets.
Panel on "Poetry and Lyricism."

Paper Reads: "Poetry and Lyricism," "Poetry and Translation."

 

30)  2005, June 8. Haifa University and The Genral Union of Writers in Israel.  Jewish Arabic Center.
Panel of Authors and Poets Writing in Hebrew and Arabic.

 

31)  2005, July 5. Achva Academic College. Contact Study Day. "Narrative Stories, and Story-Telling in English Teacher Education," Keynote Speaker.

 

 

(B) MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES                                                  

Year                                         Society                                    

1981‑present                     Member, Modern Language Association          

1979‑present                     American Studies Association (Chair, 1989‑ 1994).        

1980‑present                     Israel Association of Writers in English    (Chair, 1982‑4, Sec’y,

                                                                                                        1987‑1989, Chair, 1992-present)

1980‑present                     Member, PEN                                  

1980‑present                     Member, Federation of Writers in Israel

                                            (Governing Board, 1990 – present, Vice Chair, 1999-present)

1983‑present                     Salzburg Alumni Committee Israel, (Governing Board, 1985-present)           

1984‑present                     Member, Poetry Society of America            

1984‑present                     Member, Poets and Writers                            

1989‑present                     Member, Emily Dickinson Association                  

1989‑1995                         Hilai, Organization of Artists’ Colonies in Israel (1991-1999, Central Board)   

(C) DOCTORAL STUDENTS SUPERVISED

     

1.      Jane Statlander - The University of New England, Armidale Australia – co-supervisor with Dr. M.J. Lee, 1997-1999

 

2.      Ravit Reichman – Fullbright Grant to Israel 1999-2000 – supervisor – “The Education of Poetry.”

 

3.      Annie Kanter, Fullbright Phd Student, 2001-2, “Poetry in Israel: An Anthology”

 

4.      Linda Landau, begin. þ2000, "Figures of Anarchy and Ethical Sense: Narrative Metaphor and the Poetics of Stephen Crane"  

 

5.      Zafra Dan, begin. 2000, "Intrigue and Plot in Jacobean Drama"

 

6.      Louise Klaff, begin. 2000, "Murdering Women: Law and Literature."

 

 (D) SELECTED EDITING POSITIONS

 

1. 2004: Coordinating Editor, Jerusalem Review

 

2. 1999-2004: Founding and Editorial Board Member, Jerusalem Review

 

3. 1997: Editor, PEN Israel Anthology.

 

4. 1994: Editor, ARC.

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS                                                  

(A) ACADEMIC AWARDS

 

New York State Scholarship 1962-1966

University of Rochester Fellowship 1966-7, 1970-1975                  

Fullbright - Salzburg Seminar - 1984

Fullbright Travel Award - 1990

British Council Travel Award - 1992

(B) LITERARY AWARDS 

 

Tel Aviv Fund ‑ for Making Love:Poems, 1980    

Commendation, International Writers’ Workshop, New Zealand, 1982

Shvut Award for publication of Pislei Chem’a - 1983

Arie Dulchin Prize for Literature ‑ Jewish Agency ‑ 1985

Third Prize, Rosenberg Poetry Competition, 1988, (Honorable Mention), 1989. 

First Prize, BBC World Service Poetry Award ‑ 1990. 

Voices Poetry Award ‑ 1991  

Israel Federation of Writers’ Association Award for Ignorant Armies - 1992

Readers’ Choice Award, Prairie Schooner, 1992.

“Rachel Award,” for Recipes (Golan, 1993).

Special Commendation, Arvon Prize, 1993.

Honorable Mention, Mulberry Prize, 1995.

Keren Amos for The Paranormal in Our Daily Lives, 1996

Finalist: Alice Fay di Castignola Award, for “The Love of Clothes and Nakedness,” 1997.

Tel Aviv Fund for Ahavat Begadimm veErom, 1999

 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS                                                                    

(A) ARTICLES   

1)       “The Pull of Madness: Blackness in American Literature” (Hebrew), Proza, Nov. 1981, 54.          

2)      îåãòåú òã ëàá: àãøéàï øéõ'" “ “Adrienne Rich,”  Moznaim LV, No. 4‑5, 1982, 33‑4.                        

3)      “The Lesbian Imperative in Poetry,”  Contemporary Review, V. 242, No. 1407, April 1983, 209‑212. Reprinted in An Anthology of Gay/Lesbian Writing.  Tel Aviv, 1994.

 

4)      “Problems in Literary Herstory: Chaucerian Msconceptions,” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses April 1983, 73‑78.

 

5)      "úéàãåø øè÷ä: îùåøø äèáò äàáåã"  “Theodore Roethke: Poetry of Lost Nature” (Hebrew). Moznaim, September 1983, 24‑26

 

6)      “The Man Who Escaped from the Plot: An Alternative Reading of Hawthorne’s ‘Wakefield’,” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses V. 14, No. 7, November 1983, 95‑98.                                         

7)      “English Writing in Israel,” American Book Review V. 6, No. 3, March/April 1984, 4‑5. 

 

8)      “Poetry and Politics,” Hoopoe International , Vol. 1, No.1, Jerusalem, 1988, 39-41.

 

9)      "ùåîø äçìåîåú: ìðâñèåï äéåæ" “The Dream Keeper: Langston Hughes” (Hebrew), Moznaim April 1988, 37‑39. 

 

10)  “Preface,” The Sea in Not Full: Poems.  Jane Lunin Perel. Tel Aviv: Ledory, 1990. Unpaginated

 

11)  “Forum,” with Phyllis Lassner and Hanita Goodblatt, PMLA October, 1992, 1281-2.

 

12)  “Women and the Gulf War: A Personal Perspective,” Kerem, Winter 1994, 27-34. Reprinted in Imagination (U. of Ankara), V. I, Number 1. 

 

13)  “Notes on Writing in English in Tel Aviv,” Modern Poetry in Translation New Series, #4. Winter 1993-4, 13-16.                                                                     

 

14)  “All Poetryed-Out,” Connect: The Journal of the British Council, February, 1995, 12.   

 

15)  “A Poetry Tour of London,”  Home Planet News 39, Summer, 1995, 5, 9-10.

 

16)  “The Experience Of The Holocaust In Israeli Rock Music,” (Hebrew) HaDoar, 1995.

 

17)  “The English Writer in Israel,” Tel Aviv Review 4, 1996, 17-19.

 

18)  “One Woman, 2 Marriages, 3 Cultures, 4 Names,” Lilith Vol. 21, No. 4, Winter 1996-1997, 10-11.

 

19)  The Experience Of The Holocaust In Israeli Rock Music,”  HaDoar. http://www.karenalkalay-gut.com/HOLO4.htm

 

20)  “English Writing in Israel Today,”  arc 13 , 1998, 1-13.

 

21)  “Rock ëùéøä ùì äàååðâøã,” Moznaim, May, 1999, 38-40.

 

22)  "äñéôåø äàéùé, îñä" Rav Kol 1, 1999, 16-17.<

 

23)  “The War: A Lesson in History,” A Teacers’ Corner, 2000. http://www.apoetborn.com/tc-archive/tc-war.cfm

 

24)  “English Writing in Israel Today,” arc 13, Summer, 1999, 1-13.

 

25)  “All God’s Children Need Radios” (On Israeli Radio) enRoute Magazine, October, 1999. http://www.karenalkalay-gut.com/enroute2.htm

 

26)  “Belly Dancing Gear,” Goodlookin Summer/Fall 1999, 20-5.

 

27)  “Brides and Their Messages,”  Goodlookin,  Summer/Fall 2000.

 

28)  “We are Not A Muse: Who Inspires Women Poets?” Esra  Feb-Mar 2000, 32.

 

29)  “Generations,” Kibbutz Trends 43-4, Winter 2001, 20-22.

 

30)  “Yehuda Amichai,” The Source, Issue # 27, May 2002. http://thesourceisrael.com/issue27/intimate.shtml

 

31)  “Purim in Rochester, New York,” Esther’s Legacy: Celebrating Purim Around the World, Ed. Barbara Vinick, Hadassah, 2002. 105.

 

32)  “In Memoriam: Binyamin Katz,” Epirion # 80, 2003. 11-12.

 

33)  “Recent Developments in English Writing in Israel,” Ph’atitude, 2004.

 

34)  “A Lesson in History.” A Teacher’s Corner, in A Poet Born. http://www.apoetborn.com/tc-archive/tc-war.cfm

 

35)  “The Search for the Perfect Opening Poem,” Performance Poetry, May 2003. http://www.suite101.com/print_article.cfm/4847/98766

 

36)  “Introduction,” and Back-Cover-Text, Quest for Peace of Heart, by Massarwa Osama, Taibe: Al-Taybah, 2003.

 

37)  "Introduction," A Taste for Translation: Anthology, by Binyamin Katz, Tel Aviv, 2004.

 

38)  "Yeats – Hunger for Life and Love," Psefas, 57, Spring-Summer 2004. 35-36. (Hebrew).

 

39)  “Triple Heritage,” Jewish Quarterly, 194, September 2004. 65-69.

 

40)  "The English Department of Tel Aviv University: A Brief Survey of an Expansive Subject," Ha'aretz (English Edition), Education Supplement, May 27 2005. 14-15.

 

(B) REVIEWS

1)      “No Exit: Eda Zorritte’s In the Roman Way,” Modern Hebrew Literature V. 4, No. 3, Winter 1978, 32‑24.                                                                                                              

2)      “The ‘Stirring Conversation’:  American Literature and The Bleeding Heart,” Atlantis V. 2, No. 1, Autumn 1983, 129‑132.                                                                                             

 

3)      “Jean Webster, Storyteller,” Atlantis V. 9, No. 1, Autumn 1985, 167‑170.                    

 

4)      “Savage Grace,” American Book Review V. 8, No. 6, Nov.- Dec., 1986, 21‑2.        

 

5)      "àôùøåéåú ìôøééì"  “Possibilities for Priel” (Hebrew), HaDoar April 1986, 18‑19. 

                     

6)      “Me and DiMaggio,” American Book Review V. 9, No. 2, March‑April 1987, 9.   

                   

7)      “The Grammar of Existence: Yaakov Shabtai, Past Perfect,” American Book Review V. 9, No. 5, Nov‑Dec 1987, 20.      

 

8)      “The Love of Real Miracles:  Shulamit Hareven, The Miracle Hater,” American Book Review, V. 11, No. 4, September-October 1989, 13-15.                                                                                                         

 

9)      “Keeping Minor Characters Minor: James Joyce and Brenda  Maddox’s Nora,” Kennesaw Review V. 2, No. 3, Summer 1989, 102‑105.                                                                                  

 

10)  "àðé ùåîò àú àîøé÷ä ùøä"  “I Hear America Singing: American Poetry” edited by Odded  Peled (Hebrew),  Moznaim, April 1990, 46. 

 

11)  “Midrash Madness: David Curzon’s Midrashim,” Jerusalem Post, December 4, 1991, 4.

 

12)  “Psychological Specimen: A Review of Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Wood Middlebrook,” American Book Review Vol. 13, No. 5, December 1991 / January 1992, 12.

 

13)  “Our Mothers Never Told Us:  Menopause and the Turn of the Century ‑  The Dangerous Age,”  American Book Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, June-July, 1993, 8.                                     

 

14)  “The Fan of Swords: The Poetry of Mohammed Al‑Maghut,” American Book Review, Vol. 15, No. 3, August-September 1993, 9. Reprinted in Hebrew in HaDoar, December. 1993                                   

 

15)  “Fictional Freedom: Judith Chernaik’s Love’s Children,” American Book Review, Vol. 15. No. 5, December-January, 1994, 31.   

 

16)  “Zero Time:  Edmund Pennant’s Askance and Strangely,” American Book Review Vol. 16, No. 6, March-May, 1995, 11.      

 

17)  “Beyond Borders: The Poetry of Elaine Feinstein,” Jewish Quarterly Summer 1995, 67-68.

 

18)  What Are You Looking For? Finders by Julie Parson-Nesbitt.” American Book Review, September, 1996.

 

19)  “Body’s Beauty,” Victorian Studies, May 1999.

 

20)  Review of Kathy Alexis Psomiades, Beauty's Body: Femininity and Representation in British Aestheticism, Nineteenth Century Literature, Vol. 54, No. 1, June 1999. http://www.ucpress.edu/scan/ncl-e/541/reviews/alkalay-gut.rev541.html

 

21)  Internet discussion of poetry, ed. Moshe Ben Arroch, Ygeris,         

 

22)  “A Woman Walks into a Bar: Kim Addonizio’s Tell MeAmerican Book Review. Vol. 22, Issue 4, May/June 2001.

 

23)  “Being Faithful to Fidelity: A Review of Susan Glaspell’s Novel,” http://www.womenwriters.net/bookreviews/glaspellreview.html

 

24)  “The Taste of Two Worlds: Rochelle Mass.” Kibbutz Trends, September 2001. Reprinted in Poetry Magazine, http://poetrymagazine.com/archives/2001/October01/mass_by_alkalay_gut.htm

 

25)  “Every Home Is Borrowed Anyway: Ruth Setton’s Road to Fez,” American Book Review. Vol. 23, Issue 2, January/February 2002. http://www.litline.org/ABR/issues/Volume23/Issue2/Alkalay-Gut.pdf

 

(C) INTERVIEWS                                                                                     

1)      Interview with Maxine Kumin, Iowa Woman V. 7, No. 4, December 1987. 12‑18.                        

2)      Interview with Danny Horowitz, Theater in Israel, ed. Linda Ben Zvi.  Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996. 349-354.                              

3)  Interview with Erica Jong, Jerusalem Review, 2, 1997/1998. 162-174.

4)  Interview with Moshe Benarroch, archipelago Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2003. http://www.archipelago.org/vol7-1/recommend.htm

5)  Interview with Robert Friend. http://www.karenalkalay-gut.com/RFRIEND3.htm

(D) TRANSLATIONS INTO ENGLISH MADE BY ALKALAY‑GUT                                           

POETRY   

1)         Asher Reich, “Our Blood,” “Bathsheba,” “Haifa in Winter,” Ariel, 53, 1983, 102‑3. 

2)         ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑“What Shall He Do,” “Haifa In Winter,” “Bathsheba,” Home Planet News, 22 (Vol. 5, No. 4) 1986, 16‑17. 

3)         ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑“Our Blood is the World’s Petrol,” Massachusetts Review, XXVII 2, 1986, 193. 

4)         David Avidan, “Talks,” Cryptograms From a Telestar, Tel Aviv: Now, 1980, 19‑23. Reprinted in arc, 1993.

5)         ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑“Practical Poems,” Massachusetts Review, XXVII, no.2, 1986, 195. 

6)         Mordechai Geldmann, “The Wholly City,” Metaphysical Reflection 27,” “Transparent Minotaur,” Jerusalem Quarterly, 26, Winter 1983, 81‑3. 

7)         ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑“The Hollow City,” Home Planet News, Vol. 5, No. 4 1986, pp. 16‑17. 

8)         ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑“The Plant,” Midstream, August/September, 1986, 26‑7. 

9)         Natan Zach, “Script,” Massachusetts Review, XXVII, No.2, 1986, 196‑7. 

10)       Yehuda Amichai, “On Rabbi Kook’s Street,” Massachusetts Review, XXVII, 2, 1986, 194. 

11)       ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑“Dante Coffee House 1,” “Dante Coffee House 2,” “Dante Coffee House 3,” Amelia, V. V, #3, 1989, 126‑7. 

12)       ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑“I Guard the Children in the School Yard,” and “New York University,” Prairie Schooner, V. 62, No. 2, Summer 1988, 79‑81. 

13)       Natan Yonatan, “Terminal,” Massachusetts Review, XXVII, No.2, 1986, 198‑9.

14)       ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑“Absalom,” Poet Lore 81, No. 2, Summer 1986. 

15)       ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑“Friends,” “And the Rotem,” Home Planet News, Vol. 5, No. 4 1986 pp. 16‑17. 

16)       ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑“Only the Oxygen Tent,” New Traditions. 

17)       ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑“Shores,” “Letter,” “Gold Acacia,” Wind‑Prayer,” Midstream Vol. XXXII, No. 9, 1986. 

18)       Raquel Chalfi, “What the Sunflower Said,” Home Planet News, 22 (Vol. 5 No.4), 1986, pp 16‑17. 

19)       Eyal Megged, “Stigmata,” Home Planet News, 22 (Vol. 5 No. 4), 1986, pp. 16‑17.

20)       ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑“Parting in Tivon,” “When I wrote My Name,” Poet Lore 81 No. 2, Summer 1986. 

21)       Ben Zion Ben Moshe, “Go Thee,” Home Planet News, 22 (Vol. 5 No. 4), 1986, 16‑17. 

22)       Arie Sivan, “If I Had,” Home Planet News, 22 (Vol. 5 No.4), 1986 pp. 16‑17. 

23)       ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑“Proposal to a Tourist,” Midstream, Vol XXXII, No. 9, November, 1986. 

24)       Yona Wollach, “Feelings,” Home Planet News, 22 (Vol. 5 No. 4), 1986 pp. 16‑17. 

25)       Dan Pagis, “Fragments of a Lament to A Friend,” Midstream, August/ September 1986, 14. 

26)       Yehuda Amichai, “I Guard the Children in the Schoolyard,” “Late Wedding,” “A Dangerous Land,” “Evening with the Children,” “Freed,” “The One and Only Door,” “The Laundry Basement,” “In a Rustic Inn on Germany,” and “From Man you are and to Man You Shall Return,” Tel Aviv Review, 1, Jan 1988, 9‑27. 

27)       Mordechai Geldmann, “A Plant, “Mr. Death,” Tel Aviv Review, January 1988, V. 1, 289‑292. 

28)       Raquel Halfi, “Painful Yellow, “Cypress will Forever Arise,” Tel Aviv Review, January 1988, V. 1, 293‑298. 

29)       Asher Reich, “Desire,” “Cards and Love,” “Haifa in Winter,” Tel Aviv Review, January 1988, V. 1, 346‑347. 

30)       Ronny Somech, “The Virgins,” “How to Know the Age of a Horse,” Tel Aviv Review, January 1988, V. 1, 349‑352. 

31)       Abba Kovner, “At A Hotel,” Poetics: A Spice Box,” Israel Horizons, Spring, 1988, 22. 

32)       Zelda Mishovsky, “Each Man Has A Name,” New Traditions, Spring, 1989. Rpt. in Yitzhak Rabin – In Memoriam, Tel Aviv: English Association of Writers in English, December 1995, 19.

33)       Raya Harnick, “Your Socks,” “And At Night,” Lips, Spring, 1987. 

34)       Yehudit Cafri, “Behind the Lines,” Lips, Spring, 1988. 

35)       Giora Leshem, “My Mother’s Tongue,” Midstream, Spring, 1988. 

36)       Yehuda Amichai, “Iguard the Children in the School Yard,” “New York University,” Prairie Schooner, Summer 1988, 79-80.

37)       ---------- “Jaffa Port,” Modern Hebrew Literature, Spring, 1989, No.2.  

38)       Yehuda Amichai, “Miracles,” Partisan Review. 

39)       ----------- “Dante Coffee House in New York,” Amelia Vol. V, No. 3, 1989, 126-127.

40)       Mordechai Geldmann, “Dream Girl,” Modern Hebrew Literature, Spring, 1989, No. 2. 

41)       Natan Yonatan, “Jaffa,” Modern Hebrew Literature, Spring, 1989, No. 2. 

42)       Asher Reich, “Heard on the Boardwalk,” Modern Hebrew Literature, Spring 1989, No. 2. 

43)       Arie Sivan, “A Miracle,” Modern Hebrew Literature, Spring, 1989, No. 2. 

44)       Mordechai Geldmann, “Spring,” “Bread,” Tel Aviv Review, III. 

45)       Azriel Kaufman, “Wisdom,” Bitterroot, V XXVIII, Summer 1989, #96, 49. 

46)       Yehuda Amichai, “What I learned in the Wars,” American Voice, September 1989, 74‑5. 

47)       Gabriela Elisha, “She Had Long Wings,” The Tribe of Dina, Boston: Beacon, 1989, 238‑9. 

48)       Yehuda Amichai, “We Did What Was Expected of Us,” Partisan Review Vol LVII Number 3, 429-30. Reprinted in Harpers, November, 1990, 30.

49)       Azriel Kaufman, “The Wisdom of Animals, “A Man Turns to the Mountain,” and “Kinneret,”  Ariel 91, 1993, 16-17.

50)       Rachel Halfi, “What the Sunflower Said,” LIPS 17, 1993, 44.

51)       Yehudit Cafri, “Behind the Lines,” LIPS 17 1993, 36

52)       Zelda, “Each Man,” LIPS 17, 1993, 108

53)       Hana Senesh, “My God,” LIPS 17, 1993, 130.

54)       Mordechai Geldmann, “The Friendly Dragon,” Mishkenot, 1993

55)       Yehuda Amichai, “Miracles,” Poetry New York

56)       Yehuda Amichai, “Ashkelon Beqch,” International Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 102.

57)       Elan Schoenfeld,  “night of war 1, night of war 6” International Quarterly

58)       Elan Schoenfeld, “Night of War 1” Poetry  New York       

59)       Yehuda Amichai, “Now She Breathes,” “Miracles,” “My Mother Died on Shevuot, Modern Poetry in Translation New Series, #4. Winter 1993-4, 16-17.

60)       Ronny Someck, “Red Riding Hood,” “Snow White in Jellazun Refugee Camp,” “Five Lines on Tom Thumb,” “Gretel,” Modern Poetry in Translation New Series, #4. Winter 1993-4, 90-92

61)       Natan Yonatan, “From the Hospital,” “What Happens to Me in Dreams,” Ariel, 98, November 1994, pp. 86, 88.

62)       Yehuda Amichai, “And Who Will Remember Those Who Remember?”  Prairie Schooner, Winter 1995, 133-135.

63)       Mordechai Geldman, “Porno,” Michigan Quarterly Review, September, 1995

64)       Rony Someck, “Kikar Malkey Yisrael. The Day After,” Yitzhak Rabin – In Memoriam, Tel Aviv: English Association of Writers in English, December 1995, 4.

65)       Dahlia Ravikovitch, “An Unsatisfactory Answer To the Question,” Yitzhak Rabin – In Memoriam, Tel Aviv: English Association of Writers in English, December 1995, 7.

66)       Mordechai Geldmann, “Bread,” “Spring,” Object Lesson #11,  1996, 19-23.

67)       Naim Araidi, “Quiet in the Village,” “If Only,” “From Season to Season,” “In Memory of Farid El Atrash,” Back to the Village.  Herzlia: Levant, 1994.

68)       Nazih Khere, “Identity,” Crab Creek Review, 1996.

69)       Yehuda Amichai, “The Body,” “A Memory of Love,” “Jerusalem,” Crab Creek Review, 1996.

70)       Sabena Messag, “Defection,” “Like Couples in Movies,” Crab Creek Review, 1996.

71)       Itzik Manger, “Queen Vashti Goes to Her Hanging,” Living Text, 2, Winter 1997, 6.

72)       Asher Reich, “The Book,” Living Text, 5, 1999, 5.

73)       -------------, “Words for a Photograph,” Ariga. http://www.ariga.com/visions/poetry/ashereich001.shtml

74)       Asher Reich, “The Universe Has Vanished,” “Listen to Me Deaf Love,” “The Flight Goes On,” Ariga. http://www.ariga.com/visions/poetry/asher.shtml

75)       Yehuda Amichai, “On Rabbi Kook’s Street,” Ariga. http://www.ariga.com/visions/poetry/amihai01.shtml

76)       Yehuda Amichai, “A color painting with a plowman,” “Memorial Days are now over,” “I know a man who made himself the ideal woman of his desires,” “I believe with perfect faith in the resurrection of the dead,” “Even for solitary prayer two are needed,” The Jerusalem Review, 4, 1999/2000, 24-26.

77)       Iris Le'al, “Do-It-Yourself Death,” The Drunken Boat Spring 2000 Issue 1. http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/lealpoetry.htm

78)       Tomer Ben Zion, “Letter from the Land of the Dead,” The Drunken Boat Spring 2000 Issue 1. http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/benzionpoetry.htm

79)       Leah Rudnitsky, “Birds Are Dreaming on the Branches,” The Drunken Boat Spring 2000 Issue 1. http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/rudnitsky.htm

80)       Miriam Baruch Chalfi, “Seashell,” “Even the Colors of the Flowers,” “Eclipse,” The Drunken Boat Summer 2000 Issue 2 (with Raquel Chalfi). http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/baruchchalfi.htm

81)       Raquel Chalfi, “All The,” The Drunken Boat Summer 2000 Issue 2 (with Raquel Chalfi).  http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/chalfi.htm

82)       Yaffa Zins, “Epstein-Nidriosbach August 1996,” The Drunken Boat Summer 2000 Issue 2.  http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/zins.htm

83)       Yehuda Amichai, from “Gods Come and Go, Prayers Remain Forever,” The Drunken Boat Summer 2000 Issue 2. http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/amichai.htm

84)       Yael Globerman, “She Returns,” Poetry Ireland Review, Issue 74. Ed. Michael Smith. Dublin: Poetry Ireland Ltd., 2002. 65.

85)       Yehuda Amichai, “The Jewish Time Bomb,” The Kenyon Review, Vol. XXIV, No. 3/4. Summer/Fall 2002. 1-2.

86)        Mordechai Geldman, “The Road,” “View from Cafe Milano,” “Cafe,” “Spring,” “Another Poet,” “Azure,” “Final Interview,” “Line,” “Returning to Tel Aviv,” Returning to Tel Aviv, (CD), Israel Music Institute (IMI-CD-06), Ron Weidberg and Mordechai Geldman, 2002.

87)       Asher Reich, "The Book," "Snapshots," "Our Blood Is the World's Petrol," "Haifa in Winter," "A Lonely Woman" (with Vivian Eden), "This Plenty" (with Vivian Eden), "Listen to Me Deaf Love," "Patches," "Cable," "The Flight Goes On," The Poetry of Asher Reich – Portrait of a Hebrew Poet, Yair Mazor, Madison Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. 63, 64, 67, 68, 71-2, 73, 77, 82, 93, 102-3.

88)       Natan Yonatan, "And the Rotem Would Whiten," "A Possible Introduction to an Epilogue," "Always Along the Shore," Within the Song to Live – Selected Poems (Bilingual Edition), Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, 2005. 109, 119-121, 137.

89)       Sabina Messeg, "Kinneret, Spring," arc 17, Summer 2005. 13.

FICTION 

1)      Eda Zorritte, “Jasmine,” Ariel, 47, 1978, 90‑118. 

2)      ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑“Absolution,” Webster Review, 1977. 

3)      Dahn Ben Amotz, “Buon Gourno, Valentina,”  Libido.

DRAMA 

1.      Dan Horowitz, “Cherlika‑Cherli,”  Modern Israeli Drama, An Anthology, ed. Herbert S. Joseph. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1983, pp. 216‑241.

2.      Joseph Mundi, The Power of a Dream. http://www.karenalkalay-gut.com/MUNDI.htm

 

(E) TRANSLATION INTO HEBREW MADE BY ALKALAY-GUT

La Loca, "Why You Should Only Take Black Men as Your Lovers," Iton 77, 144-145, January-February 1992, 60-61.

 

OTHER ACTIVITIES

(A) POETRY READINGS

Poetry readings have been given at the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C., 1986, 1995), The Kennedy Center (1998), The United Nations (1994), numerous universities and museums in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom -such as Rutgers, University of Buffalo, New York University, Wayne State University, Delaware, Farmingdale, Ottawa, and Oxford, and other public institutions including Santa Croce Church in Florence, Italy, Makor and the Y in New York, the American Cultural Center, the British Council and the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv and Mishkenot and the Chan in Jerusalem.  Readings have also been given at The Knitting Factory, the Nuyorican Café and other venues in New York as well as in London.

(B) RADIO AND TELEVISION APPEARANCES

Radio appearances on PBS: Canada and USA, WBAI: New York, Adelphi University Radio and other university radio stations in the United States. In Israel, radio appearances on numerous and various programs from “Musagim” with Hedva Yissachar and “Literature” with Eyal Megged, to “Sichot Ishiyot” with Yakov Agmon, to “Ehud Manor,” Elana Zuckerman,  “Rivka Michaeli.” 

 

Television:  Regular panel member on "Leila, Leila," Channel 8, 2002.   TV appearances on “Tachana Mercazit,” “Guy Pines,” “BiKriah Rishona” with Avirama Golan, Leila Leila, and Prime Time in Israel and International Cable TV - New York.   Morning Show, Channel 10, May 20, 2005, Zman Leomanut – interview with Benny Levin – channel 77 –  May 2, 2005, IBA news – talk on Saul Bellow – Channel 1 – April, 2005, 

Café Theatron – with Noam Semel – September 2004, Tal Gordon – December 2003, Music – Yes Plus – August 2003

 (C) LISTINGS                                                                               

Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in U.S. Writers, Editors and Poets, Poets and Writers, The World Who’s Who of Women, International Authors and Writers Who’s Who, Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of International Biography.                                                 

(D) SELECTED MEDIA PROJECTS AND COURSES

 

1.  POETRY  AND THE PLASTIC ARTS - INSTALLATION

“Body Crafts,”  Bianelle, annual exhibition at Ein Hod in 1997.

 

2.  POETRY AND JAZZ

In addition to several significant appearances, including a program at the Kennedy Center with Liz Magnes, a CD with Liz Magnes, represents some of the recent work with music and poetry.

 

3.  POETRY AND ROCK

Recording with Ziv Yonatan, “Lies” – audio and video.

 

4.  POETRY AND NEW AGE

"Thin Lips" with RoiYarkoni and Ishay Sommer, Pookh Records, 2003. http://pookh.com/

 

5.  POETRY AND DIGITAL ANIMATION
”Dance”: A Multimedia Installation based on joint poem with Nathalie Handal, by Alexandra Handal. Presented at WILL, a Multi-Disciplinary Group Exhibition about Negotiating Peace, Toronto, Canada, June-July 2003.

 

6.   VIDEO CLIP: Saper Li (Tell Me)
Music:  Thin Lips
Director: Anat Shai
Vocals, Principle Cast: Karen Alkalay-Gut, Yossi Tayyeb.

 

ARTICLES AND REVIEWS OF ALKALAY-GUT

(A) ARTICLES CONCERNING RESEARCH OF ALKALAY‑GUT                                           

 

1)      Benny Ziffer, “Sifrut Al Kav HaMotnaim” (Literature of the Waistline), Ha’aretz, December 30, 1983.

2)      Eyal Megged, “Interview on Women’s Poetry,”  Yidiot Achronot, June 24, 1983.            

3)      Randy Jo Land, “Is War ‘Men’s Business’?”  Jerusalem Post, January 3, 1988, 5.

4)      Erica Ozerman, "Satan O Malach" ("Satan Or Angel"), Yarchon Naamat (Hebrew), 113, February 1989, 54-56.

5)      Maya Bahir, “Hatkufa HaAvuda Shel Adelaide Crapsey,” (“The Lost Times of Adelaide Crapsey,”  Yediot Achronot (Hebrew), June 21, 1989, 20.                                              

6)      Arylln Millhouse, “Rocking to the Meter,” Jerusalem Post, March 12, 1993.

7)      Ofra Landau, “The Poetics of Cancer,” (Hebrew: On Women and Cancer), Hadashot, November 26, 1993.

8)      Tal Asher, “Women Poets and Madness,” (Hebrew) Esrim Plus, March, 1994.

9)      Shlomzion Kenan, “Likro Shira BeRoxanne,” (Hebrew) Shishi, July 15, 1994, 34.

10)  Eilat Negev, “Oscar Wilde,” Yidiot Achronot, reprinted in Personal Talks, 1994.

11)  Yael Hashiloni-Dolev, “Small Poems from Great Agonies, (on Dorothy Parker,)” Tzomet Hasharon, August 8, 1995, 61.

12)  Don L. F. Nilsen, Humor in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century British Literature: A Reference Guide. London, Westport: Greenwood, 1998, pp 251, 254.

(B) SELECTED REVIEWS OF ALONE IN THE DAWN                                                 

1)  Washington Post, March 5, 1989.                                                   

2)  David George, Jerusalem Post, June 23, 1989, 17.                                  

3)  Ruth Whitman, Choice, June 1989.                                                   

4)  Edward Butscher, The Georgia Review, Autumn, 1989.                            

5)  Jane Gillette, American Studies International, October, 1989.                 

6)  Genevieve Carminati, “Life Cut Short,” American Book Review, March‑April 1990.                 

7)  David Middleton, “The Immortal Residue,”  Sewanee Review,  Spring 1990.                          

8)  Susan Lurie, American Literature, Winter 1990, 723‑4.                           

9)  Nina Baym, American Studies, 1990.                                                          

10)  Peter Easingwood, Lionel Kelly, and David Seed, This Year’s Work in English Studies, V. 70. 

11)  Philip T, Stevick.  Journal of Modern Literature Annual Review, 1990.

(C) SELECTED ARTICLES CONCERNING POETRY OF ALKALAY‑GUT 

1)      Yoram Kaniuk, “Kadish O Safari be’Bronx”, MAARIV Literary Supplement, January 9, 1981. 

2)      David Twersky, “Symphony of Light”, JERUSALEM POST MAGAZINE, May 22, 1981.

3)      Terry Brody, “Cricket Chirps in the Capital”, NEWSVIEW, August 25, 1981, pp. 26‑7. 

4)      Elan Sheinfeld, “Hitkomemut Mesuyeget”, AL HAMISHMAR, September 11, 1981.

5)      Elan Sheinfeld, “Hayu k’Ilmim”, MIGVAN, January, 1982, No. 66, pp. 63‑6. 

6)      “Mishkenot Shaananim”, HA’IR, December 17, 1982. 

7)      Eyal Megged, “Interview on Women’s Poetry”, YEDIOT ACHRONOT, June 24, 1983. 

8)      Eyal Megged, “Litfos Rosh Nashi”, BAMACHANE, p. 65, July 10, 1983. 

9)      Dalia Shavit, “Shirei Huledet Belashon Moledet” (“Poems of the Homeland in the Language of the Motherland”) DAVAR, July 11, 1983, p. 9.

10)  Ziv Kuper, “Pislei Ceimar,” “Clay Sculptures” RECHOV RASHI, July 27, 1983, p. 28. 

11)  “Al Call Hanekavim Hachatumim,” (“On All the Sealed Orifices”) YOMAN HASHAVUAH, August 8, 1983, p. 35. 

12)  Giora Leshem, “Otzma Shel Guf Varegesh” (Daring of Body and Senses”), YEDIOT ACHRONOT, Saturday Supplement, December 23, 1983. 

13)  Efrat Oz, “Milim Bemetav Sidran” (“Words in their best order”), AL HAMISHMAR, Saturday Supplement, December 23, 1983. 

14)  Benny Ziffer, “Sifrut Al Kav HaMotnaim” (“Literature of the Waistline”), HA’ARETZ, Saturday Supplement, December 30, 1983. 

15)  Shmuel Shatal, “25 Meshorerot Ohavot” (“25 Loving Poets,” review of Isha Ohevet) MA’ARIV, November 22, 1985. 

16)  “The Women’s Room: Isha Ohevet” HA’ARETZ, August 23, 1985, p. 15. 

17)  Ziv Cooper, “Keren Or VeShir” YISRAEL SHELANU, Vol. 7 No. 36‑36 Apr 22, 1986, 48‑49. 

18)  “Shira, Masoret, vePost Modernism” (Poetry, Tradition, and Post Modernism”) AL HAMISHMAR. October 3, 1986, pp. 26, 34. 

19)  ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑, “Edna LeShira Yisraelit BeNuYork.” ISRAEL SHELANU, October 17, 1986, 46‑7. 

20)  Donald Lev, “Featured Poet: Karen Alkalay‑Gut” HOME PLANET NEWS, April, 1989. 

21)  Frederick Raborg, Review of Mechitza, AMELIA, V. 10, No. 3, 1987, 125.

22)  Lily Ratok, MOZNAIM, July, 1988, 58‑62. 

23)  Susan Katz, Review of Mechitza, BITTERROOT, V. 27 No. 94, Autumn 1988, 70. 

24)  Blake Green, “Getting the Writers to Read.” Newsday, September 27, 1989, pp.11, 18. 

25)  “He Sophrim Olim Lemata,” Tsomet Hasharon, February 23, 1990, 44-5.

26)  Jeanne Heifetz, Interview, Forward, December 11, 1990. 

27)  Renee Singer, “Poetic Zionism,” Israel Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 53, Oct 1990, 19. 

28)  “From Rochester to Tel Aviv,” Tel Aviv University News, Spring 1991, 19‑20. 

29)  Eilan Sheinfeld, “Rabotei, Hahistoria Mitmachzeret!” Studio, April‑May, 1991, 25. 

30)  Arlynn Millhouse, “Rocking to the Meter,” Jerusalem Post, March 12, 1993.

31)  Aliza Naor, “Hameshoreret Hayisraelit,” Bamat Haisha, March 1993, 11.

32)  Moshe Zinger, “Kol Yechudi,” Yidiot Achronot, September 2, 1994, 29.

33)  Eran Novak, “Lihiyot Meshoreret,” Tsomet Hasharon, August 12, 1994, 103.

34)  Efrat Mishori, “Lihiyot Meshoreret,” Ma’ariv, September 30, 1994, 31.

35)  Sefi Shefer, “Kechol she’ata mitkarev, ata roeh pachot,” Ha’Aretz, Sefarim #98, January 11, 1995, 7

36)  Jeffrey Green,” Reading from Right to Left,” Jerusalem Post, October 14, 1994.

37)  Ran Yagil, “Ktiva Mesugnenet Mesugim Shonim” Moznaim, January 1995, 61.

38)  Rafi Weichert, Review, Achshav, January 1995.

39)  R. R. Lee Ezwiler, Review of RECIPES, TAPROOT, March 1995, 3.

40)  Alicia Ostriker, Review of IGNORANT ARMIES, LILITH, Spring, 1995, 28-30.

41)  Shmuel Shatal, “Simple, Wise and Laughing,” Review of Me/You and More Poems, Jerusalem Post, May 15, 1997, 6.

42)  Mike Scheidemann, “Lyrical Expression,” Review of  RECIPES, Jerusalem Post, February 26, 1996, 25.

43)  Iris LeAl, Review of Paranormal Poems, Ma’ariv,  April, 1997.

44)  Jeff Green, “Reading from Right to Left,” Jerusalem Post, May 15m 1997, 6.

45)  Michal Sapir, Review of Paranormal Poems, HaDoar,  May 1997.

46)  Fukunishi, Laura, “Intolerable Geographies and Strategies for Peace in the Paranormal: Israeli Poet, Karen Alkalay-Gut,” Kobe National University Bulletin, No. 52, June 25, 1997.

47)  “Marching to a Different Muse,” The Jerusalem Report, August 21, 1997, 46-7.

48)  Shelley Foyer Shinular, “Haziot ba Taarucha (Brasierres on Exhibit)” Ma’ariv, Women’s Supplement, October 19, 1997, 2.

49)  Angela Levine, “Carnival time at Nahal Hod,” Jerusalem Post, October 17, 1997.

50)  Helen Kaye, “Interview” Jerusalem Post, July 1998.

51)  Nikki Stiller, “Confessions of a Frequent Flyer: American and Israel in the Work of Karen Alkalay-Gut,” HaShofar, Winter 1998, Vol 16, No. 2, 25-31.

52)  Nurit Barsky, “Yoztet mearon habegadim” (“Coming out of the Closet”) Ma’ariv, Signon, July 14, 1999, 20-1.

53)  Haim Chertok, “Our Wardrobes, Our Selves” Jerusalem Post, August 13, 1999.

54)  Rafi Weichert, “Hahaim bemtzaut haBgadim,” (Life through Clothes) Maariv, September 17, þ1999, 27.

55)  Shmuel Shatal, “Emet Eruma veNoraa” (“The Naked and Terrible Truth”) Ha’aretz, October 6, 1999, 7.

56)  Shulamit Hava Halevi, “Tsilo Shel Aron HaZichronot” (“The Shadow of the Memories Closet”), Iton 77, 248. 12. http://www.pookh.com/HebrewSite/Press_articles/Keren/Karen-Alkakay-Gut--Iton-77.html

57)  Nikki Stiller, A Review of The Love of Clothes and Nakedness, Home Planet News, 46 (Vol. 11. No. 4), Summer 2000, 6.

58)  Aviya Kushner, “From the Desert to the Sea: Israeli Writing Today,” Poets and Writers, Nov/Dec 2001, 54-58.

59)  Sharon Moldavi, Customer Review of In My Skin, July 2001. http://israel.vacationbookreview.com/israel_35.html

60)  Aaron Levy, "Award-Winning, Published Author Reads Poetry," The Daily Targum, October 10, 2002. http://www.dailytargum.com/news/2002/10/10/News/AwardWinning.Published.Author.Reads.Poetry-293869.shtml

61)  L. Kiew, Martin Grampound, Polly Bird, Reviews of Recipes – Love Soup and Other Poems, The Love of Clothes & Nakedness, and In My Skin, New Hope International Review On-Line, 2003. http://www.nhi.clara.net/bs0110.htm

62)  Gershon Giron, "Hemeshoreret Cecochevet Rock," (The Poet as Rock Star), Okapi, October 2003.  http://www.okapi.co.il/october2003/trans/trans5.html

63)   Sharon Ashuri, "Biladi Biladi" ("Comparisons of Translations of the poem, 'Recital' by Karen Alkalay-Gut"), Okapi, 8, October 2003. http://www.okapi.co.il/october2003/trans/trans4.html

64)  Ruth Knafo Setton, “Night Reading: Hunger Artists—Voices from Israel,” JBooks, 2003. http://www.jbooks.com/content/06-2001/nightjune.php

65)  Michal Palti, "Shir Hu Lo Rak Milim" (A Poem Is More than Words), HaAretz, February 25, 2004. http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=398040&contrassID=2
http://www.pookh.com/HebrewSite/Press_articles/Thin_Lips/Thin-Lips-Haaretz-25-02-04.html

66)  Review of Thin Lips, Kolbo Haifa, February 27, 2004 (reprinted from Achbar HaIr, Roy Hareven). http://www.pookh.com/HebrewSite/Press_articles/Thin_Lips/Thin-Lips-Kolbo-Haifa-27-2-04.html

67)  Review of Thin Lips, 42 Maalot, March 2004. http://www.pookh.com/HebrewSite/Press_articles/thin_lips/thin-lips-42-Maalot-March-2004.html

68)  Tal Gordon, “Thin Lips – A Review,” HaBama, March 2, 2004. http://www.habama.co.il/newsComplete.asp?id=948&Nimg=2&subject=news&page=pla

69)  Shay Lahav, “Shuv Natchil MeHadash” (Here We Go Again), Ma’ariv, March 4, 2004. http://www.maariv.co.il/cache/ART661346.html

70)  Troy, "A Review of Thin Lips" (reprinted from the Haifa edition of Achbar HaIr), March 9, 2004. http://www.troy.co.il/forum/read.php?f=1&i=3141&t=3141

71)  Yoram Mark-Reich, “Ad Rock, Musica, Lehitim VaOd,” Yediot Haifa, March 12, 2004. http://www.pookh.com/HebrewSite/Press_articles/Thin_Lips/Thin-lips-yediot-haifa-12-3-04.html

72)  Chen Naval, “Review of Thin Lips,” Muzica, March 26, 2004. http://www.muzica.co.il/article.php?sid=433

73)  Ronen Tsomer, “HaAlternativa shel Roi Yarkonio” (Roi Yarkoni’s Alternative), YNET, March 28, 2004. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2893226,00.html

74)  Viva Sarah Press, “Sabra Sounds: Anonymous Singer,” Jerusalem Post Website, April 4, 2004. http://www.pookh.com/HebrewSite/Press_articles/Pookh_on_web/Thin_Lips-Jerusalem_Post_04-04-2004.htm

75)  Review of Thin Lips, Wayside Music Website, April 2004. http://www.pookh.com/HebrewSite/Press_articles/Pookh_on_web/Wayside_Music-Thin_Lips-04-2004.htm

76)  Chen Naval, “Thin Lips,” Indie Website, April 4, 2004. http://www.pookh.com/HebrewSite/Press_articles/Pookh_on_web/Thin_Lips-Indie-04-04-2004.htm

77)  François Couture, “Thin Lips,” All Music Guide Website (AMG), May 18, 2004. http://www.pookh.com/HebrewSite/Press_articles/Pookh_on_web/All_Music_Guide-Thin_Lips-18-5-04.htm

78)  Vitaly Menshikov, Review of Thin Lips, Progressor – Uzbekistan Progressive Rock Pages, May 19, 2004. http://www.progressor.net/review/thin_lips_2004.html

79)  Ronny Somech, "When Karen Met Kafka," Iton 77, 291, June 2004. 6.

80)  Dana Amir, "Oto Ra'av Lashuv Ladava SheMujar Lanu" ("The Same Hunger to Return to the Familair"), Review of Ta'avot Shuliot, Ha'Aretz, June 7, 2004. http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=436240&contrassID=2&subContrassID=12&sbSubContrassID=0

81)  Lisa N. Goldman, "Singing about Life with Her Words," Anglo File Ha'Aretz, August 27, 2004. A8. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/470003.html

82)  Shmuel Shatal, "Targum Yafeh KeMakor" ("A Translation as Fine as the Original"), Moznaim, 5, August 2004. 52-53.

83)  Yoram, K, Review of Thin Lips, The Blind Janitor, September 1, 2004. http://www.hasharat.co.il/html/article_6070.php

84)  Atira Winchester, “Progressive Poetry,” Jerusalem Post, October 25, 2004. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1098677407827

85)  Thin Lips Concert Review Thread, Nana. http://forums.nana.co.il/Message/MessageFull.asp?MsgID=5969574

86)  Thin Lips Review Thread, YNet. http://www.ynet.co.il/home/0,7340,L-1721-288,00.html

87)  Atira Winchester, "Beauty in the Banal," Jerusalem Post, February 4, 2005. 27. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer&cid=1107746393198&p=1006953079969

88)  Lisa N. Goldman, "Universal Themes in a Specific Context," Haaretz English Edition, Culture Supplement No. 4 (special edition), February 2005.

89)  David Gershator, Review of So Far So Good, Home Planet News 52 (Vol. 13, No. 20), Spring 2005. 6,18.

90)  Gabriel Moked, "Feminist Poems – From London to Tel Aviv," Akhshav 69/70, Spring 2005. 390.

91)  Biography Entry, Contemporary Authors, Thomson Gale, January 1 2004.

92)  Alicia Ostriker, "Loosening up the Mother Tongue," JBooks.com, May 2005.  http://www.jbooks.com/interviews/index/IP_Ostriker_Alkalay_Gut.htm

 

 

Reviews have also appeared in MAARIV, YOMAN HASHAVUA, KOTERET RASHIT, DAVAR, POETRY CALENDAR, EAST END NEWS, HOME PLANET NEWS, AMELIA, TAPROOT, BITTERROOT and other journals. 

(D) INTERVIEWS WITH ALKALAY-GUT

1)         Wilthmann, Ingrid. Only in Eternity Is There No Exile, Rauhreif, 1997. 418-430. (German).

2)         Ya’oz, Hannah. Psefas, Vol. 37, 1998, 14-17. (Hebrew).

3)         Kudish, Daffi. HaDoar, Vol. LXXXII, No. 1, 2002, 62-65.

4)         Highland, August. m.a.g., Spring, 2003. http://www.muse-apprentice-guild.com/spring_2003/karenalkalaygut-interview/home.html

5)         Corina Hasofferett. Nofey HaNefesh (A Minyan of Lovers), Tel Aviv: HudnaPress, 2003. 121-134. (Hebrew).

6)         Corina Hasofferett. Internet Site. June 2003. http://www.notes.co.il/corinna/839.asp

7)         "Hadar Avoda," Literary Supplement Yediot Ahronot, February 20, 2004.

8)         Ben-David, Aviah. Iton Tel-Aviv, November 12, 2004. http://www.tam.co.il/12_11_2004/tarbut-ofna.htm

9)         Yaoz-Kest, Itamar and Hana. Psefas Winter Volume 2004/5. 8-12.

10)       Frattini, Davide. Corriere della Sera, April 12, 2005. 35. http://www.informazionecorretta.com/showPage.php?template=rassegna&id=5474

 

 

 

POETRY PUBLICATIONS

(A) SELECTED BOOKS

1)         Making Love: Poems. Tel Aviv: Achshav, 1980.    

2)         Butter Sculptures (Hebrew).  Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1983.                                          

3)         Mechitza.  New York: Cross‑Cultural Communications, 1986.

4)         Ignorant Armies.  Tel Aviv: Tentative Press, 1992.                                                           

5)         Between Bombardments.  Tel Aviv: Tentative Press, 1992.

6)         Love Soup.  Tel Aviv: Tentative Press, 1992.        

7)         High School Girls.  Tel Aviv: Tentative Press, 1992.

8)         Recipes.  Tel Aviv: Golan, 1994.

9)         Harmonies/Disharmonies.  Etc. Editions, 1994.

10)       Ignorant Armies.  New York: Cross Cultural Communications, 1994.

11)       I/Thou and Other War Poems (Hebrew).  Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1994.

12)       Paranormal Poems (Hebrew) Gvanim, 1997.

13)       Life in Israel -November 1995-1996 Whistle Press, 1997. http://www.poetrypub.org/download/kagut.pdf

14)       The Love of Clothes and Nakedness Federation of Writers’ Unions, 1999.

15)       The Love of Clothes and Nakedness (Hebrew) Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1999.

16)       In My Skin.  Tel Aviv: Federation of Writers’ Unions, 2000.

17)       High Maintenance.  Calgary: Neamh Press, 2002.

18)       Avracadivra. Zbooks, 2002.

19)       Ta’avot Shuliot (Hebrew). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2004.

20)       So Far So Good. Tel Aviv: Sivan - Federation of Writers’ Unions, 2004.

 

(B) POEM PUBLICATIONS

                                                                          

Poetry has appeared in The American Voice, Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, Bitterroot, Webster Review, Cedermere Review, Moving Out, Lilith, The Double, arc, Argo, New Outlook, Jewish Frontier, Jerusalem Post, Ariel, Hoopoe, grasshopper, Forward, Jewish Quarterly, Israel Horizons, Present Tense, London Calling, Israel Magazine, Understanding, Gypsy,  War, Literature, and the  Arts, and other journals and anthologies.   Short stories have appeared in journals in New Zealand, Israel, Canada and the United States.   Translations into Italian, Spanish, Yiddish, French and Hebrew have been published in journals around the world.    Hundreds of translations of Hebrew poetry, fiction and drama by Yehuda Amichai, Asher Reich, Natan Yonatan, and others have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.

                                                                             

1)         “Emily,” Bitterroot, New York, 1978.                              

2)         “From the Pen of Maud Gonne,” “The Stripper,”  “So Flantz,” “Love,” “Separation,” The Double, New Zealand, 1979.                 

3)         “Nude Descending a Staircase,” and 17 other poems, The Tel Aviv English Poets, Tel Aviv, 1980. 

4)         “Deflections,” Webster Review, Webster Groves, Mo., 1980.          

5)         “Jungle,” “You Always,”  Bitterroot, New York, 1982.              

6)         “Klute,” “Lists,” “Credo,”  Shdemot, Tel Aviv, 1982.               

7)         “Last Portraits:  Anne Sexton,” Argo, September, 1982.             

8)         “Nightmare,” “The Boys,”  New Outlook, September, 1982.            

9)         11 Poems, ARC, No.1, 1983, 3-8.                                                

10)       “Mornings,” Now, December 30, 1983.                               

11)       “Only in Pain,” Bitterroot, January, 1984.                        

12)       “His Neck,” “Night Rider,” Webster Review, Vol 9, No. 2, 1985.                                                                

13)       “Skiing on the Sea of Galilee,” and “Tel Aviv,” Cedermere Review, September 1985, 28.                   

14)       “Resemblances,” Shdemot, July 1985.                               

15)       “Much Laboring,” “I’m So Glad,” “Friend and Foe,” “Mechitza,” “To One in Beirut,” Lips. 1987.            

16)        “History,” Jewish Frontier, Feb/Mar, 1986, 15.                    

17)       “Domestic Dinner,” Lilith, No. 15, Summer 1986, 32.                                  

18)       “I’m So Glad,” and “Family Vacation in Banias,” Massachusetts Review, 1986.      

19)       “I am Thinking of You,” Bitterroot, Spring, 1986.                 

20)       “Soutine,” “A Lithuanian Legacy,” Home Planet News, 22, Spring 1986, 16-17.                                          

21)         “Hot Weather in Tel Aviv,” “You Learned, I Learned,” “Living,” La’inyan. Fall, 1986, 9.                        

22)       “Disposal,” “Inheritance,”  Bitterroot, Fall, 1987, 51.           

23)       “Gaza‑1974,” and “Yiddish Folk Shule,” Response, xv, #3, Spring 1987, 66‑8.                                           

24)        “Othello,” “Posters,” and “Isaac,”  Bitterroot, Fall, 1987, 43.                                                                  

25)       “Hostage Crisis,” Jerusalem Post, November 20, 1987.              

26)       “Sometimes Sex,” “Fiat,” Newark Review, September 1987.           

27)       “I Explain Darwin,” Present Tense, March‑April, 1988, 8.          

28)       “Lessons,” Israel Horizons, Vol. 36 No. 1/2 Spring 1988, 24.                     

29)       America,” Hoopoe, Spring, 1988, 14.                              

30)       “Transportation,” LIPS, #14, 26.                                  

31)       “Friend and Foe,” “To One in Beirut,”  Women on War, ed. Daniella Gioseffi, Simon and Schuster, 1988, 76‑77.  American Book Award, 1990.                                                     

32)       “Hostage Crisis,” Prairie Schooner, v. 62, #2, Summer 1988, 77‑9.                                                         

33)         “Zebra,” Trapani Nuova, June 24, 1988, 3.                         

34)       “Chicken Soup,” “Inheritance,” Jewish Ledger, September, 1988.                                                           

35)       “Illness,” “I Explain Darwin to the Rebbe,” “Yiddish Folk Shule - 1952,” “3 Bargains,” “Yom Kippur 1988,” “Life Goes On,”  Home Planet News #26, July 1989, 12-13.                                                     

36)       “Memory,” Bitterroot, v 28. Summer 1989, #96, 35.                 

37)       “Figure and Ground,” “Train,” “Mount Sinai,” “A Flat City,” “Relativity,” “Paranoia,” “Transportation,” “DeQuincey,” “Returning to Tel Aviv,” “Hot Weather in Tel Aviv,” Tel Aviv Review II, 1989.                 

38)             “The Temple at Banias,” “Commitments,” “Lessons,” arc, 1989.      

39)       “Procedures,” “Philosophy,” Voices, 1989.                         

40)       “Returning to Tel Aviv,” Ariel, N. 77‑78, 1989, 155‑6.            

41)       “Poets in Their Youth,”  “Flowers,” “A Poet Writes,” Webster Review.                                              

42)       “Friend and Foe,” “Mechitza,” “To One in Beirut,” The Tribe of Dina.  Boston: Beacon, 1989, 240‑5. 

43)        “A Visitor,” Massachusetts Review, Summer 1990. v31, Autumn ‘90 p340. 

44)       “Zebra,” ABC Bestiary by Alfred Van Loen, Cross‑Cultural Communications, 1990.                            

45)        “Concerning the Text,” Trapani Nuova, March 23, 1990, 3.          

46)       “Mobilization,” London Calling, September 1990.  Reprinted in Israel Magazine, September 1990.     

47)       “Keepers of My Youth,” Forward, December 14, 1990.                

48)       “Ulysses,” Il Foglio Volante, November‑ December 1990, 5.         

49)       from “Between Bombardments, ii, vi, xiii”  Forward, March 1, 1991.            

50)       Vietnam and the Gulf,” Trapani Nuova, March 8, 1991, 3.          

51)       “Safe Room,” Jewish Quarterly, Spring, 1991.                      

52)       “Lovers,” American Voice, Summer, 1991                            

53)       “Living,” Ariel, No. 85-86, 1991, 11

54)       “Love Behind Gas Masks,” from Between Bombardments, Jerusalem Post, February 4, 1992, 7.          

55)       “Lovers,” PEN Israel 1992.                                                      

56)       “Holyland,” Moving Out, Vol. 15, No. 1+2, 1993, 24.                                           

57)       “Love Soup,” Prairie Schooner, Summer, 1992, 66-71.  Readers’ Choice Award, 1992.                        

58)        “Holyland at Night,” “Keepers of my Youth,” Lilith                

59)       “Shudder Hunger” Impetus                                         

60)       “Reader Response,” “Rock Concert.” GYPSY, 19, 1992, 12-13.                         

61)       “Fear and I Were Born Twins,” Understanding, No. 4, 1992, 50.                                            

62)       “black wine”  honorable mention  Poetic Pursuits 

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