Listen to Bart Edelman!

Bart Edelman received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Hofstra University, and is currently a professor of English at Glendale College where he edits Eclipse, A Literary Journal. He has taught at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York, Santa Monica College, Long Beach City College, West Los Angeles College, and the UCLA Extension.

Most recently, he was appointed to the faculty of the Antioch University MFA program for poetry.

He has been awarded grants and fellowships from the United States Department of Education, the University of Southern California, and the L.B.J. School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and conducted literary research in India, Egypt, Nigeria, and Poland.

His poetry appears frequently in newspapers and journals, as well as textbooks and anthologies published by Cengage, City Lights Books, Etruscan Press, Harcourt Brace, McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, Pearson, Simon & Schuster, Thomson/Heinle, the University of Iowa Press, and Wadsworth. Collections of his work include Crossing the Hackensack (Prometheus Press, 1993), Under Damaris’ Dress (Lightning Publications, 1996), The Alphabet of Love (Red Hen Press, 1999), The Gentle Man (Red Hen Press, 2001), and The Last Mojito (Red Hen Press, 2005). 



His most recent collection is The Geographer’s Wife (Red Hen Press, 2012).