Henry Rasof

Henry Rasof has degrees in music, creative writing, and Jewish studies and has been writing poetry since 1964. After a long career in book publishing, he taught creative writing at the University of Denver and then at the Boulder Jewish Day School. He now leads occasional writing workshops for adults on subjects of Jewish interest, including incantation bowls, ethical wills, and liturgical poetry. His work has appeared in Jewish Currents, Kansas Quarterly, Midstream, Numinous, Partisan Review, Poetica, and the Boulder Jewish News; he has published four books of poetry and has created two Web sites--a personal site (henryrasof.com) and one on medieval Hebrew poetry (www.medievalhebrewpoetry.org). He lives in Colorado.