Rec­om­mend­ed Reading

Reis­sue of Note

Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
March 18, 2009

Reznikoff was one of the cen­tral fig­ures of the mod­ern move­ment in Amer­i­can poet­ry, and is con­sid­ered to be the poet for whom the term Objec­tivist was first coined.

More on Reznikoff can be found here.

And more on By the Waters of Man­hat­tan can be found here.

Orig­i­nal­ly from Lan­cast­er, Penn­syl­va­nia, Nao­mi is the CEO of Jew­ish Book Coun­cil. She grad­u­at­ed from Emory Uni­ver­si­ty with degrees in Eng­lish and Art His­to­ry and, in addi­tion, stud­ied at Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Lon­don. Pri­or to her role as exec­u­tive direc­tor, Nao­mi served as the found­ing edi­tor of the JBC web­site and blog and man­ag­ing edi­tor of Jew­ish Book World. In addi­tion, she has over­seen JBC’s dig­i­tal ini­tia­tives, and also devel­oped the JBC’s Vis­it­ing Scribe series and Unpack­ing the Book: Jew­ish Writ­ers in Conversation.

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