Upcoming Events June 4, 2006 Richard Jeffrey Newman    Richard Jeffrey Newman is an essayist, poet and translator who has been publishing his work since 1988. His work has appeared in Salon.com, The American Voice, On The Issues, The Pedestal, Circumference, Prairie Schooner, ACM, Birmingham Poetry Review, and other literary journals. The Silence Of Men, a book of his own poetry, is forthcoming from CavanKerry Press. He is currently translating selections from Saadi’s other masterpiece, the Bustan. Date: Sunday June 4, 2006 Time: 2 to 5 PM Gathering address: St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church 11 Ogden Court Huntington Station, NY 11746 Tel: 631-793-9928 Click for direction.

Upcoming Events

Please join us to welcome our guest speaker:
   
    Professor Richard Jeffrey Newman

Reading from his book:

      Saadi's "Golestan"
translation

    Saadi’s "Golestan", one of the best-loved masterpieces of Persian literature has been newly translated into English by Richard Jeffery Newman. The 168-page new translation has been published by Global Scholarly Publications in association with the International Society for Iranian Culture, both of which are based in the United States.
  
    Richard Jeffrey Newman is an essayist, poet and translator who has been publishing his work since 1988. His work has appeared in Salon.com, The American Voice, On The Issues, The Pedestal, Circumference, Prairie Schooner, ACM, Birmingham Poetry Review, and other literary journals. The Silence Of Men, a book of his own poetry, is forthcoming from CavanKerry Press. He is currently translating selections from Saadi’s other masterpiece, the Bustan.

   An Associate Professor in the English Department at Nassau Community College in Garden City, NY, where he teaches courses ranging from ESL Composition and Business Writing to Modern Poetry and the Theory of Comedy, Professor Newman chairs the International Education Committee, which sponsors an annual speaker series. In one of the first days of the Persian new year I interviewed Prof.  Newman and firstly asked him how did he learn Persian language: 

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