Zack Rogow

Gratitude to the French arts magazine TK-21 for showcasing an excerpt of the collaboration combining dazzling images by the photographer Olga Caldas with poems of mine in English and French. tk-21.com/À-même-les-élé…

Many thanks to John Busbee of @TheCultureBuzz podcast for interviewing me about my new collection, The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens and Other Poems on Aging. archive.org/details/zack-r…

For decades I avoided reading Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus, the novel that was the summit of his career. I finally read it and I've posted a blog about this book that has some of Mann's most difficult and most lyrical and insightful writing. zackrogow.blogspot.com/2026/04/thomas…

I will discuss my new book of poems, The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens and Other Poems on Aging, at the Commonwealth Club @cwclub in San Francisco on June 24. I'll be in conversation with Steven Winn. Tickets now available. commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-06…

Still tickets: Love Songs/Love Poems, April 10, 7:30pm, Back Room, Berkeley CA. I'll read from my new book of poems, The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens and Other Poems on Aging, and chanteuse Pamela Rose will swing ballads from the American Songbook. events.humanitix.com/love-songs-lov…..

Please join me, Zack Rogow, and chanteuse Pamela Rose for Love Songs/Love Poems on Friday, April 10 at 7:30 pm at The Back Room in Berkeley, California. events.humanitix.com/love-songs-lov…

Always a joy to visit the Maison Dora Maar in Ménerbes, France, a lively center for arts, where footsteps of Picasso & Dora feel present. Thanks so much to Gwen Strauss and the staff for hosting my reading from my book The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens and Other Poems in Aging.

I'm so pleased that The Times of London @thetimesproject published my article on dating as a senior, and how it led to my newest book of poetry, The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens and Other Poems on Aging. thetimes.com/life-style/sex…

Many thanks to @YetzirahPoets for naming me their poet of the week. yetzirahpoets.org

The Guardian today features my new book of poems, The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens and Other Poems on Aging. The book can be ordered on Bookshop.org or Amazon. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Thanks to Jumoké Fashola of @BBCRadioLondon for interviewing me about my new book of poems, The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens and Other Poems on Aging. You can hear the interview by clicking on the first link on this page. zackrogow.com/news.html

I've just posted two blogs in tribute to Dorothy Bryant (1930–2017), a wonderful novelist, playwright, and author of nonfiction. Dorothy was a brilliant writer and a kind mentor to me and many others. zackrogow.blogspot.com/2026/02/a-trib…

The latest post on my blog is “Writing for Someone Completely Different from You.” Writers should keep in mind readers who do not have the same set of cultural and historical references they do. That changes your way of writing, in my experience. zackrogow.blogspot.com/2026/02/writin…

Today is the publication date for my new book, The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens and Other Poems on Aging. Tess Gallagher has written of this collection, "I love this book for its reassuring frankness, subtlety, and genial intelligence.” bookshop.org/p/books/the-ka…

Tickets now on sale for Love Songs/Love Poems, Berkeley CA, April 10, featuring chanteuse @WildWomenOfSong, and me reading from my recently published collection, The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens and Other Poems on Aging. events.humanitix.com/love-songs-lov…

The latest post on my blog is about poet Ted Berrigan, who I studied with and interviewed in the mid-1970s. Ted was an amazing raconteur and had highly original ways of looking at poetry. zackrogow.blogspot.com/2025/12/rememb…

Many thanks to Giulio Mozzi for his guest blog, "Why You Have to Love Some Writers and Hate Others." Giulio boldly says that when a writer is developing their own style, "...you also become that through opposition. Through what you reject." zackrogow.blogspot.com/2025/12/giulio…

Thanks so much to writer and psychoanalyst Emmanuelle Malhappe for her insightful guest blog, "Masculine and Feminine in The Odyssey." Emmanuelle talks about how Penelope and Ulysses embody two essential principles that togethermake a complete human being. zackrogow.blogspot.com/2025/11/emmanu…

Please join us in San Francisco on Dec. 7, for a celebration of June Jordan and the new collection of writings on her work and life, This Unruly Witness. @ Howard Zinn Bookfair, City College of San Francisco, 1125 Valencia St. room 320, 2:30 to 4 pm. zinnbookfair.org/panel/this-unr…

Recently I heard a talk by Hungarian writer Dániel Levente Pál on "The Three Types of Poets." I found it so thought-provoking and insightful that I asked if he'd let me post it as a guest blog, which I've now done. zackrogow.blogspot.com/2025/11/daniel…