Writers Night Out – Featured Reader Howard Faerstein

Featured reader – Howie Faerstein

Howard Faerstein’s first book of poetry, Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn, was published in 2013 by Press 53. A second collection, Googootz, and Other Poems came out in September 2018. His work can be found in numerous journals including Great River Review, Nimrod, CutThroat, Off the Coast, Rattle, upstreet, Mudfish and on-line in Gris-Gris, Peacock Journal, and Connotation.

Considering himself an “adjunct emeritus,” he is presently volunteering as a citizenship mentor at the Center for New Americans and is Associate Poetry Editor of CutThroat, A Journal of theArts. After living in Brooklyn for fifty years, he now lives in Florence, Massachusetts.