Brooklyn Rail Contributor

Rod Kessler

ROD KESSLER, after thirty-one years, retired from teaching creative writing at Salem State. Born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, he now lives in Salem, Massachusetts.



Time-Trails and Travelled Roads: GALE RENEE WALDEN with Rod Kessler

DEC 17-JAN 18 | Books

In her recently released Where the Time Goes, Illinois poet Gale Renee Walden moves the reader in various ways, including along the time-line.

HE WAS ONCE MY STUDENT
KEVIN  CAREY with Rod  Kessler

NOV 2016 | Books

If it hadn’t been official before, it’s official now: as soon as Garrison Keillor of NPR’s Writer’s Almanac recited “Reading to my kids” from the just-published collection, Jesus Was a Homeboy, we knew that its author Kevin Carey, my one-time graduate student, now friend and artistic colleague, had made a permanent spot for himself on the nation’s literary map.

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