SAMUEL MENASHE
Samuel Menashe was born in New York City in 1925. In 1950, he was awarded a doctorate d'universite from the Sorbonne. His first book, The Many Named Beloved, was published in London in 1961. In 1996, his poems were featured in Penguin Modern Poets, Vol. 7. The Niche Narrows, new and selected poems, was published by Talisman House in 2000. His poems have also appeared in The New Yorker, Partisan Review, The (London) Sunday Times, and TLS; and among his readings have been those at The Library of Congress and The Harvard Club.