Dina Elenbogen

photo by Laura Friedlander

Events

Selected Recent Events

May 2010 Reading my fiction from anthology Where We Find Ourselves, SUNY 2009 (sponsored by UniVerse of Poetry and WBEZ Radio)
with other local contributers
Katerinas, Chicago 8:00

January 9, 2010
Poetry Reading: Sponsored by Kfar and Zeek Magazine
with Kevin Coval and other local writers
Chopin Theater, Chicago 8:00

June 29, 2009: T'mol Shilmshon King Solomon St. Jerusalem 7:00
Reading from Apples of the Earth
with Karen Alklay Gut

June 7, 2009: Printer's Row Book Festival 3:00
Reading with other contributors from Where We Find Ourselves

May 6, 2009: Chicago Cultural Center 6:00
A Celebration of Israel through Poetry
Info. siegbogen@​aol.com


April 17, 2009: Flatfile Galleries
217 North Carpenter Chicago 7:00
The Marriage of Poetry Readings and Performances
Info. www.universeofpoetry.org

April 22, 2009: Barnes and Noble at De Paul Center
1 East Jackson Blvd. Chicago 6:00
Readings from Where We Find Ourselves: Jewish Women Around the World Write About Home


January 17, 2008: Nextbook Reading Series (with Ilana Blumberg and music by Stuart Rosenberg) Madron Gallery of American Art, 1000 West North Avenue, 3rd Floor, Chicago, Il., 7:00 p.m.

November 20, 2007: Free Verse Poetry Series Hosted by Richard Fameree, Flatfile Gallery, Chicago, Il., 7:30 p.m.

August 15, 2007: The Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago, Il., 7:00 p.m.

May 4, 2007: Beth Emet Congregation, Evanston, Il., 8:30 p.m.

October 28, 2006: University of Iowa Hillel Center with Tony Eprile, 7:00 p.m., sponsored by Iowa Writer's Workshop

June 25, 2006: Highland Park Public Library 3:00 PM (Part of Nextbook meet the scholar program)

June 11, 2006: Greater Chicago Jewish Folk Arts Festival (signing) 11:00-6:00

June 3, 2006: Printer’s Row Book Fair, Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Stage, Chicago, 12:30

May 18, 2006: Borders Books 1700 Maple Evanston 7:30 PM

April 4, 2006: Transitions Bookplace Chicago 7:30 PM (with Tod Thilleman)

January 19, 2006: The Bookstall at Chestnut Court 7:00 PM (with Julie Parson-Nesbitt)

November 18, 2005: Women and Children First Books (reading and reception) 4:00 PM

November 8, 2005: Bowery Poetry Club New York (reading and release party)

Selected Works

Fiction
Independence Park: A Fiction
Short Story from the Anthology Where We Find Ourslves: Jewsih Women around the World Write about Home
Poetry
Apples of the Earth
“...a marvelous first collection. In elegant luminous language Elenbogen evokes the places and people she loves and grieves over.”
--Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Essay
Exile: Losing the Motherland
(from Tikkun Magazine Jan./Feb. 2001)