Draft:Yael Hacohen

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  • Comment: Also take out the peacock language. Quoting from her poems is not necessary either. GraziePrego (talk) 01:14, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Yael Shoshana Hacohen (also known as Yael S. Hacohen, Hebrew: יעל שושנה הכהן, born Yael Shoshana Geva; May 19, 1986) is an Israeli poet, author, and translator.

Early life[edit]

Hacohen was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. Hacohen’s maternal grandmother is a fourth-generation descendent of Yoel Moshe Salomon, founder of the city Petah Tikva in Ottoman Palestine, and publisher of the Ha-Levanon, the first Hebrew language newspaper printed in Palestine.

Education[edit]

Hacohen attended Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, the country’s first Hebrew high school, where she studied in the Open University classroom, taking courses in psychology. In 2012, She received an LL.B in Law from Tel Aviv University, and an additional B.A degree in Literature. In 2016, she graduated from New York University, GSAS, with an MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry. At NYU she was an ‎NYU Veterans Workshop Fellow, International Editor at Washington Square Literary ‎Review, and Editor-in-Chief at Nine Lines Literary Review.[1]

Hacohen is currently studying for a PhD in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley.[2]

Career[edit]

Hacohen’s work has been featured in The Poetry Review,[3] Ploughshares,[4] The Missouri Review,[5] Bellevue Literary Review,[6] LIT,[7] Prairie Schooner, New York Quarterly Magazine,[8] and Consequence Magazine.[9]

‎Hacohen's chapbook Between Sanctity and Sand was published with Finishing Line Press in 2021. The chapbook received praise from Yusef Komunyakaa, Edward Hirsch, Deborah Landau, and Craig Morgan Teicher[10]

Books[edit]

Between Sanctity and Sand, (Finishing Line Press, 2021)[11]

Translation of Edward Hirsch’s Gabriel A Poem into Hebrew (Keshev LaShira, Forthcoming)

The Dove that Didn't Return (Holy Cow! Press, Forthcoming)

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Yael Hacohen | Ploughshares". www.pshares.org. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
  2. ^ "Yael Hacohen - Rhetoric Department". rhetoric.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
  3. ^ "Volume 107, No 1, Spring 2017 – The Poetry Society". poetrysociety.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
  4. ^ "Rules of Engagement: A Look2 Essay on Denise Levertov's War Poetry | Ploughshares". www.pshares.org. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
  5. ^ ""Genesis" by Yael Hacohen | The Missouri Review". Retrieved 2023-06-26.
  6. ^ Samia (2020-06-29). "Issue 29 – Bellevue Literary Review". Retrieved 2023-06-26.
  7. ^ "Tefillah Ne'ilah by Yael Hacohen". LIT. 2023-05-17. Archived from the original on 2023-06-26. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
  8. ^ "PILLAR OF CLOUD – New York Quarterly". Retrieved 2023-06-26.
  9. ^ "Consequence Magazine : A Literary Magazine Addressing the Culture of War: Volume 8 - Kovach, George (ed)". www.echenberg.org. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
  10. ^ "Between Sanctity and Sand by Yael S. Hacohen – Finishing Line Press". Retrieved 2023-06-26.
  11. ^ "Between Sanctity and Sand by Yael S. Hacohen – Finishing Line Press". Retrieved 2023-06-26.

External links[edit]

Yael Hacohen website