“This book explores the joys of newfound love in old age, the miraculous blossoming that can occur when two lovers find each other after a lifetime of searching…The crystalline poems in The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens are shot through with a gentle melancholy leavened by wit and eros.”

— Alison Luterman, Catamaran Poetry Prize Winner

“I love this book for its reassuring frankness, subtlety, and genial intelligence.… a mind so inventive, so alive to possibility, always at the heart of loving and delight… This book isn’t just for seniors, it’s for anyone who wants to feel what it is to be fully alive.”

— Tess Gallagher, Author of Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems

“These poems come to grips with the melancholy of aging set against the backdrop of love and sex, community and loneliness, laughter and tears.”

— Joseph Millar, Guggenheim and NEA Fellowship Recipient

What does love look like in life’s later chapters? In this tender, mischievous new collection of poetry, Zack Rogow answers with the hard-won wisdom of a man newly single in his senior years.

“After being with the same person for over three decades, I found my life upside down, dating again after the age of 65,” says Rogow, a teacher, playwright, poet, and translator. “I went on over 75 first dates and tried every-which-way to meet someone that I could feel a loving connection with. Luckily, I did, but it was not easy.” Rogow adds: “I didn’t succeed in finding a long-term partner by dating online. I finally met my current partner through our mutual interest in French literature. In an interview, he will share the following:

How he survived 75 first-time dates until he found a second chance at deep intimacy

The challenges and rewards of aging

What he discovered on the singles scene after not dating for 35 years

Why the three-time Pushcart Prize for Poetry nominee writes about love

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Zack Rogow is the author, editor or translator of more than 20 books and plays. Nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize for Poetry, his previous nine collections of poetry include Irreverent Litanies, Talking with the Radio: poems inspired by jazz and popular music, and The Number Before Infinity. His memoir, Hugging My Father’s Ghost, was released in 2024. Zack’s co-authored play, Colette Uncensored, had its first staged reading at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and later ran in London, Indonesia, Catalonia, San Francisco, and Portland. His blog, Advice for Writers, features more than 300 posts. He has received the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize, the Northern California Book Reviewers Award in Translation, and the Celestine Award for Poetry. He also edited the anthology The Face of Poetry (University of California Press).

Additional career highlights include:

Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Award for translation of Horace by George Sand

Lili Fabilli-Eric Hoffer Essay Prize, UC Berkeley

Co-authored play Colette Uncensored, nominated for outstanding solo show by Theatre Bay Area, and co-authored play Groucho for President selected for JETFest, festival of new plays; staged reading

Taught at University of Anchorage and California College of the Arts

Contributing editor for Catamaran Literary Reader

Served as managing director of The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University

Wrote lyrics for several jazz songs, one of which was recorded by the chanteuse Carrie Wicks. Listen here: https://originarts.com/oa2/recordings/recording.php?TitleID=22175

His dad, Lee Rogow, was a widely published writer and man-about-town in Manhattan in the 1950s, before dying tragically in an airplane crash when he was three years old. Zack writes about this in his memoir, Hugging My Father’s Ghost.

Rogow earned his Master of Arts in English from City College and BA in English from Yale University, graduating Cum Laude. He resides in Northern California. For more information, visit www.zackrogow.com.

Social Media:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zackrogow

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Bluesky: Zackrogow.bsky.social

His blog is here: https://zackrogow.blogspot.com/

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Jonathan Gross comes to New York and has an experience of a lifetime, he shares it, including performing in Times Square for the International Day of Peace…..

On September 20, I travelled to New York to sing a song I wrote when I was 14. To be in the neon world of Times Square, with its flickering lights, and to project a stone slab from Byzantium,  was, perhaps, too much even for my hubris.

So grateful was I (vanitatus vanitatum) that I repaid Paul Sladkus’ kindness by smashing up my Hertz-rent-a-car, leased only moments before.  I’m an excitable person and the opportunity to play in Times Square for “Pause the World for Peace” was apparently too much for me.  On 42^nd and 5^th I hit a truck, rear-ending the vehicle and potentially compromising the man’s neat aluminium ladder. (damages owed to Hertz?: $3000) I was jutting my elbow into Vince’s face to show him the New York Public library. “Look! Look!” I cried. “ Boom!!” Vince didn’t say a word, accustomed to my stupidities,  but the truck driver jumped out of his car, ready to assault me. I smiled and apologized and raised my shoulders like a chimpanzee. To my left, Iranian protesters were commemorating a holiday, on this U.N. day of peace, showing grisly pictures of people who had been tortured.  Near a newsstand a woman, with a preternatural smile, was selling beads on  the street. Did I want one? No. I did not. I had already paid 5.00$ for a similar version.   My drummer and I were headed to Elmont, New York, to visit my parents’ ancestors. This was at his insistence, I must stress, because I am a coward about graveyards.  To show him around the town, I pulled up to Saddle Rock elementary school and  almost got arrested on Rosh Hashanah for taking photographs. Three police cars detained us for an hour; they thought I had drugged Vince, he was so bored with the Rockford files meets Kojack routine they were running on us). It turns out there was a school shooting (averted) in Benjamin Cardozo, where my mother taught English for more than a decade. A 16 year old had a fully loaded glock in his locker and a facebook post that was not auspicious. We had just returned from the graves of my ancestors, shortly after  my Byzantine moment in Times Square (singing an ephemeral song in front of a decidedly non-ephemeral slab of stone).  Distracted, hungry, vaguely depressed, I wondered about the divine implications of my percussionist uttering a Buddhist prayer at my grandmother’s grave. In Great neck, later that day, I found  that McMansions sprouting like mushrooms had replaced the 1970s houses I remembered, shrunken prune-like counterparts to these swollen houses, obese with pride; a cantor greeted me at the door of my former residence, the only street, perhaps, in the United States that boasts three temples. In my house there are many mansions.

Our house was a colonial affair, decolonized through lack of resources: my parents both taught English. We were a family of  secular humanists (read “atheists and non-believers”), and would hide  on Yom Kippur when the Iranian Jews kicked out of Tehran in 1978 made their way to shul to pray. Our house was up for sale, the Cantor told me. His house, he might have said, the one the temple bought for him. He was moving to Strathmore, a more lucrative village just down the road.  My sister rued the K-Mart furniture and  exercise bike. The children were confined to bunk beds, while the parents ran the roost. A true Long Island story.

Shortly before, in Times Square, as part of the Pause for Peace program, we performed “Byzantine”.  Lofty as ever in our ruminations, we were struck by the lack of bathrooms in this most civilized of cities. It was a problem then (1977, when I grew up) and it’s a problem now (2025). Several performers discreetly made their way to the Disney store a few blocks away, exchanging masonic handshakes, wandering through the dresses devoted to Ariel on the second floor,  to find their bladders miraculously transformed with the help of modern plumbing. When my percussionist had first mentioned the lack of facilities, in a true Don Quixote gesture, I winced with righteous indignation at Sancho’s impudence. How dare you expect that there would be a place to go to the bathroom? In this, the most civilized city in the world. 42^nd street.  Surely they had more important things to do than provide blue plastic port a potties!! What kind of philistine would expect a bathroom in Times Square, the land of prostitution now transformed into Disneyland. We arrived ready to play for Paul: a gorilla was dancing to the left us, promoting another store closure no doubt. Japanese hip hop dancers gyrated to no audience in particular: well dressed and youthful, stars of their own show.

We were a long way from Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium”.   Or were we? Life passes by, like a Fellini film, and what remains? A stone from the Byzantium period, projected in pixels on a big white screen, while a 62 year old, middle aged man (that would be me) bleats out a song he wrote when he was 14. Luckily, it only had 3 chords. The poem, on which I based the song, is hard to understand. Is Yeats  talking about visiting Istanbul? Ravenna? Apparently, Yeats visited Ravenna in 1907 and was inspired by the mosaics, to write his poem twenty years later. He didn’t visit Ravenna again (not to mention Istanbul) because he was afraid the bad air would kill him.

I knew nothing about Byzantium when I wrote the song, staring at a pine tree, a pint-sized depressive.  I still don’t. AI tells us:

Byzantium is the original Greek colony  that was founded in the 7^th century. It later became the  capital of the Eastern Roman Empire founded by Constantine; After the Ottoman Empire conquered the city in 1453, it was eventually renamed Istanbul.  Ravenna was the Western Roman empire. Ravenna was the city Yeats visited in 1907 which inspired his poem.

I lived in NYC from 1985 to 1992; like most spoiled brats ( I. borrow the term from my mother), I did so on my parents’ largesse. When I would say something particularly stupid (e.g. I didn’t know there were two twin towers), my music partner would say: “How many years college?” Though I’ve taught in a college for 33 years, I remain as ignorant as the day I was born.  Though I could do a learned  sophistical dance in a college classroom, cobbling together the work of others, I ‘m not sure I can explain what Byzantium or Byzantine means, nor the meaning of Yeats’ poem (and my own song). I remain as ignorant of Yeats and my own song as I was the day I wrote it. Such is inspiration. “If the fool persists in his folly, he will become wise.” If that phrase has a good ring to it, that is because it is not mine but William Blake’s.

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www.animaltalksinc.com For anyone who has ever dealt with the loss of a pet, the grief can be overwhelming. The animal-human bond is immense during their lifetime but for many, trying to find resources for relief after the fact can be daunting.

According to data from the World Animal Foundation, 70% of households in the U.S. (90.5 million) owned a pet in 2022, as compared to 56% in 1988. These pet owners might share 15 to 20 years with their animal – be it a dog, cat, bird, rabbit or otherwise – and may even be around them 24 hours a day.

The absence caused by their death is what led Reverend Kaleel Sakakeeny, an animal chaplain, to create the nonprofit organization Animal Talks, which offers grief counseling to those in mourning.

With more humans than ever owning a pet, a story on how to cope with loss of one may be of interest to your audience. Reverend Sakakeeny can discuss more including:

· The different stages of grieving that pet owners may experience
· How an animal’s death can compare to that of a human’s in our lives
· What can happen if we do not grieve the death of a pet properly
· How to decide if one-on-one grief counseling is right for you

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Osteoporosis is a common disease among postmenopausal women and those who have it may suffer a fracture in their lifetime.4 Yet, the majority of those with osteoporosis do not know they have it. Often referred to as a “silent disease,” there are typically no symptoms of osteoporosis until a fracture occurs.5

Additionally, many postmenopausal women who have been diagnosed with osteoporosis do not fully understand the risks associated with it. A fracture is associated with serious consequences and can be a life altering event – and postmenopausal osteoporosis will get progressively worse if not treated.2,6 Meanwhile, research shows that many women decline treatment that can help reduce the risk of fracture.7

Osteoporosis is a chronic disease affecting 10 million U.S. adults.3,8 It occurs when an individual’s bone mineral density decreases, leading to a reduction in bone strength which can increase the risk of fractures, or broken bones.5 This is especially common in women because hormone changes associated with menopause can lead to a rapid reduction in bone density – putting them at risk for fracture.4

Kristi Tough DeSapri, M.D.— owner of Bone & Body Women’s Health, a midlife women’s health medical practice — will discuss the need for women to understand their risk factors for osteoporosis and find strategies to maintain bone strength and reduce the risk for falls and fractures.

Dr. Tough DeSapri will discuss the risk factors for osteoporosis as well as explain why, after menopause, women should take an osteoporosis diagnosis seriously – and how they can be proactive in reducing their risk of fractures.

Courtesy: Amgen

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Listen to “Lucia Kaiser’s “Lifetime Achievement Award” for “Contribution to Film, TV & Humanitarian”” on Spreaker.

Listen to “Celebrating Lucia’s “Lifetime Achievement Award,” for “Contribution to Film, TV & Humanitarian”” on Spreaker.

April 7, 2021

Dear Lucia Kaiser,
We are in consensus we would like to honour you with the “Lifetime Achievement Award,” for “Contribution to Film, TV & Humanitarian.” This is the highest honour from our organization and was approved by HRH Princess Angelique Ademiposi Monet and Honorary Board Members.
We are planning this years awards during Festival de Cannes on July 13, 2021 at Eden Hotel & Spa in Cannes, France and understand you will be with us to accept your award with a video acceptance speech along with a detailed interview on Saturday July 10th 2021 @ 2 PM to celebrate your career.
In accepting your award we request from you the following; Permission to use your name, photograph/image, promoting New Generation In Action’s AFI World Peace Initiative, HRH Princess Angelique Monet Ademiposi awards (global program). Please send your photograph and biography upon acceptance along with the recent film marketing materials (poster, trailer)
Proper verbiage for press of award:
• Lifetime Achievement award for “Contribution to Film, TV & Humanitarian & Fine Arts” by A.F.I. World Peace Initiative the main division of New Generation In Action which holds Special Consultative Status to the United Nations through United Nations Economic and Social Council
• Honours will be presented at the World Peace & Tolerance Gala on July 13, 2021.
Below is a list of “Those who believe in New Generation In Action’s (NGIA) AFI World Peace Initiative and have received our highest honours
Dr. Ephraim Isaac: Director of the Institute of Semitic Studies (Princeton, NJ);
Chair of the Board of the Ethiopian Peace and Development Center; Founder and first Professor of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. In recognition of his merits, the “Ephraim Isaac Prize for Excellence in African languages.” Decorated/Knighted this year by His Majesty The King of Sweden with the Order of the Polar Star: First Class, for “Lifetime service to Peace& Justice.”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_Isaac
Dr. Raghunath Manet of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters). Humanitarian, Dancer, Choreographer and Musician
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raghunath_Manet
Professor Karl Bardosh: Professor at New York University. Award-winning director, producer, writer, feature editor, and producer of short television series and documentaries. He is a pioneer of the cell phone cinema.
Mastro Artist Gabriel Meiring Master pianist and fine artist from South Africa residing in Belgium
The late Kendal Shaw Master artist USA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendall_Shaw
Dougie Doug Performance and arts merit award
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_E._Doug
Ernanie Silva Master artist Brazil
Leonard Retel Helmrich: Famous for perfecting the “Single Shot Cinema” filming style and his related technical camera innovations.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Retel_Helmrich
Nasser Aldaheri: Top writer from United Arab Emirates
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasser_al-Dhaheri
Partnership with United Nations Women’s Guild
Madame Isabelle Kocher: French business woman & Chief Executive Officer of ENGIE
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_Kocher
Lawrence David Foldes
Critically Acclaimed Filmmaker, Executive Committee to Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences, Student Oscar Committee Chairman
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_D._Foldes
Her Royal Highness Princess Moradeun Adedoyin-Solarin
Pioneer of Nollywood, TV Show Hostess and Producer, Actress, Humanitarian, Founder of League of Pan African Royals
Mohy Quandor
Critically Acclaimed Filmmaker, Author and Composer
Sandeep Marwah
Media Icon, Marwah Studios, Noida Film City, Asian Academy of Film and Television
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandeep_Marwah
Gulrukh Khan
Award winning Filmmaker, Humanitarian, Holistic Specialist
Peter Ferris
Filmmaker, Co-Founder Ring of Peace recognized by HM Offices (UK)
Queen Mother Delois Blakey (Civil Rights Leader, UN Goodwill Ambassador)
Bob Zellner (Prominent Civil Rights Leader)
Hon. Theo Walker Mitchell (Prominent Civil Rights Leader, 1st African American in US history to receive nomination from a major party (Democratic) in the State of South Carolina, 2nd African American in USA history to receive nomination from a major party (Democratic), for Governor (1990), Retired Attorney, Former Member of General Assembly both House of Representatives and Senate (1975-1995).
ABOUT NEW GENERATION IN ACTION’S AFI WORLD PEACE INITIATIVE
The unique initiative of Artisan Festival International World Peace Initiative falls under the umbrella of “New Generation In Action,” with Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and is a 501(c)(3) as allowable by United States Law. We also have a not for profit in the United Kingdom as a cultural arts organization.
The award winning organization Artisan Festival International World Peace Initiative is founded by award winning and multi-media talent Angelique Monét and is comprised of mini-festivals, innovative events, seminars and workshops around the globe representative of the Arts (Film, Fine Art, Fashion, Music, Theatre & Performance) brought together under one umbrella in an effort to promote peace and cultural diversity through the arts. The organization also participates and hosts side events during United Nations Conferences, distributes film, literature, and media content, while also aiding artist in the distribution and exposure of their works (both internationally and domestic). This platform is designed to educate, enlighten, and enrich individuals to aide in cultural diversity and world peace.
Humanitarian Films also are screened, promoted, and honored during major film conferences and festivals such as Festival de Cannes, in addition to partnerships with other top tier organizations. The group also highlights fashion designers, fine artist, performers, women, and youth.
WORLD PEACE AND TOLERANCE INSTITUTION
The institution arm is the World Peace and Tolerance Institution.
Target Groups Served: Native Americans, 1st Nations, Indigenous People’s, African descent (from Transatlantic slave trade), Latin America, Africa, Aboriginal from Oceania region, Asia, Nomads, Middle East/ Arab territories
Goals: Youth artistic development globally, women’s empowerment, create solutions for economic sustainability through the arts, change the stigmatism associated with Indigenous tribes/African, and Middle Eastern cultures. This has been done through the use of media, film, marketing, and innovative events. The events are highlighted to educate, empower, bring various social, class and religious beliefs together in unity with an understanding of “world peace,” and tolerance.
Seeing the need for global events, there is also a need for training, and education facilities world- wide. Therefore, building after school arts programs in inner cities (USA), and globally will create solutions for the United Nations resolution “Leave No One Behind 2030.” Due to COVID-19 the organization is structuring e-learning platforms.
Additional initiatives include “Make in India,” preservation of Indigenous artisans, (Youth STEM initiatives Science, Technology, Education, Mathematics), space education programs and Artificial Intelligence youth programs.
OTHER FILM AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Screened over 100 Films from around the globe and garnished 30% international distribution.
Awarded A List and Esteemed Celebrities such as Ron Perlman (Best Narrator, Forget Us Not) Danny Glover (Best Actor, From Above), Eric Roberts (Best Supporting Actor, Road to the Open), Dougie Doug (Best Historical Narration), the late Peter O’Toole (Legacy Award), Jeff Bridges (Best Narration, Living In The Future’s Past), Graham Greene (Best Supporting Actor, From Above) other Hollywood celebrities who we have supported Isaiah Washington, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Eriq Ebounay
Break Out Actor Awards for Adriana Mather (now best-selling NY York Times author of “How to Hang A Witch” and Michael Wade (From Above)
S.E.L.F. Award (Self Esteem Lives Forever), for artists who have achieved beyond expectation through.

#lucia #kaiser #consensus #honour #lifetime #achievement #award #contribution #film #tv #humanitarian #hrh #princess #angelique #ademiposi #monet #honorary #board #member #festival #cannes #july #13 #2021

Edited by Zakhro Ibragimova

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HIV has been thrust into the spotlight recently, with innovative new therapies becoming available and the President pledging to end transmissions of the virus in the U.S. by 2030.

In just three decades, HIV has gone from an untreatable virus to one that is manageable with the right treatment regimen. Clinicians and people living with HIV can now focus on addressing the quality of life challenges that remain, namely those associated with stigma and the overall impact of lifelong therapy.

Some HIV advances in the past few years include:
• Increased awareness and new information related to transmission – when the virus is undetectable it is untransmittable
• Understanding the challenges facing people living with HIV while taking HIV medications over a lifetime
• New HIV treatment focused on decreasing exposure to the number of antiretroviral medications

Dr. Debbie Hagins, Medical Director of Coastal CARE Clinics in Savannah, Georgia, who is also an Infectious Disease specialist and HIV clinical investigator, research and advances in HIV.

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WE2019 is a series of celebratory concerts paying homage to the youth of 1969 and their organic concerts that were established with “Peace and Love” all around the globe.

Get ready for a series of outdoor music festivals of a lifetime! From Palm Bay, Florida to West Jefferson, North Carolina…The WE2019 Festivals are only weeks away and this 50th Anniversary of 1969 Concerts will be like no other.

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