Jason Schneiderman

Biography

Jason Schneiderman is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Hold Me Tight (Red Hen, 2020); he edited the anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford, 2016). He is an associate professor at CUNY’s Borough of Manhattan Community College and teaches in the graduate program for writers at Warren Wilson College.

See Work

POETRY / Fall 2021

The Parable of the Dictator

By Jason Schneiderman

After the death of the dictator, his son wanted him embalmed. His son wanted him on perpetual display in a glass box.

POETRY / Fall 2021

Dramaturgy

By Jason Schneiderman

I’m writing a play about a Kommandant at Auschwitz / who recognizes one of the Jewish prisoners/ as a famous poet

POETRY / Spring 2008

Children’s Crusade

By Jason Schneiderman

When we reached Genoa, and the sea did not
open, and we were offered homes or exile,
there was little choice.