Living with You

Barbara Blatner is a poet, playwright, composer and musician. She lives in northern Manhattan with her husband and two cats, and teaches in the English Department at Yeshiva University. LIVING WITH YOU (NYQ Books, 2011) is her second full-length collection of poems. THE STILL POSTIION, a verse memoir of my mother's death, was published by NYQ Books in 2010. She is also the author of the poetry chapbook, The Pope in Space (Intertext Press, 1984). Barbara's verse play No Star Shines Sharper (Baker's Plays, 1991) was produced for radio and aired repeatedly on National Public Radio stations. Her plays have been produced in New York, Boston and Cleveland; her full- length script, Years of Sky, about a biracial couple who witness JFK's assassination, will be produced in 2012 by Scripts Up! She has written musical scores for theatre, including the Boston Shakespeare Company and New Theatre, and songs for the Boston-based fusion group Urban Myth with whom she played keyboards for five years.