Jake Marmer

Jake Marmer is a poet, performer, and educator. He is the author of three poetry collections: Cosmic Diaspora (Station Hill Press, 2020), as well as The Neighbor Out of Sound (2018) and Jazz Talmud (2012), both from The Sheep Meadow Press. He also released two klez-jazz-poetry records: Purple Tentacles of Thought and Desire (2020, with Cosmic Diaspora Trio), and Hermeneutic Stomp (Blue Fringe Music, 2013). Jake is the poetry critic for Tablet Magazine. Born in the provincial steppes of Ukraine, in a city that was renamed four times in the past 100 years, Marmer lives in the Los Angeles.

Articles

  • On Skaz

    On Skaz

    Jake Marmer tells you all about skaz, in Ukraine and beyond, if you’ll listen.

    • On Skaz

      On Skaz

      Jake Marmer tells you all about skaz, in Ukraine and beyond, if you’ll listen.