Gunilla Theander Kester, Ph.D
FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR, POET, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR, CLASSICAL GUITARIST
Gunilla Theander Kester is the author and co-author of six books, including a scholarly study, two poetry chapbooks, one full length poetry collection, and two collections dedicated to the victims of Flight 3407.
Current projects include a new collection of poetry and a memoir entitled “Streetness Speaks.”
April 4, 2024
GOOD NEWS TO SHARE
The Buffalo Corner Reading Series, hosted by Gunilla Kester, takes place Thursday, April 18, 7-8:30 p.m., in person at Congregation Shir Shalom or via Zoom. This month we feature Open Community Poetry Reading, in honor of National Poetry Month. Please join and share your work!
Twelve Mile Review has accepted three of my poems for their summer publication including: “Nightfall”, “If My Accent Were a Scale”, and “My Sister’s Yahrzeit.”
My poem “Mirror, Mirror” is included in the Saranac Review, Issue 18.
My poem “After the Storm” is included in the Potomac Review, Issue 74.
My poem “Better Not” will be published in Trampoline Poetry.
My poem “Leaving the Room We Shared” will be published in the Whale Road Review, Fall 2024.
My poem “How I Wish to Be A Book in Your Hands” will be published in Call Me [Brackets], University of Alabama Creative Writing, May 2024.
My poem “Guitar Shops, Four Continents” was accepted by West Trestle Review and will appear in the May/June 2024 issue.
I was the featured reader at the Sparks in the Dark Online Poetry Series, Wednesday, December 20, 12:30 p.m. Listen in here.
Free and open to all.
Virtual via Zoom, Boxcast, Facebook and YouTube.
Like all art, poetry bridges communities
and fosters tolerance.
BCRS provides a forum for cultural differences and understanding while helping writers find inspiration and improve their craft.
Visit www.shirshalombuffalo.org
for additional links.
Buffalo Corner Reading Series
Current & Upcoming
Recently published or forthcoming in the following journals: After Happy Hour, Atlanta Review, ballast journal, Book of Matches, Call Me [Brackets] University of Alabama Creative Writing, Cider Press Review, Concho River Review, Doubly Mad Journal, Great Lakes Review, I-70 Review, Naugatuck River Review, New Millennium Writings, Nixes Mate Review, Oberon Poetry, Ocean State Review, On the Seawall, Pangyrus, Paterson Literary Review, Pendemics Journal, Pine Hills Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Plainsongs, Potomac Review, Redactions, Saranac Review, San Pedro River Review, Silk Road Review, Silkworm, Slant, Slipstream, South Florida Poetry Journal, Stone Poetry Quarterly, SWWIM, The American Journal of Poetry, The Citron Review, The MacGuffin, The Worchester Review, Tikkun, Trampoline, West Trestle Review and Whale Road Review.
Nominated two times for the Pushcart Prize and once for Best of the Net.
Gunilla Kester and Mir Ali perform Yad Kiya Dil Ne
