Charles Fishman Reads His Poems

Charles Fishman, Distinguished Speakers Program, read his Holocaust poetry for the entire 10th grade at Cold Spring Harbor High School on January 20.

Dr. Fishman also gave the first reading in the new visiting writers series at Pima College in Tucson, February 21, 2005.

Dr. Fishman, who published two new books in 2004, Country of Memory (Uccelli Press, 2004) and 5,000 Bells (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2004), was the featured reader at Wayne State University in October, and at Wesleyan University and Suffolk Community College in November.

On March 9, Dr. Fishman was asked to read the opening of Keats’s Endymion to set the tone for the dedication ceremony for a major new Holocaust Resource Center on Long Island, the Suffolk Center on the Holocaust, Diversity and Human Understanding at the Selden campus of Suffolk County Community College. Other speakers included the SCCC President Pippins, the executive director of the Center, two Holocaust survivors, & other VIPs. Following the ceremony, the executive director asked Dr. Fishman to do a reading of his Holocaust poems on March 21. On March 21, Charles read his Holocaust poems for 350 Deer Park and Commack High School students at the Brentwood campus of SCCC which was part of an entire morning's program for the high school students.