Poetry for Southern California

Gerard
(Gerry) Sarnat is the great-great-grandson of Jacob
Ben Isaac Gesundheit, the High Rabbi of Warsaw, and
shtetl lowlifes, Nahum Z. and Yente Liebe Sarnatzky.
He is a father of three, grandpa to two, and has
been married forty-plus years.
A virginal poet at the tender age of sixty-four, originally writing about caring for the homeless and happenings in the lands of Abraham and Burning Man, during 2008 his work was published in over sixty journals and anthologies and was commended or won poetry competitions and prizes inside and outside the US. In 2009 Gerry began editing literary journals. In 2010 he was invited to teach at the university level and began readings, radio interviews available as free iTunes podcasts, and workshops domestically and in Israel.
Gerry’s Harvard- and Stanford-educated, a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He has been a professor at Stanford Medical School, and CEO/chief medical officer for national healthcare companies. Gerry has set up and staffed clinics for the disenfranchised.
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