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    • Tekiah (1994, 2002)
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  • On the web
  • Poetry Readings, Residencies, and Shabbatons with Richard Chess


Video of Richard Chess on Vimeo.

Klezmetrics on JBooks.com (June 2007)

Open-door policy* on Mountain Xpress (May 2007) *located at bottom of page

Seventy Faces on Poems.com (May 2007)

An impromptu Passover poem on QuickMuse.com (April 2007)

Quick, Do Your Verse! an article about Richard Chess' latest internet endeavour on TheJewishWeek.com (March 2007)

Variations on a Theme by Wiesel on Zeek.net (March 2007)

Richard Chess: featured artist of the month on ImageJournal.org (July 2006)

Let's Face It, Third Temple, Traveler's Prayer and Kaddish on NCarts.org (January 2006)

Original Light: Poetry from the Bible on Alsop Review online

The Poetry of Survival on JBooks.com

Kaddish on ImageJournal.org (Summer 2004)

Richard Chess presented the Board of Governors Teaching Excellence Award on 0 (August 2002)

Poem That Begins With a Prayer by the 14th-Century Hebrew Author and Translator Qalonymos ben Qalonymos on Slate.com (July 2001)

Tzimtzum: Contraction in Ploughshares Literary Journal (Spring 1994)


  • Dr. Richard Chess
  • Karpen Hall 219, CPO # 2175
  • One University Heights
  • Asheville, NC 28804

  • rchess@unca.edu
  • (828) 251-6576 [office]
  • (828) 251-6603 [fax]