Zvi A. Sesling, Poet Laureate Emeritus of Brookline, MA (2017-2020) has published flash fiction and poetry in numerous magazines both in print and online in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, France, Cyprus, New Zealand, Australia, India, Canada and Israel. He was awarded First Prize in the Reuben Rose International Poetry Competition. He was selected to read his poetry at New England/Pen "Discovery" by the late Boston Poet Laureate Sam Cornish. His poetry was selected for the Spring Rain Poetry Festival on Cyprus and his Hay (na) ku poetry is part of a display at the San Francisco Library. In addition, he has a Hay (na) ku, two poems and four flash fiction stories in Stanford University's Life in Quarantine project. Sesling was twice a featured reader in the Jewish Poetry Festival in Brookline, MA and is a regular reviewer for the Boston Small Press and Poetry Scene. Sesling is Editor of 10By10 Flash Fiction Stories and Muddy River Poetry Review. He has been a featured reader in various venues in the Boston area, San Diego, the Massachusetts Poetry Festival and the Boston National Poetry Festival. He has also read on local radio and cable television programs. He is author of four books of poetry, War Zones, The Lynching of Leo Frank, Fire Tongue and King of the Jungle and and three chapbooks, Simple Game, Baseball Poetry; Love Poems from Hell and Across Stones of Bad Dreams. He is the author of the recently published flash fiction chapbook Wheels. Sesling taught at Suffolk University, Emerson College and Boston University. He lives in Brookline, MA with his wife Susan J. Dechter.
Read Zvi Sesling's musings in Secret Behind the Gate and you'll be
instantly transported into zany, oftentimes ironic, journeys
traversing the narrow alleyways, backroads, and main streets of
Zvi's vivid imagination. His delightful nuggets are easily
digestible but, oh so hard to put down!-Phil Temples, The Allston
Variant and Uncontacted Frontier
It takes an exceptionally rich imagination to conceive over two
hundred truly distinctive pieces of short fiction. While
microscopic in length, Zvi Sesling's tales are macroscopic in their
ability to entertain and provoke. You laugh, you cry, and you think
. . . really think--no small achievement in such attenuated works.
I had several favorites in Secret Behind the Gate, foremost among
them, "Nowhere Man," "The Bride Wears Black," and "What We Can Hope
For." Indeed, these made me chuckle, tear up, and ultimately ponder
the meaning of their message. They all had something of value to
convey--maybe none more so than the book's namesake. It's no secret
that Zvi is an original raconteur of the highest order, a
storyteller par excellence, possessing enormous wit and empathy.
--Michael C. Keith, author Insomnia 11 and Stories in the Key of
Me
When reading Zvi Sesling's Secret Behind the Gate, which I highly
recommend, don't just cram a bunch of its tasty morsels into your
mouth at once. They must be individually chewed, savored, and
digested to be completely appreciated. They range from short
fiction to flash fiction to micro fiction to something dangerously
close to poetry, from profoundly funny to ironic to wistful to
deeply sad, so you'll never know what's coming next. -Rob Dinsmoor,
author of Toxic Cookout
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