Richard Chess was born in Los Angeles in 1953. He spent most of his childhood and youth in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He is the author of three books of poetry, Third Temple (2007), Chair in the Desert (2000), and Tekiah (1994). His poems have appeared in many journals as well as several anthologies, including Best American Spiritual Writing 2005 and Telling and Remembering: A Century of American-Jewish Poetry. Wikipedia
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Richard Chess is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He is also the author of Third Temple, Tekiah and Chair in the Desert. Richard, a Jewish poet, is also the poetry editor of the Jewish magazine Zeek. www.richardchess.com
