Neeli Cherkovski was born in Los Angeles and has Lived in San Francisco since 1974. He is the author of many books of poetry and prose and books translated into Turkish, German, Italian, and Spanish. He is recipient of a PEN Josephine Miles Award for excellence in literature and the Jack Mueller poetry prize for 2018. His latest books poetry are In the Odes and Elegy for My Beat Generation. Cherkovski’s papers are at the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley.
Cherkovski reads from Elegy for My Beat Generation and from a new book, Hyper.