Kaminsky, Marc, 1943-....

Marc Kaminsky was born in New York City in 1943. He attended Columbia University, earning his B.A. in 1964 and his M.A. in 1967. He earned an M.S.W. from the Hunter College School of Social Work in 1978. Between 1972 and 1977, Kaminsky worked for the the Jewish Association for Services for the Aged (JASA), where he was director of the West Side Senior Center. At JASA, he organized and conducted the first writing and reminiscing groups for older adults, developing a model for what has become a standard in gerontological settings. From 1978 to 1981, Kaminsky worked at Teachers & Writers Collaborative, where he founded and directed the Artists & Elders Project. Later, he became founding co-director of the Institute on the Humanities, Arts and Aging at the Brookdale Center on Aging of Hunter College and, along with Deena Metzger, co-founding director of the Myerhoff Center, named after the late, renowned anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff. He is currently a psychotherapist in private practice. Kaminsky has published seven books of poems, including A Table with People, Daily Bread, and Shadow Traffic. His long narrative poem, The Road from Hiroshima, was produced as a play for National Public Radio and won the Art of Peace Award. He is the author and editor of six books on aging in the culture of Yiddishkeit, including What's Inside You It Shines Out of You and The Uses of Reminiscence. More recently, he edited Remembered Lives, a volume of Myerhoff's essays on again, and he co-edited Stories as Equipment for Living, a posthumous collection of her late talks and tales. Kaminsky's poems and essays have appeared in numerous literary magazines, clinical and scholarly journals, and poetry anthologies. In 2009, Kaminsky was inducted into the Hunter (College) Hall of Fame for contributions to the fields of gerontology and literature.

Marc Kaminsky was born in New York City in 1943. He attended Columbia University, earning his B.A. in 1964 and his M.A. in 1967. He earned an M.S.W. from the Hunter College School of Social Work in 1978. Between 1972 and 1977, Kaminsky worked for the the Jewish Association for Services for the Aged (JASA), where he was director of the West Side Senior Center. At JASA, he organized and conducted the first writing and reminiscing groups for older adults, developing a model for what has become a standard in gerontological settings. From 1978 to 1981, Kaminsky worked at Teachers & Writers Collaborative, where he founded and directed the Artists & Elders Project. Later, he became founding co-director of the Institute on the Humanities, Arts and Aging at the Brookdale Center on Aging of Hunter College and, along with Deena Metzger, co-founding director of the Myerhoff Center, named after the late, renowned anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff. He is currently a psychotherapist in private practice.

Kaminsky has published seven books of poems, including A Table with People, Daily Bread, and Shadow Traffic . His long narrative poem, The Road from Hiroshima, was produced as a play for National Public Radio and won the Art of Peace Award. He is the author and editor of six books on aging in the culture of Yiddishkeit, including What's Inside You It Shines Out of You and The Uses of Reminiscence . More recently, he edited Remembered Lives, a volume of Myerhoff's essays on again, and he co-edited Stories as Equipment for Living, a posthumous collection of her late talks and tales. Kaminsky's poems and essays have appeared in numerous literary magazines, clinical and scholarly journals, and poetry anthologies. In 2009, Kaminsky was inducted into the Hunter (College) Hall of Fame for contributions to the fields of gerontology and literature.