A poem by Yvette Neisser
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Two New Poems by Rodger Kamenetz
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“The Puppet Rabbi of Prague” and “The Pages and Pages.”
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Three Poems by Lesléa Newman
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“When My Father Wakes Up,” “Yes We Have No,” and “My Mother Is At The Bridge.”
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Foreword to “101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium”
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As a poet, creative writing instructor, and Chassidic Jew, I am fascinated by the surprising ways contemporary poetry and Judaism overlap. It was, therefore, a great honor and challenge to write the following essay, which serves as the “Foreword” to 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium (Ashland Poetry Press, 2021), an anthology of poems on the Jewish experience by a diverse group of today’s established and emerging poets.
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Jacob
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You emerge changed from the battle, but beware believing that changed means improved.
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Funicular
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Oh merciful God, please don’t let me die before I’ve used Gaudi’s model in a poem that can outwit art like he cheated gravity & math.
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Death and Amtrak
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On a night train to Albany.
The cars slid North on the tracks
And rain splattered grime
Around the sealed windows.
“In the West we are short on time”
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In this review, Anna Newman calls Brenda Hillman’s newest poetry collection “an ecopoetical elegy for Hillman’s loved ones, for nature, and for political activism.”
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The Voice We Need Now: Whitman at 200
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Herbert Levine remembers Walt Whitman on the 200th anniversary of his birth: his “democratic wisdom is as relevant today as when it was written.”
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GOD OPTIONAL
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“Blessed be the nameless, blessed the naming. Blessed the Unnamable un-naming itself.” A new poem from Rodger Kamenetz.
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SHLOSHIM (thirty days)
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“I had a memory once but it was replaced by crumbs of stumbling music the false notes I sang to you. That horizon has no sun.” A new poem from Rodger Kamenetz.