“Boys and girls, / I believe in mysteries, / what the Greeks called music.” A new poem from Stanley Moss.
Arts & Cultural Critique
THE DAY AFTER THE DAY OF ATONEMENT
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“No one could find the tiny hole in her belly where the invisible jets the visible. Would an earthquake reveal her living parts?” A new poem from Rodger Kamenetz.
Arts & Cultural Critique
THE PROGRESS: In a Sukkah in Paris
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“Bless the rooster who understands dawn. Who has good sense to read new light on its toe.” A new poem from Rodger Kamenetz.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Revelations
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“And the moment I was able to look them / in the eye, they opened theirs, // as surprised as I was to find themselves alive.” A new poem from Jon Swan.
Arts & Cultural Critique
The Machine
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“someone came back / from the edge of the world […] / chanting the word tolerance / over and over, as if / that would change anything.” A new poem from Steven Kleinman.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Reflections on a Line by Anna Akhmatova*
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“The sea that tumbles onto shore is not the sea / we waded in as kids. We’ve changed its nature.” A new poem from Jon Swan.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Cows
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“The problem was excusable, almost: / that they thought there should be a place / in the world that would welcome them. / But why?” A new poem from Steven Kleinman.
Arts & Cultural Critique
RING AROUND THE ROSEY
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“Swaddled in sweet fiction / they will rise from the ground again / laughing like the cheaters they are.” A new poem from Kim Roberts.
Arts & Cultural Critique
PROTECTION BY EINAR JONSSON
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“Your wings are institutions, and therefore / too slow. / They weigh you down.” A new poem from Stephanie Burt.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Gazing
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“so now we […] may nightly observe […] the deft undoing of what we once / had thought would long endure.” A new poem from Jon Swan.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Two Poems
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“And then there will be another election, / and then the takers of bribes will be shown the door, / or possibly fed to the dogs.” Two new poems from Stephanie Burt.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Chuppah
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“This is / why every day I thank God / I was born a woman.” A new poem from Julie R. Enszer.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Coming To Istanbul
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“The Ottoman historian pours you / tahn and wine into the sunset. // Follow the lights on the bridge / into the chandelier of the sky.” A new poem from Peter Balakian.
Spirituality
My Mother Died on Simchat Torah
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Philip Terman confronts the heartbreaking, cyclical nature of life in his poem “My Mother Died on Simchat Torah.”
Uncategorized
Psalm 11:16
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In Joy Ladin’s poem “Psalm 11:16,” creation becomes an act of connection and love.