Laura Hodes
Calling all Jewish poetry lovers — this one is for you!
Calling all Jewish poetry lovers — this one is for you!
There once was / a way to cross the river,/ an old Jewish bridge/ from the Tigris to the Euphrates / flowing ancient date honey.
A Yiddish-inflected expression of pride with rich wisdom and “humor to spare.”
A sharply composed collage-poem that provokes us to perceive connections, to recognize the reality of multiple convictions in our troubled time, and to ask ourselves: What now? What then?
Impossible requirements for assimilation then turn into rasping hate-speech that evolves into sneer, into threat.
The latest midrash with a woman-centered version of the story of “the binding of Isaac.”
In Honor of National Poetry Month, Lilith will be sharing original work by Jewish feminist poets throughout the first week in April. We begin in the Garden of Eden…
Los Angeles-based poet Rhiannon McGavin talks to Lilth about her sophomore collection of poetry, Grocery List Poems.