Sarah M. Seltzer
Four Jewish feminist poets discuss the craft of writing trauma–personal, contemporary, and generational.
On Writing Trauma
Tag: jewish poetry
“The Words Come Through Me”: Alicia Ostriker on the Healing Power of Poetry
Alexa Hulse
“What poetry does is put us in touch with our need to mend the world’s brokenness.”
A Roundup of Jewish Poetry Collections by Jewish Women
Laura Hodes
Calling all Jewish poetry lovers — this one is for you!
Crossing the Narrow Bridge
Maya Bernstein and Jessica Jacobs
Poets gathered to figure out how to hear and be heard in fraught times.
Amazon Is Sold out of Sackcloth.
Rabbi Jen Gubitz
I am sitting shmira – / Guarding the memories of the dead / until they are returned / to their families embrace.
Poem: How to Pray While the World Burns
Hila Ratzabi
A poem from Hila Ratzabi: The earth will hold you better Than God can.
Poem: “From the River to the Sea”
Sarah Sassoon
There once was / a way to cross the river,/ an old Jewish bridge/ from the Tigris to the Euphrates / flowing ancient date honey.
Marilyn Singer on “Awe-Some Days”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Yona Zeldis McDonough talks to Marilyn Singer about “Awe-some Days,” a collection of poetry and prose about Jewish holidays for children.
A Poet Goes Toe-to-Toe with Death, Sex, Judaism and Family
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Yona Zeldis McDonough talks to Jennifer Anne Moses about her book “Domesticity.”
Rhiannon McGavin on Poems, Dreams, and Tkhines
Alexa Hulse
Los Angeles-based poet Rhiannon McGavin talks to Lilth about her sophomore collection of poetry, Grocery List Poems.