Rachel Edelman
Exile can be a place for sustained nourishment: the same activism that led me out of Jewish community came to tether me back in.
We Meet at the Well: Miriam, Hagar and Me
Tag: poetry
Poem: How to Pray While the World Burns
Hila Ratzabi
A poem from Hila Ratzabi: The earth will hold you better Than God can.
Diane Mehta’s Miniaturist Poetry
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Mehta’s poems are miniaturist examinations of art, aging, literature, grief, parenting, the sublime, labor, and faith.
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.”
Poetry: History
Sandra Reva Goldberg
A Yiddish-inflected expression of pride with rich wisdom and “humor to spare.”
Poetry: Eighteen Ways of Looking at Property
Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
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?
Poetry: Know Your Place
Baillie Aaron
Impossible requirements for assimilation then turn into rasping hate-speech that evolves into sneer, into threat.
Poetry: Sarah Asleep
Gail Newman
The latest midrash with a woman-centered version of the story of “the binding of Isaac.”
Poetry: Eden Is an Archetype
Diana M. Allen
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…
Fiction: “Worms”
Simona Zaretsky
Spider crawls across the rim of pot. I flick it into the rain pounding down. Search the flowerbeds for squirming bodies, run my fingers gently through wet earth waiting for their silky touch.