Poet and author Jessica Jacobs will share how drawing on the ancient Jewish practice of midrashic inquiry—as well as the Jesuit practice of Ignatian Contemplation—can help us delve into scripture and find the stories and knowledge waiting beyond the surface layer of the page.
Four Jewish feminist poets discuss the craft of writing trauma–personal, contemporary, and generational.
“What poetry does is put us in touch with our need to mend the world’s brokenness.”
A love story contains all kinds of other stories: a grief story, a sadness story, a hope story, a hope deserted story.
Hello, my name is Shame and I am your constituent. My voice is hoarse on your answering machine. Do you really decide who will live and who will die by tally?
We are strangers here together/ where we place these stories in the open/ mouths of paper bags.
Torah shouts: all women who practice witchcraft must be put to death! Talmud reports: rabbinic sages believed their wives all practiced witchcraft.
Calling all Jewish poetry lovers — this one is for you!
Exile can be a place for sustained nourishment: the same activism that led me out of Jewish community came to tether me back in.
A poem from Hila Ratzabi: The earth will hold you better Than God can.