Yona Zeldis McDonough
Yona Zeldis McDonough talks to Jennifer Anne Moses about her book “Domesticity.”
A Poet Goes Toe-to-Toe with Death, Sex, Judaism and Family
Tag: poetry
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.
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.
The Pain of Singing Carlebach
Arielle Korman
Wrestling with the legacy of signing melodies by Shlomo Carlebach— prolific and influential song leader, and also a known abuser.
Facing History at the Angel Island Immigration Station
Bekkah Scharf
My great-grandfather was detained at Angel Island. Immigrants carved tens of thousands of poems into every square inch of the barrack walls, describing their anguish of captivity and longing for home.