Rachel Lee
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?
Poem: Calling Congress
Tag: poetry
Poem: L’dor v’dor
Jehanne Dubrow
We are strangers here together/ where we place these stories in the open/ mouths of paper bags.
Poem: Do Not Allow a Witch to Live
Karen Dresser
Torah shouts: all women who practice witchcraft must be put to death! Talmud reports: rabbinic sages believed their wives all practiced witchcraft.
A Roundup of Jewish Poetry Collections by Jewish Women
Laura Hodes
Calling all Jewish poetry lovers — this one is for you!
We Meet at the Well: Miriam, Hagar and Me
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.
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?