Mireille Gansel’s new collection of poetry teaches us how to make ourselves at home in a broken world
Pinny Bulman’s new book of poems about the lost Jewish world of Washington Heights
On the intifada generation that sacrificed its poets
A Hanukkah Poem
Poems of pain by a Ukrainian Jewish writer
The distinguished American poet feels rage
Ben Lerner’s ‘The Lights’ is a collection of auto-fictional poems from a master of self-validating ambiguity
Music made Cohen rich and famous, but it deprived us of the brilliance of his poetry
Sweet summer heat
‘the heat cleaves / the furnace bellows’
A poem for the 28th anniversary of the genocide
Drinking wine with Russophone New York’s funniest shtetl poet
Eugene Ostashevsky’s latest collection is a love letter to his wife, his children, and the beauty of language
A poem
Dan Alter’s debut collection explores Jewish melancholy and the joys of Neil Young
‘I face time with my mom each afternoon / The darkness here means darkness there, too soon’
A poem for Holocaust Remembrance Day