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
Victoria Redel’s new poetry collection is a celebration of everything human
Sean Singer’s latest collection of prose poems offers a glimpse into the world of blue-collar gig work
‘He jokes that he will not die / he will grow smaller and smaller / until I can carry him around in a teacup’
Before dying in the trenches, the Bristol-born, Lithuanian Jewish painter Isaac Rosenberg became the greatest English war poet that nobody’s ever heard of
An appreciation of Laura Riding, the great Jewish modernist poet who abandoned her genius to grow oranges in Florida
The Holocaust poet refused easy meaning in his work and committed suicide at 49. Now Pierre Joris and Daniel Kaufman set his poetry to music that surprisingly doesn’t suck.
The poet, who died last month, understood that American tradition is broken—but knew it was possible to begin again
The Sephardic Cuban poet Achy Obejas offers a bold, humanizing reinterpretation of traditional prayers
Talking Duchamp and Wittgenstein with the acclaimed poetry critic
The acclaimed poet’s new book is her most exquisite and unnerving yet
A poetry correspondence between the acclaimed novelist Herbert Gold and his sons
I love Roger Deakin’s classic paean to open-water swimming, but I can’t get past his line about Jewish ladies in red jackets with big gold buttons
Lesléa Newman paints a poetic portrait of her father—the man he was, and the man he became
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