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Upcoming Events
Yetzirah Workshops
Fall 2024
- December 5-19: Mónica Gomery, “Poetry of the Cosmic All”
- December 25: Eve Grubin, “Finding Light in the Dark of Winter: A Generative Poetry Workshop”
Spring 2025
- January 26: Eve Grubin, “Poetry Inspired by Classic Jewish Texts”
- February 12-March 19: Hila Ratzabi, “Songs of the Grass; Exploring Jewish Ecopoetry”
- February 23: Joanna Chen, “Translating Worlds, Exploring Words: A Workshop on Literary Translation”
- February: Aviya Kushner, “Riffing Off the Bible’s Greatest Hits” (details TBA)
Jewish Poetry Conference
Featured Poet
- Of the Book Literary Journal, “In the Middle”, “People Speak Yiddish in Bars All Over Berlin”, “Elegy”
- Taos Journal of Poetry, “Half a Donkey”
- Deronda Review, “Ode for Walking Women”, “Woman Under the Bridge”
- Gone Lawn, “The Starling”
- Rogue Agent, “The Forceps of War”
- Cider Press Review, “A cat’s paw has its own geography”
- West Trestle Review, “The Bird Men”
- Ekphrastic Review, “I grow extra ovaries”
- Dodging the Rain, “Our Own Patois”
- The Shore, “She springs from fissures”
- Bending Genres, “A Different Wish”
- Ekphrastic Review, “Watermelon of Forgiveness” (Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2023)
- Sheila-Na-Gig, “Tearformation”, “They’ll never name a hurricane after me”
- Flapper Press, “Inside Bird”, “Flowers on a Train”, “Alexander Valley” (Best of the Net Nominee, and Interview)
Yetzirah Book Club
- I Am of the Tribe of Judah: Poems from Jewish Latin America
- Peter Cole, Draw Me After
- Jason Schneiderman, Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire
- Shirley Kaufman, Roots in the Air: New and Selected Poems