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Jewish Poetry Conference

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2023 inaugural Jewish Poetry Conference

Our 2023 generative workshop faculty were Rodger Kamenetz, Ilya Kaminsky, and Jacqueline Osherow, with Keynote Speaker Alicia Ostriker.

Yetzirah Workshops

Fall 2023

  • Joy Ladin, “Telling the Soul’s Stories: Spiritual Anecdote and Autobiography”
  • Joy Ladin, “Writing God”

Spring 2024

  • Alicia Ostriker, “White Fire: the Art & Play of Midrash”
  • Ilya Kaminsky, “Poetic Lineages”

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Yetzirah Book Club

’23-’24 Selections

  • Bert Meyers: On the Life and Work of an American Master
  • Victoria Redel, Paradise
  •  In the Hour of War: Poems from Ukraine
  • Linda Zisquit, Havoc: New & Selected Poems