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Asynchronous Workshop: “Jewish Love Poems: A Generative Workshop” with Eve Grubin

In this generative poetry workshop, we will write and read poems about one of the most difficult subjects for writers: romantic love. In this workshop, taking place soon after Tu B’Av, the Jewish holiday of romantic love, we will explore questions such as: Do examples of or discussions about romantic love appear in classic Jewish texts? If so, how does traditional Judaism understand this kind of love? What can we learn from these examples? We will write poems in response to these texts and our conversations, and we will be inspired by reading great Jewish love poems. 

Workshop Costs

Purchase the asynchronous workshop here to receive:

  • One recorded class
  • Link to poems discussed in class

$36—standard registration

$30—discounted registration for Yetzirah Members (you can become a member here)

*As we want our offerings to be accessible to all, there is a pay-what-you-can option if this pricing is a hardship. Please contact Kyra Lisse at klisse@yetzirahpoets.org for a sliding scale option.

 

About Eve

Eve Grubin is the author of the book of poems Boat of Letters (Four Way Books). She is also the author of Morning Prayer (Sheep Meadow Press), The House of Our First Loving (Rack Press) and Grief Dialogue (Rack Press). 

Eve holds a PhD on the poetics of reticence from Kingston University London where she was a recipient of an Arts and Humanities Research Council fellowship, and previous degrees in from Smith College (BA), Sarah Lawrence College (MFA) and the Bread Loaf School of English (MA). She is currently a lecturer at NYU London and a tutor at the Poetry School. Eve also teaches online poetry courses on zoom throughout the year. 

Eve’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in many literary journals and magazines, including The American Poetry Review, PN Review, The New Republic, Poetry Review, and Conjunctions, where her chapbook-size group of poems was featured and introduced by Fanny Howe. Her poems have also appeared in anthologies such as The Poets Quest for God: 21st Century Poems of Faith, Doubt, and Wonder (Eyewear Press 2016), The World is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins (Clemson / Liverpool University Press, 2016), and The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry (2014).