Lewis Freedman
Managing Director / Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry
Biography
Lewis Freedman is the author of three books of poetry, Residual Synonyms for the Name of God and I Want Something Other Than Time (both from Ugly Duckling Presse), and the forthcoming Trillium Bsalm (Krupskaya Books). Additionally, he has authored many chapbooks, ephemera, and experiments on the form of the book including a handwritten artist-book version of I Want Something Other Than Time (also published by UDP) which documents a practice of reorienting the body in relation to the page, and Hold the Blue Orb, Baby (Well-Greased Press) which interleaves notebook facsimiles with poems on the practice of notebooking. He lives in Milwaukee and works as Managing Director of Yetzirah.
Published Works
Trillium Bsalm (Krupskaya Books, 2026)
I Want Something Other Than Time (Ugly Duckling Press, 2021)
Residual Synonyms for the Name of God (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016)
Links to Sample Works
The New York Times Magazine, “I Want Something Other Than Time”
Alienocene, “Give Us Something from the Dynasty of Vision“
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