a hearth for Jewish poetry

Ori Fienberg

Poetry Lecturer, Northeastern University

Birth Year
b. 1983
Current City
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Birth City
Ames, Iowa, USA
Genre(s)
Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction
Author’s Website
Author Reading
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Biography

Ori Fienberg’s poetry is forthcoming this year in Cimarron Review, The Dallas Review, Ploughshares, Smartish Pace, and Superstition Review. Ori is the author of the chapbooks Old Habits, New Markets (elsewhere press), and Interim Assistant Dean of Having a Rich Inner Life (Ghost City Press). Additionally, Where Babies Come From (Cornerstone Press, 2024) will be available this fall. More writing can be found at orifienberg.com.

What is the relationship between Judaism and/or Jewish culture and your poetry?

While Ori’s work only occasionally engages directly with Jewish culture, he is inspired by other Jewish poets and writers, and his culture’s spirituality, folklore, food, debate, and humanistic values impact everything he writes.

Published Works

Where Babies Come From (Cornerstone Press, 2024)
Interim Assistant Dean of Having a Rich Inner Life (Ghost City Press, 2023)
Old Habits, New Markets (elsewhere micro-press, 2020)

Links to Sample Works

Subject Matter

Aging, Childhood, Cultural Identity, Environment & Climate Crisis, Grief & Elegy, History, Jewishness, Labor, Loss, Love, Motherhood/Fertility, Mythology, Narrative, Nature, Politics, Multidisciplinary, Mental Illness.