a hearth for Jewish poetry

Seth Rosenbloom

Executive Coach & Consultant, Duende LLC

Birth Year
b. 1967
Birth City
Washington, DC, United States
Genre(s)
Poetry
Author’s Website
Photo credit: Photo Credit: Quinlan Corbett

Biography

Seth Rosenbloom is a poet, performing artist and a consultant to companies on leadership. Seth has written and performed solo shows staged at On the Boards, Theatre Off Jackson, and Bumbershoot. His poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Tupelo Quarterly, Orange Blossom Review and other journals. His work has been nominated for Best of the Net, shortlisted for publication awards by CutBank, 42 Miles Press and Frontier Poetry, and been a finalist for the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Prize. His full-length collection of poetry, Like Angels, was published by Sheila-Na-Gig Editions in 2026.

Seth’s volunteered for Mother Theresa in Kolkata, worked the set of an Oscar winning short film, built multimedia technology for Vodafone and Sony, was the third employee of a start-up purchased by Microsoft and established a management consulting practice that helped organizations across the US. Currently he consults and coaches executives. Seth was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Virginia and lives in Seattle.

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

My poetry pulls on the thick roots of memory, history, joy and grief. It grapples with questions Jews have faced since Abraham. What does it mean to be good? To choose life? And build bonds of loving kindness for one another.

Published Works

Like Angels (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2026)

Links to Sample Works

Poetry Northwest, “The Cove” https://www.poetrynw.org/poetry/the-cove/#mainContent

Emerge Literary Journal, “All My Dead Are Here” https://emergeliteraryjournal.com/all-my-dead-are-here/

Orange Blossom Review, “Military Grade” https://orangeblossomreview.org/journal/military-grade/

Subject Matter

Aging, Antisemitism, Art & Ekphrasis, Cultural Identity, Death, Diaspora, Eastern Europe, Environment & Climate Crisis, Family, Grief & Elegy, History, Jewish Mysticism, Jewishness, Love, Marriage, Narrative, Parenting, Shoah, Genocide, Mental Illness, Immigration, Dreams, Israel.