Shir Lovett-Graff
Executive Director, Attleboro Area Interfaith Collaborative
Biography
Shir Lovett-Graff is a writer and community organizer based in New England.
They hold a B.A. in Literature from New College of Florida and an M.T.S. with a concentration in Religion, Ethics, and Politics from Harvard Divinity School. They currently serve as the executive director for the Attleboro Area Interfaith Collaborative, and previously held roles in higher education, chaplaincy, and the Jewish nonprofit landscape.
What is the relationship between Judaism and/or Jewish culture and your poetry?
My work contains love letters, open criticisms, and self-deprecating satire directed towards traditional Jewish practice, political ideologies, and cultural norms. I use poetry as a space to play with radical imagination, whether through creating visions of anti-assimilationist Jewish practice or drawing beauty out of centuries of grief and trauma. I am drawn to the idea of translating the untranslatable and writing the impossible. I write as a spiritual practice, and is one of the ways I express, grapple with, and devote myself to a relationship with divinity and ancestry.
Read more about me here.
Links to Sample Works
SWIMM, “Deconstruct / Reconstruct”
The Westchester Review, “Spilled“
Subject Matter
Childhood, Cultural Identity, Diaspora, Eastern Europe, Environment & Climate Crisis, Family, Friendship, Gender, Grief & Elegy, Intergenerational Trauma, Israel/Palestine, Jewishness, Love, Nature, Politics, Reproductive Justice, Sex, Feminism, LGBTQ+.Profile created by Shir Lovett-Graff.
