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Yehoshua November

Professor

Birth Year
b. 1979
Current City
Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
Birth City
Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Genre(s)
Poetry
Author’s Website

Biography

Yehoshua November is the author of God’s Optimism (a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize), Two Worlds Exist (a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and Paterson Poetry Prize), and The Concealment of Endless Light. His work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, The Sun, Tikkun, Virginia Quarterly Review, and on National Public Radio and On Being’s Poetry Unbound podcast program. He teaches writing at Rutgers and Touro University.

Published Works

The Concealment of Endless Light (Orison Books, 2024)
Two Worlds Exist
 (Orison Books, 2016)
God’s Optimism (Main Street Rag, 2010)

Links to Sample Works

Subject Matter

Childhood, Cultural Identity, Death, Family, Grief & Elegy, History, Jewish Mysticism, Jewishness, Love, Marriage, Midrash, Narrative, Parenting, Shoah, Genocide, Torah, Disability, Sports.