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SUMMARY:Yetzirah Book Club: October 25 (Part 1 of 2): Edward Hirsch
DESCRIPTION:Register for this book club here.\nWhile you’ll be registered for both events\, you can join us for one or both events. Both will be recorded and available in our archive. \nBy special arrangement of our friends at the Library of America\, the publisher of Hirsch’s book\, the book will be offered on sale at a 40 percent discount from October 1\, 2026 to November 15\, 2026. Order The Heart of American Poetry here.\n  \nOf the forty poets included in Edward Hirsch’s The Heart of American Poetry\, eight are Jewish. At least two others had Jewish ancestors. Let’s say that means that about 20 percent of the poets included in a book of American poets are Jewish—much higher than the 2.4 percent of the total population of Americans who are Jews! \nWhat can we learn by considering the work of Emma Lazarus\, Muriel Rukeyser\, Anthony Hecht\, Allen Ginsberg\, Philip Levine\, Adrienne Rich\, C. K. Williams\, and Louise Glück (as well as\, perhaps\, Denise Levertov and W.C. Williams) in the context of the other poets who are presented as poets at the heart of American poetry? How do Jewish poets fit into the context of American poetry? How is American poetry shaped by the work of American Jewish poets? These are some of the questions we will consider in this two-part meeting of Yetzirah’s book club as we learn from Edward Hirsch\, author of The Heart of American Poetry. \n  \nEdward Hirsch\, celebrated poet and inveterate advocate for poetry\, was born in Chicago\, educated at Grinnell College and then at the University of Pennsylvania\, where he earned a Ph.D. in folklore. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award\, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor\, the Prix de Rome\, and an Academy of Arts and Letters Award. In 2008\, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. His first collection of poems\, For the Sleepwalkers\, received the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University and the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. His second collection\, Wild Gratitude\, won the National Book Critics Award. Since then\, Hirsch has published eight additional books of poems and five books of prose\, including A Poet’s Glossary\, the result of decades of passionate study\, and How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry\, a national bestseller. A longtime teacher at Wayne State University and in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston\, Hirsch is now president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in Brooklyn. \n  \nAs we want our events to be accessible to all\, our tickets are offered free of charge. Yet if you’re able to donate—perhaps $18\, or some multiple of 18\, which in Jewish tradition signifies wishing long life and good luck to the recipient of the gift—all proceeds will go directly to supporting Yetzirah\, making more events like this possible. Yetzirah is a nonprofit organization\, and any gift you make is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by the law.
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/yetzirah-book-club-october-25-and-november-1-ed-hirsch/
CATEGORIES:Yetzirah Book Club
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SUMMARY:Regional Chapter Event: INTL: Israel Yetzirah Book Launch Event
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to U.S. poet Owen Lewis’ book launch\, A PRAYER OF SIX WINGS\, translated into Hebrew by Daffi Kadush. Books in English and Hebrew will be available.  \n\n\n\nThe event will take place on Thursday\, October 29\, at 8 p.m. at Poetry Place (Makom Leshira). Entrance is free. The event is co-hosted by Yetzirah’s Jerusalem chapter. 
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/regional-chapter-event-intl-israel-yetzirah-book-launch-event/
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SUMMARY:Regional Chapter Event: IL: Chicagoland Yetzirah Reading Event
DESCRIPTION:This event will be held at Oak Park Temple\, where Rabbi/Poet and Yetzirah member Pam Wax will read from her new poetry collection\, Every Beast of My Heart. Pam will sign her new book after the event. \n\n\n\nContact Dina Elenbogen at dinaelenbogen@gmail.com to RSVP for this reading.
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/regional-chapter-event-il-chicagoland-yetzirah-reading-event/
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SUMMARY:Yetzirah Book Club: November 1 (Part 2 of 2): Edward Hirsch
DESCRIPTION:Register for this book club here.\nWhile you’ll be registered for both events\, you can join us for one or both events. Both will be recorded and available in our archive. \nBy special arrangement of our friends at the Library of America\, the publisher of Hirsch’s book\, the book will be offered on sale at a 40 percent discount from October 1\, 2026 to November 15\, 2026. Order The Heart of American Poetry here.\n  \nOf the forty poets included in Edward Hirsch’s The Heart of American Poetry\, eight are Jewish. At least two others had Jewish ancestors. Let’s say that means that about 20 percent of the poets included in a book of American poets are Jewish—much higher than the 2.4 percent of the total population of Americans who are Jews! \nWhat can we learn by considering the work of Emma Lazarus\, Muriel Rukeyser\, Anthony Hecht\, Allen Ginsberg\, Philip Levine\, Adrienne Rich\, C. K. Williams\, and Louise Glück (as well as\, perhaps\, Denise Levertov and W.C. Williams) in the context of the other poets who are presented as poets at the heart of American poetry? How do Jewish poets fit into the context of American poetry? How is American poetry shaped by the work of American Jewish poets? These are some of the questions we will consider in this two-part meeting of Yetzirah’s book club as we learn from Edward Hirsch\, author of The Heart of American Poetry. \n  \nEdward Hirsch\, celebrated poet and inveterate advocate for poetry\, was born in Chicago\, educated at Grinnell College and then at the University of Pennsylvania\, where he earned a Ph.D. in folklore. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award\, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor\, the Prix de Rome\, and an Academy of Arts and Letters Award. In 2008\, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. His first collection of poems\, For the Sleepwalkers\, received the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University and the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. His second collection\, Wild Gratitude\, won the National Book Critics Award. Since then\, Hirsch has published eight additional books of poems and five books of prose\, including A Poet’s Glossary\, the result of decades of passionate study\, and How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry\, a national bestseller. A longtime teacher at Wayne State University and in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston\, Hirsch is now president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in Brooklyn. \n  \nAs we want our events to be accessible to all\, our tickets are offered free of charge. Yet if you’re able to donate—perhaps $18\, or some multiple of 18\, which in Jewish tradition signifies wishing long life and good luck to the recipient of the gift—all proceeds will go directly to supporting Yetzirah\, making more events like this possible. Yetzirah is a nonprofit organization\, and any gift you make is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by the law.
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/yetzirah-book-club-november-1-part-2-of-2-edward-hirsch/
CATEGORIES:Yetzirah Book Club
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SUMMARY:Regional Chapter Event: CA: Los Angeles Yetzirah Reading
DESCRIPTION:Yetzirah LA and Chevalier’s Bookstore are partnering up for a poetry event! Please join uson November 5 at 7 PM for Poets of the Sacred and Profane\, a reading by Deborah Leipziger\, Bill Ratner\,and Donna Spruijt-Metz at 133 N. Larchmont Blvd\, Los Angeles\, 90004\, with a gathering afterwards at a private home (address provided at event).
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/regional-chapter-event-ca-los-angeles-yetzirah-reading/
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SUMMARY:Regional Chapter Event: Boston Yetzirah Salon featuring Matthew Lippman and Lisa Rosinsky
DESCRIPTION:In-person: Boston Yetzirah Salon featuring Matthew Lippman and Lisa Rosinsky  \n10:30 am on November 8 \nRSVP using this  Google Form to receive the address. 
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/regional-chapter-event-boston-yetzirah-salon-featuring-matthew-lippman-and-lisa-rosinsky/
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SUMMARY:[X] for Poets: "Children's Book Writing for Poets" with Lesléa Newman\, Sarah Sassoon\, and Rich Michelson
DESCRIPTION:Register for this three-session workshop here.\n\n\n\nIf you would like to sign up for Lesléa’s workshop only\, please click here.If you would like to sign up for only Sarah’s workshop only\, please click here.If you would like to sign up for only Richard’s workshop only\, please click here. \n\n\n\nYou can order books from our workshop leaders here\, with a percentage of every purchase going to support Yetzirah.\n\n\n\nPlease note that each faculty member will lead one session of this series\, though they will all plan together. \n\n\n\nSession 1: 11/08/26 – Lesléa Newman12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. EST \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe ABCs of Poetry: Writing in Verse for Children and Teens \n\n\n\nFormal poetry is poetry that sticks to a traditional pattern or structure and often uses rhyme\, rhythm\, and repetition\, as well as other poetic techniques. Writing it is very much like solving a puzzle\, and it is thrilling to watch all the pieces fall into place! Young readers love poetry and the seemingly contradictory but actually complementary elements of predictability and surprise it holds. \n\n\n\nThis lecture presents an overview of poetic forms\, including haiku\, pantoum\, sestina\, ballad\, ghazal\, and villanelle\, with many examples of poems written for very young children\, middle-grade readers\, teens\, and adults. We will discuss the poems of Langston Hughes\, Jane Yolen\, Meg Kearney\, Richard Wright\, and Dr. Seuss\, among others. The goal of the workshop is to demystify formal poetry\, which some poets—even those with years of experience—find intimidating\, and inspire writers to try their hand at it to see how much fun it can be to write formal verse for children and teens. Some time will be set aside for writing based on prompts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession 2: 11/15/26 – Sarah Sassoon12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. EST \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Image in Picture Books: Writing Through Objects and Memory \n\n\n\nIn this generative workshop\, we will explore how picture books begin—not with plot\, but with image. Guided by my picture book Shoham’s Bangle\, which is inspired by my grandmother’s journey from Iraq\, we will enter storytelling through objects that hold memory. \n\n\n\nIn children’s literature\, a single image can carry an entire story. A bangle\, a pot on the stove\, a thread\, a stone—these are not just details; they are emotional anchors. They allow young readers to feel before they fully understand. Together\, we will write into these objects. We will ask: what does this object remember? What story does it hold? How can it speak simply\, yet carry something vast? \n\n\n\nThrough generative prompts\, we will explore: \n\n\n\n\nHow image drives story in picture books\n\n\n\nHow to create emotional resonance through concrete detail\n\n\n\nHow to write with clarity\, simplicity\, and depth for young readers\n\n\n\nHow objects can hold themes of home\, memory\, displacement\, and belonging\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop is an invitation to trust image—to let the smallest details open into meaningful stories for children. \n\n\n\nCome with curiosity\, and if you wish\, bring an object that holds a story. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession 3: 11/22/26 – Richard Michelson 12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. EST \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry for Children\, Teens\, Adults: Commonalities and Differences \n\n\n\nGreat poetry is great poetry\, whether aimed at children\, teens\, or adults. With any luck we will experience all three phases of life. Yet some of our finest poets are unable to bridge the divide\, while others write magnificently for different audiences. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will be geared to those writers hoping to spread their wings and broaden their audience. We will look at examples of award-winning adult poets who have been able to connect with children\, and well-known children’s authors who’ve broken through writing for adults. We will read poets who are equally at ease in both camps: Richard Wilbur\, Ted Hughes\, Naomi Shihab Nye\, Nikki Giovanni\, and others. And we’ll try our hand at crossing those boundaries ourselves. \n\n\n\nWorkshop Dates & Cost\n\n\n\nNovember 8\, 15\, and 22\, 2026\, 12:00-1:30 p.m. EST \n\n\n\n$162 for all three or $54 for each—standard registration $132 for all three or $44 for each—18% discounted registration for Yetzirah Members (you can become a member here) \n\n\n\n*As we want our offerings to be accessible to all\, there is a pay-what-you-can option if this pricing is a hardship. No one will be turned away for lack of funds\, but please contact Program Coordinator Kyra Lisse at klisse@yetzirahpoets.org if you would like a sliding-scale ticket. \n\n\n\nAbout Lesléa\n\n\n\nLesléa Newman has created 90 books for readers of all ages including the memoirs-in-verse\, I Carry My Mother and I Wish My Father; the novel-in-verse\, October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard; the poetry chapbook\, I Remember: Hachiko Speaks; the short story collection\, A Letter to Harvey Milk; and the children’s books\, The Babka Sisters\, Gittel’s Journey\, Song of the Dead Sea Scrolls\, and Something Sweet: A Sitting Shiva Story. \n\n\n\nIndividual poems have appeared in dozens of literary publications including Lilith\, The Sun\, Moment Magazine\, Tikkun\, The Jewish Writing Project\, Calul Journal\, and Judith Magazine. In addition\, her work has been translated into French\, German\, Italian\, Spanish\, Turkish\, Serbian\, Kazakh\, and Chinese. Lesléa’s awards and honors include poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation\, two National Jewish Book Awards\, two American Library Association Stonewall Honors\, the Massachusetts Book Award\, six Pushcart Prize nominations\, the Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Body-of-Work Award\, the Keshet Foundation Hachamat Lev Award\, the Burning Bush Poetry Award\, the Matthew Shepard Foundation Making a Difference Award\, and a Christopher Medal. From 2008 – 2010\, she served as the poet laureate of Northampton\, MA. \n\n\n\nHer newest poetry collection\, The Last Flame Last\, a suite of 18 post-October 7th poems\, will be published in November 2026 by Finishing Line Press. \n\n\n\nAbout Sarah\n\n\n\nSarah Sassoon is an Australian-born Iraqi Jewish writer\, poet\, and educator. Her work explores Iraqi Jewish history\, exile\, resilience\, and the 2\,600-year-old culture of Babylonian Jews\, with particular attention to Middle Eastern women’s experiences. She is the author of the award-winning picture books Shoham’s Bangle and This Is Not a Cholent\, and co-author of The In-Between (Verlagshaus Berlin). Her poetry micro-chapbook This Is Why We Don’t Look Back won the Harbor Review Jewish Women’s Poetry Prize. Her collection\, An Oud in the Orchestra (Keter Publishing)\, is forthcoming. Her novel-in-verse Baghdad Girl was shortlisted for the Wingate Award 2024. \n\n\n\nAbout Rich\n\n\n\nRichard Michelson’s books for children\, teens\, and adults have been named among the Ten Best of the Year by the New York Times\, Publishers Weekly\, and the New Yorker; and among the Best Dozen of the Decade by Amazon.com. Michelson has received a National Jewish Book Award and two Sydney Taylor Gold Medals from the Association of Jewish Libraries. Six of Michelson’s children’s books were PJ Library selections. His poetry collections include Sleeping as Fast as I Can (Slant)\, More Money than God (Pitt Poetry Series)\, and Battles and Lullabies (U of Illinois Press). The Jerusalem Post says: “Michelson has a profound grasp of Jewish history\, of antisemitism and pogroms\, of moral teachings and midrash\, of sinners and prophets . . . [Michelson’s] is an indispensable Jewish voice in this generation.” \n\n\n\nA native of East New York\, Brooklyn\, Michelson served two terms as Poet Laureate of Northampton\, Massachusetts\, where he hosts Northampton Poetry Radio and owns R. Michelson Galleries. 
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/x-for-poets-childrens-book-writing-for-poets-with-leslea-newman-sarah-sassoon-and-rich-michelson/
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SUMMARY:Regional Chapter Event: NY: New York City Yetzirah
DESCRIPTION:This event will take place at 15 Charles at Waverly Place. RSVP to Sharon Dolin at sharonjdolin@gmail.com.
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/regional-chapter-event-ny-new-york-city-yetzirah/
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SUMMARY:[X] for Poets: "Reviews & Interviews for Poets" with Jake Marmer
DESCRIPTION:Register for this workshop here.\nYou can order Jake’s book here\, with a percentage of every purchase going to support Yetzirah.\nSession 1: Reviews and Interviews Are Poetry Too \nFinding yourself in the poetry of others is a revelatory experience—and it is probably why so many of us write poetry in the first place. But how does one articulate that revelation and put it into words? How do we illuminate our experience for others and help them see what we see in the poems we love? Reviewing new poetry collections and interviewing contemporary poets is a quintessential part of being a poet: it is about reading deeply\, learning our craft\, sharing and asking questions—but also making a crucial contribution to the poetic ecosystem. After all\, if we\, poets\, do not bring a spotlight to each other’s work\, who will? In this workshop\, we’ll read examples of poet-critics at their best\, and attempt our own reviews and interview questions—discovering that the act of writing about poetry is itself a poetic act. \n  \nSession 2: Poetics\, Pre-Faces\, and Pre-Rambles \nYou wrote a book of poems. You found one of your many voices. You came up with a new poetic form. An ancient poetic form found you. Writing a preface helps you frame the reader’s experience—and more importantly\, it helps you articulate your own practice and vision. And yet\, how many prefaces have you read that actually captivated you? So many prefaces out there are perfunctory\, indulgent\, plain boring. In this workshop\, we’ll explore the work of poets Jerome Rothenberg and David Meltzer\, who did not take their prefaces lightly but experienced them as extensions of their poetry—quiet manifestos\, expanded conversations\, mysterious strolls behind the curtain. We’ll each attempt our own poetics statement\, one that is every bit as alive as our poems. \nWorkshop Dates & Cost\nNovember 11 & 18\, 2026\, 7:00-8:00 PM \n$72—standard registration\n$59—18% discounted registration for Yetzirah Members (you can become a member here) \n*As we want our offerings to be accessible to all\, there is a pay-what-you-can option if this pricing is a hardship. No one will be turned away for lack of funds\, but please contact Program Coordinator Kyra Lisse at klisse@yetzirahpoets.org if you would like a sliding-scale ticket. \nAbout Jake\nJake Marmer is a writer\, performer\, and educator. His previous books include Cosmic Diaspora (Station Hill Press\, 2020)\, The Neighbor Out of Sound (The Sheep Meadow Press\, 2018)\, and Jazz Talmud (The Sheep Meadow Press\, 2012). He has also released two klez-jazz-poetry records: Purple Tentacles of Thought and Desire (2020\, with Cosmic Diaspora Trio) and Hermeneutic Stomp (Blue Fringe Music\, 2013). Born in the provincial steppes of Ukraine — in a city renamed four times in the past hundred years — he lives in Philadelphia\, PA. More at jakemarmer.com. \n 
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/x-for-poets-reviews-interviews-for-poets-with-jake-marmer/
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SUMMARY:Regional Chapter Event: NJ: Central/ Northern New Jersey Yetzirah Co-sponsored Event: Poetry\, Torah & Conversation 
DESCRIPTION:The event is co-sponsored by Yetzirah and Machshava.  \nYou may RSVP for either the Zoom or in-person event here: https://luma.com/pjq6s2gm
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/regional-chapter-event-nj-central-northern-new-jersey-yetzirah-co-sponsored-event-poetry-torah-conversation/
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SUMMARY:Regional Chapter Event: Philadelphia Yetzirah Salon with Poet Sharon Dolin
DESCRIPTION:For more information about these events\, contact momat927@gmail.com
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/poetry-salon-with-poet-sharon-dolin/
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SUMMARY:Reading Series: November 15: Avia Tadmor\, Jill Bialosky\, and Irena Klepfisz
DESCRIPTION:Register for this reading here.\nYou can order books from our readers here\, with a percentage of every purchase going to support Yetzirah. \n  \n\n\nAvia Tadmor is the author of Song in Tammuz (Tupelo Press\, 2026)\, winner of the International Berkshire Prize. Her poetry appears in The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day\, The New Republic\, Best New Poets\, and New England Review\, among other publications. Avia received fellowships and awards from Yaddo\, the Rona Jaffe Foundation\, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, Vermont Studio Center\, Poets & Writers\, and was named a Gregory Djanikian Scholar by the Adroit Journal. Previously\, Avia taught writing at Columbia University\, where she co-directed the Medical Humanities First-Year Writing Courses as well as the Columbia Artist/Teachers Program\, promoting no-cost arts education in schools and community organizations in NYC. Avia is a graduate of the United World College program\, educating for constructive dialogue\, peace\, and a sustainable future. Currently\, she is a Clinical Associate Professor at New York University. Born in Jerusalem\, she lives in New York. Website: www.aviatadmor.com. \nJill Bialosky’s most recent book of poetry is Mock Heart: New & Selected Poems.  She is the author of Asylum: A Personal\, Historical\, Natural Inquiry in 103 Lyric Sections\, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and four other acclaimed collections of poetry\, four critically acclaimed novels\, most recently\, The Deceptions\, a finalist for the Gotham Book Award\, and a three memoirs\, The End is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother\, Poetry Will Save Your Life\, and New York Times bestselling memoir History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic Monthly\, Harper’s\, O Magazine\, The Kenyon Review\, Harvard Review\, Paris Review and Best American Poetry among others. She co-edited with Helen Schulman the anthology\, Wanting a Child. She is an Executive Editor and Vice President at W. W. Norton & Company. She was honored by the Poetry Society of America for her distinguished contribution to poetry. \nIrena Klepfisz is a lesbian/activist poet. She was a co-founder of the ground breaking Conditions magazine and a co-founder of the Jewish Women’s Committee to End the Occupation (JWCEO).  She co-edited The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women’s Anthology\, contributed to Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology and wrote the introduction to Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers and served as the Yiddish editor for the Jewish feminist magazine Bridges. For her poetry\, she has received a NYS CAPS grant and NEA fellowship. Her most recent collection\, Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems\,1971–2021 (Wesleyan UP)\, was a finalist of the 2022 National Book Award in poetry and the winner of the 2023 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. In 1923\, a bilingual edition of her poetry and prose\, Pomiędzy światami / Between Worlds was published in Poland.   \n   \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\nAs we want our events to be accessible to all\, our tickets are offered free of charge. Yet if you’re able to donate—perhaps $18\, or some multiple of 18\, which in Jewish tradition signifies wishing long life and good luck to the recipient of the gift—all proceeds will go directly toward supporting Yetzirah\, making more events like this possible. Yetzirah is a nonprofit organization\, and any gift you make is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by the law.
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/reading-series-november-15-irena-klepfisz-jill-bialosky-and-avia-tadmor/
CATEGORIES:Yetzirah Reading Series
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SUMMARY:Partner Event: Jewish Lesbian Poetry Night
DESCRIPTION:Join Lilith and Sinister Widsom to celebrate 100 years of Jewish publishing with a special evening of Jewish lesbian and feminist poetry with Irena Klepfisz\, Robin Becker\, and Julie R. Enszer. This event is cosponsored by Yetzirah.
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/partner-event-jewish-lesbian-poetry-night/
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SUMMARY:Regional Chapter Event: NY: Fingerlakes Yetzirah Virtual Workshop
DESCRIPTION:“Exploring Light & Darkness: a Generative Zoom Workshop.” \n\n\n\nContact Rabbi Suzanne Brody to register at sabrody@gmail.com or flxyetzirah@gmail.com.
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/regional-chapter-event-ny-finger-lakes-yetzirah-virtual-workshop/
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SUMMARY:Regional Chapter Event: Israel Yetzirah
DESCRIPTION:Location to be announced.   \n\n\n\nFor those interested in reading\, please email jchen.rc@yetzirahpoets.org
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/regional-chapter-event-israel-yetzirah/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261203T183000
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SUMMARY:[X] for Poets: "Fiction for Poets" with Peter Orner
DESCRIPTION:Register for this workshop here.\n\n\n\nYou can order Peter’s book here\, with a percentage of every purchase going to support Yetzirah.\n\n\n\nIn this two-hour workshop\, we’ll look at how studying fiction can animate poetry in surprising ways. I’ve long been interested\, even obsessed\, by what fiction writers can learn from poets. I think especially of compression\, and the poets can muster with so few words. But what about the other way around? What can poets gain from becoming more steeped in fiction? We’ll look in particular at narrative momentum. How does fiction\, at its best\, and through a whole host of sometimes obvious\, sometimes mysterious techniques (and instincts) grab and hold a reader’s attention. \n\n\n\nFor instance\, this is the first sentence of Dennis Cooper’s I Wished: “I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about him honestly like I am doing now I felt a complicated agony beneath my words that talking openly can’t handle.” So much to say about this line\, and in this class I might ask you to pause at that odd phrase “like I am doing now.” The book has only just begun? \n\n\n\nWhat does a phrase do to our expectations of what’s to come? Momentum\, expectations. How do they manifest in fiction? This will be our singular focus — and we’d need a lot more than two hours to do it justice\, but it will be a start! Among the writers we’ll talk about are Marilynne Robinson\, John Edgar Wideman\, Penelope Fitzgerald\, Dennis Cooper\, Lucia Berlin\, Italo Calvino\, and VIrginia Woolf because I always at some point come home to Virginia Woolf\, a fiction writer who has so much to give to any writer\, whether they create poetry or prose . . . \n\n\n\nWorkshop Dates & Cost\n\n\n\nDecember 3\, 2026\, 6:30-8:30 PM \n\n\n\n$72—standard registration$59—18% discounted registration for Yetzirah Members (you can become a member here) \n\n\n\n*As we want our offerings to be accessible to all\, there is a pay-what-you-can option if this pricing is a hardship. No one will be turned away for lack of funds\, but please contact Program Coordinator Kyra Lisse at klisse@yetzirahpoets.org if you would like a sliding-scale ticket. \n\n\n\nAbout Peter\n\n\n\nPeter Orner’s fiction and non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times\, the Atlantic Monthly\, Granta\, The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, McSweeney’s\, The Southern Review\, Ploughshares and many other publications. Stories have been anthologized in Best American Stories and twice received a Pushcart Prize. Peter has been awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and a two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship. He’s also received a California Book Award (LOVE AND SHAME AND LOVE)\, the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Writing (ESTHER STORIES) and has been a finalist for the Pen/ Hemingway Award ESTHER STORIES\, the Los Angeles Times Book Award (THE SECOND COMING OF MAVALA SHIKONGO)\, and the Northern California Book Award (LAST CAR OVER THE SAGAMORE BRIDGE) . In 2017-2018\, Peter was a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in Namibia where he taught at the University of Namibia.
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/x-for-poets-fiction-for-poets-with-peter-orner/
CATEGORIES:Generative Workshop,X for Poets,Yetzirah Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261213T120000
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SUMMARY:Generative Workshop: "Writing the Biblical Persona: Doubt\, Devotion & Courage" with Avia Tadmor
DESCRIPTION:Register for this workshop here.\nYou can order Avia’s book here\, with a percentage of every purchase going to support Yetzirah.\nThe poet Mary Oliver famously said\, “attention is the beginning of devotion.” In this workshop\, we will practice paying attention as a pathway to deep inquiry\, courage\, imagination\, and devotion. We will read selected poems from a range of contemporary women poets who draw\, at times\, on biblical personas—Marie Howe\, Mary Szybist\, Carlene Kucharczyk\, Isabella DeSendi\, Jessica Jacobs\, Carlie Hoffman\, Nan Cohen\, Sarah Ghazal Ali\, and Traci Brimhall—whose writing is courageously awake to the world and their own faith-fueled\, and often doubt-fueled\, movement through it. \nThrough in-workshop exercises and reflection on our own creative process\, this workshop will encourage you to deepen your own inquiry into the worlds (yes\, all of them!) you inhabit. In particular\, we’ll explore the affordances of writing through a persona–religious or not–to investigate personal history\, the (oft-fragmented) self\, and daily encounters as sites of discovery\, doubt\, and devotion. \nWorkshop Dates & Cost\nDecember 13\, 2026\, 12:00-3:00 PM \n$108—standard registration\n$87—18% discounted registration for Yetzirah Members (you can become a member here) \n*As we want our offerings to be accessible to all\, there is a pay-what-you-can option if this pricing is a hardship. No one will be turned away for lack of funds\, but please contact Program Coordinator Kyra Lisse at klisse@yetzirahpoets.org if you would like a sliding-scale ticket. \nAbout Avia\nAvia Tadmor is the author of the debut poetry collection Song in Tammuz\, winner of the Tupelo Press International Berkshire Prize (forthcoming October 2026). Her poems appear in Best New Poets\, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day\, the New Republic\, New England Review\, and elsewhere. Avia’s poetry has received scholarships and awards from Yaddo\, the Rona Jaffe Foundation\, Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop\, the Vermont Studio Center\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, Poets & Writers\, and the Adroit Journal’s Gregory Djanikian Scholars Program. \nAvia has taught writing at Columbia University\, where she directed the Columbia Artist/Teachers program\, promoting no-cost arts education in schools and community organizations in NYC. Currently\, she is a Clinical Associate Professor at New York University. \nA graduate of the United World College program educating for constructive dialogue\, peace\, and a sustainable future\, Avia holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from Harvard University.  Born in Jerusalem\, she lives in New York. \n 
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/generative-workshop-writing-the-biblical-persona-doubt-devotion-courage-with-avia-tadmor/
CATEGORIES:Generative Workshop,Yetzirah Workshops
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SUMMARY:Regional Chapter Event: Israel Yetzirah In-Person Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The title for this workshop is What I Really Wanted to Say: Poetry As a Way In.    \n\n\n\nThis will be a paid event. Registration will be limited and all proceeds will go towards funding a grant for the Yetzirah conference in the US in early summer.  \n\n\n\nFor more information\, please email jchen.rc@yetzirahpoets.org
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/regional-chapter-event-israel-yetzirah-in-person-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261224T120000
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SUMMARY:Generative Workshop: "Finding Light in the Dark of Winter" with Eve Grubin
DESCRIPTION:Register for this generative workshop here.\nYou can order Eve’s book here\, with a percentage of every purchase going to support Yetzirah.\nThis workshop will take place on December 24th\, with the aim of transforming a set of days that can sometimes be lonely or restless for Jewish writers into one rich with meaning\, self-reflection\, and productive thinking and writing. The session is for poets of all traditions who would like to work with Jewish themes. Participants will discuss craft while analyzing inspiring poems written by a range of Jewish poets—from ancient to contemporary times—and generative prompts will be given to inspire some new poems of your own. \nWorkshop Dates & Cost\nDecember 24\, 2026\, 12:00-2:00 PM \n$72—standard registration\n$59—18% discounted registration for Yetzirah Members (you can become a member here) \n*As we want our offerings to be accessible to all\, there is a pay-what-you-can option if this pricing is a hardship. No one will be turned away for lack of funds\, but please contact Program Coordinator Kyra Lisse at klisse@yetzirahpoets.org if you would like a sliding-scale ticket. \nAbout Eve\nEve Grubin is the author of the collections of poems: Morning Prayer (Sheep Meadow Press\, 2005)\, The House of Our First Loving\, a chapbook\, (Rack Press\, 2016)\, and Grief Dialogue\, a chapbook\, (Rack Press\, 2022). Her next book of poems\, Boat of Letters\, is forthcoming from Four Way Books. She teaches at NYU London and The Poetry School. More information can be found at www.evegrubin.com. Visit Eve’s profile in our Discover Jewish Poets database. \n 
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/generative-workshop-finding-light-in-the-dark-of-winter-with-eve-grubin/
CATEGORIES:Generative Workshop,Yetzirah Workshops
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SUMMARY:Reading Series: January 31: Aharon Shabtai and Peter Cole | Mireille Gansel and Joan Sidney
DESCRIPTION:Register for this reading here.\nYou can order books from our readers here\, with a percentage of every purchase going to support Yetzirah.\n\n\n  Peter Cole’s most recent book of poems is Draw Me After (FSG). His new translations include Requiem\, by Aharon Shabtai (New Directions)\, which won the National Jewish Book Award\, and On the Slaughter: Selected Poems\, by Haim Nahman Bialik (NYRB). He recently published That Simple?… That Complicated: Conversations on Poetry and Translation (Free Poetry). Cole has translated widely from Hebrew and Arabic\, medieval and modern\, and has received numerous honors for his work\, including a PEN Translation Prize\, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship\, a MacArthur Fellowship\, a National Jewish Book Award\, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. Aharon Shabtai was born in 1939 in Tel Aviv and grew up there and on Kibbutz Merhavia. The author of over twenty volumes of poetry\, he is also the foremost translator of ancient Greek literature into Hebrew\, having published over thirty plays in annotated editions\, as well as both the Iliad and the Odyssey. Four selections of his work have appeared in English translations by Peter Cole: Love & Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press\, 1997); J’accuse (New Directions\, 2003)\, which received the PEN Prize for Poetry in Translation; War & Love\, Love & War: Selected Poems (New Directions\, 2010); and Requiem and Other Poems (New Directions\, 2025)\, which received the National Jewish Book Award. Joan Seliger Sidney is the Special Research Associate and Writer-in-Residence at the University of Connecticut’s Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life. Her published books include Body of Diminishing Motion: Poems and a Memoir (an Eric Hoffer Legacy Finalist\, CavanKerry)\, Bereft and Blessed (AntrimHouse)\, and The Way the Past Comes Back (The Kutenai Press). Soul House\, Sidney’s translation of Mireille Gansel’s Maison d’Âme\, was published by World Poetry Books\, November 2023. Poems from the book were published in New Poetry in Translation\, The Common\, Asymptote\, and were nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Soul House was long-listed for the Arrowsmith Translation Prize\, to be decided October 15\, 2024. Sidney’s poems and essays were also published in Fast Funny Woman\, Fast Fierce Women\, Fast Fallen Women\, Pure Slush Anthologies\, and in the CT Literary Anthology\, 2023. Mireille Gansel has won major awards for both her translations of German and Vietnamese poets\, and for some of her seven books of poetry. Her lyrical memoir\, Translation as Transhumance-published in an English translation by Ros Schwartz-has contributed significantly to the field of translation studies. She received the Veu Lliure 2021 Prize from the Catalan PEN. In 2018\, Mireille became the Laureate of the Great Prize of Translation Etienne Dolet-Sorbonne Université. Other awards include the Khoury-Ghata poetry prize\, the Gérald de Nerval translation prize\, an English PEN Award\, and a French Voices Award. Gansel’s first book of poetry in English translation\, SOUL HOUSE (translated by Joan Seliger Sidney)\, was published by World Poetry in 2023.     \n\n\n\n\nAs we want our events to be accessible to all\, our tickets are offered free of charge. Yet if you’re able to donate—perhaps $18\, or some multiple of 18\, which in Jewish tradition signifies wishing long life and good luck to the recipient of the gift—all proceeds will go directly to supporting Yetzirah\, making more events like this possible. Yetzirah is a nonprofit organization\, and any gift you make is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by the law.
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/reading-series-january-31-aharon-shabtai-and-peter-cole-mireille-gansel-and-joan-sidney/
CATEGORIES:Yetzirah Reading Series
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SUMMARY:Yetzirah Book Club: February 7: Brenda Miller
DESCRIPTION:Register for this book club here.\n\n\n\nYou can order Brenda’s book here\, with a percentage of every purchase going to support Yetzirah.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nPlease join us on Zoom for a lively conversation with Brenda Miller about her new hybrid collection\, Love You\, Bye: A Daughter’s Journey in Essays and Poems\, moderated by Yetzirah Book Club host Rick Chess. \n\n\n\nRobin Hemley\, author of How to Change History: A Salvage Project\, says about Love You\, Bye\, “Approach this book not as your typical collection of essays and poems\, but as a jar of bright beads\, cohesively combined yet individually shimmering as they catch the tender reflected light of their subjects: Miller’s aging parents foremost\, as well as Miller’s own many stored selves from childhood to early old age. Long admired as an essayist of stunning invention and sensitivity\, Miller had me nearly in tears from the outset and wouldn’t let me catch my shaky breath until the very last.”  \n\n\n\nLove You\, Bye is just out from Skinner House Books (April 2026). Brenda Miller is the author of six additional essay collections\, including A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form\, and An Earlier Life\, winner of the Washington State Book Award for Memoir. Her work has received seven Pushcart Prizes. She co-authored\, with Holly J. Hughes\, The Pen and the Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World\, and\, with Suzanne Paola\, Tell It Slant: Creating\, Refining\, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction\, now in its third edition. She coined the term “Hermit Crab Essay.” Her website is www.brendamillerwriter.com. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nBrenda Miller is the author of six essay collections\, including A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form\, Listening Against the Stone\, and An Earlier Life\, which received the Washington State Book Award for Memoir. Her work has received seven Pushcart Prizes. She co-authored\, with Suzanne Paola\, the textbook Tell it Slant: Creating\, Refining\, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction and co-wrote\, with Holly J. Hughes\, The Pen and the Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World. She is Professor Emerita of Creative Writing at Western Washington University. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nAs we want our events to be accessible to all\, our tickets are offered free of charge. Yet if you’re able to donate—perhaps $18\, or some multiple of 18\, which in Jewish tradition signifies wishing long life and good luck to the recipient of the gift—all proceeds will go directly to supporting Yetzirah\, making more events like this possible. Yetzirah is a nonprofit organization and any gift you make is tax deductible to the extent allowed by the law.
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/yetzirah-book-club-february-7-brenda-miller/
CATEGORIES:Yetzirah Book Club
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SUMMARY:Reading Series: February 28: Laynie Browne\, Matthew Zapruder\, and Lynn Emanuel
DESCRIPTION:Register for this reading here.\nYou can order books from our readers here\, with a percentage of every purchase going to support Yetzirah.\n  \n\n\nLaynie Browne is a poet\, prose writer\, teacher\, and editor. She is the author of eighteen collections of poems and four books of fiction. Browne’s recent books of poetry include: Apprentice to a Breathing Hand (Omnidawn\, 2025) Everyone & Her Resemblances (Pamenar\, 2024)\, Intaglio Daughters (Ornithopter 2023)\, Practice Has No Sequel (Pamenar 2023). She co-edited the anthology I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues Press) and edited the anthology A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on The Poet’s Novel (Nightboat). Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times and in anthologies including The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press)\, The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street\, UK)\, and Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (W.W. Norton). Her poetry has been translated into French\, Spanish\, Chinese\, and Catalan. Honors include a Pew Fellowship\, the National Poetry Series Award\, and the Contemporary Poetry Series Award. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. \nMatthew Zapruder is the author most recently of the poetry collections I Love Hearing Your Dreams (Scribner\, 2024)\, and How to Continue (The Economy Press\, 2025). His previous books also include Why Poetry (Ecco/Harper Collins) and Story of a Poem (Unnamed). He is editor at large at Wave Books\, where he edits contemporary poetry\, prose\, and translations. He teaches in the MFA in creative writing at Saint Mary’s College of California\, and plays music with The Figments and We Are Leaves. You can find him on Substack or at matthewzapruder.com. \nLynn Emanuel is the author of six books of poetry. Her selected poems\, The Nerve of It\, was awarded the Lenore Marshall Award by The Academy of American Poets. She has been awarded the Eric Matthieu King Award from the Academy\, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, The National Poetry Series Award\, and a fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.  She has been a judge for the National Book Awards and has taught at various venues including the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, The Warren Wilson Program.  Her poetry has been published and reviewed in The New York Times Book Review\, The New York Times Magazine\, LA Review of Books\, Publisher’s Weekly and has been translated into Russian\, Spanish\, Mongolian\, French\, and Urdu.  \n\n\n  \nAs we want our events to be accessible to all\, our tickets are offered free of charge. Yet if you’re able to donate—perhaps $18\, or some multiple of 18\, which in Jewish tradition signifies wishing long life and good luck to the recipient of the gift—all proceeds will go directly to supporting Yetzirah\, making more events like this possible. Yetzirah is a nonprofit organization\, and any gift you make is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by the law.
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/reading-series-february-28-laynie-browne-lynn-emanuel-and-matthew-zapruder/
CATEGORIES:Yetzirah Reading Series
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SUMMARY:[X] for Poets: "Personal Essay for Poets: Experiments in Hybrid Prose Forms" with Charlotte Friedman
DESCRIPTION:Register for this workshop here.\nPoet and essayist Marianne Boruch writes\, “Both poetry and the essay come from the same impulse—to think about something and\, at the same time\, see it closely\, carefully\, and enact it.” Imagine your poetry-self sitting down with your prose-self to talk through a piece of writing—a personal essay you’d like to create. Each brings its own unique way of thinking\, its own language. They may even argue. The poetry-self spirals inward\, dwelling in images\, phrases\, a moment in time\, while the prose-self whirls outward\, with sentences and connections propelling the reader forward. But what if they decided to collaborate? Just as the two superimposed\, equilateral triangles create the powerful symbol of the Star of David\, our poetry and prose can merge to engender the potent hybrid form of the lyric essay. \nIn this three-session workshop\, each meeting will focus on a different type of lyric essay: collage\, braided\, and collaborative. We’ll intertwine biblical stories with our own\, borrow language from Jewish philosophers such as Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Buber\, and even work in chavruta to write a dual-voice essay. The goal is to stretch\, to surprise ourselves\, to experiment with our voices and to explore territory outside of our poetry. Readings and prompts will be provided before each session\, with the aim of creating rough drafts of each kind of lyric essay. \nWorkshop Dates & Cost\nMarch 7\, 14\, and 21\, 2027\, 12:00-1:00 PM  \n$108—standard registration\n$87—18% discounted registration for Yetzirah Members (you can become a member here) \n*As we want our offerings to be accessible to all\, there is a pay-what-you-can option if this pricing is a hardship. No one will be turned away for lack of funds\, but please contact Program Coordinator Kyra Lisse at klisse@yetzirahpoets.org if you would like a sliding-scale ticket. \nAbout Charlotte\nCharlotte Friedman is a poet\, author\, translator\, and teacher. Her poetry has been published\, most recently\, in journals such as The Branches: A Journal of Literature and Philosophy\, Stoneboat Literary Journal and Quartet Journal. She is the author of a memoir\, I Never Asked for a Blessing\, and two chapbooks. Her translations of Mayan Ch’ol poetry (with Carol Rose Little) have appeared in World Literature Today\, Asymptote\, The Arkansas International and numerous other journals. Charlotte taught Introduction to Narrative Medicine at Barnard College\, Columbia University for many years and facilitated workshops in hospitals in New York City and Jerusalem. She is the author of The Girl Pages: A Handbook of the Best Resources for Strong\, Confident Creative Girls (Hyperion) and From Lightning’s Strike: Poems by Juana Karen Peñate\, translated from Ch’ol by Carol Rose Little and Charlotte Friedman (Mayapple Press). Raised in Seattle\, she lives in Princeton\, New Jersey\, and serves on Yetzirah’s Senior Partners Council and Lilith Magazine’s Board of Directors. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts and an MSc in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/x-for-poets-personal-essay-for-poets-experiments-in-hybrid-prose-forms-with-charlotte-friedman/
CATEGORIES:Generative Workshop,X for Poets,Yetzirah Workshops
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SUMMARY:Regional Chapter Event: NY: Fingerlakes Yetzirah Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Location TBD. \n\n\n\nContact Rabbi Suzanne Brody to register at sabrody@gmail.com or flxyetzirah@gmail.com.
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/regional-chapter-event-ny-finger-lakes-yetzirah-poetry-open-mic/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270323T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270413T203000
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SUMMARY:Critique Workshop: "Poems That Tell Bad News" with Rachel Hadas
DESCRIPTION:Register for this workshop here.\nYou can order Rachel’s book here\, with a percentage of every purchase going to support Yetzirah.\nA Jewish pessimist says\, “Things can’t get any worse.”\nA Jewish optimist says\, “Oh\, yes they can.” \nWe’re inundated with bad news—local\, global\, political; climate change\, war. There’s a widespread\, exhausting sense of dissolution\, of rage\, and of perpetual crisis that feels as if it’s been going on forever. At the same time\, each day’s news is a fresh assault. \nIn the face of all this\, what can poetry do? The sense of crisis is a human constant—but so is poetry. Poems can lament or rage\, mourn or pray\, narrate or describe. They can help us to understand our feelings and to share them with others. They can bear witness; in Carolyn Force’s phrase\, they’re against forgetting. Maybe they can do more—we hope to find out. \nIn this four-week critique workshop\, we’ll examine a few poems (I’ll provide a list) that tell or respond to bad news\, and we’ll workshop the poems students will bring in. I expect to learn more about the relation between the situations we are coping with and the art we love and try to practice. \nPlease note that this workshop is capped at 12 participants. \nWorkshop Dates & Cost\n**Register for this critique workshop here.** \n*You can order Rachel’s book here\, with a percentage of every purchase going to support Yetzirah. \nMarch 23 & 27\, April 6 & 13\, 2027\, 6:30-8:30 PM \n$288—standard registration\n$236—18% discounted registration for Yetzirah Members (you can become a member here) \n*As we want our offerings to be accessible to all\, there is a pay-what-you-can option if this pricing is a hardship.
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/critique-workshop-poems-that-tell-bad-news-with-rachel-hadas/
CATEGORIES:Critique Workshop,Yetzirah Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270404T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270404T183000
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SUMMARY:Reading Series: April 4: Ethel Rackin\, Nicky Beer\, and Wayne Koestenbaum
DESCRIPTION:Register for this reading here.\nYou can order books from our readers here\, with a percentage of every purchase going to support Yetzirah.\n  \n\n\nEthel Rackin is the author of four books of poetry: The Forever Notes (Parlor Press\, 2013); Go On (Parlor Press\, 2016)\, a National Jewish Book Award finalist; Evening (Furniture Press\, 2017); and In Time (Word Works Books\, 2025). She is also the author of the text Crafting Poems and Stories: A Guide to Creative Writing (Broadview Press\, 2022). Her collaborative lyric sequence\, “Soledad\,” written with Elizabeth Savage\, was awarded the Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred\, and another collaborative sequence\, “Silent e\,” is included in They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Collaborative Writing (Black Lawrence Press\, 2018). Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Colorado Review\, Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, Volt\, and other journals. She earned her MFA from Bard College and her PhD in English Literature from Princeton University. A MacDowell fellow\, she has taught at Penn State Brandywine\, Haverford College\, and Bucks County Community College in Pennsylvania\, where she is a professor of English. \nNicky Beer is a bi/queer writer\, and the author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes (Milkweed\, 2022)\, winner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. Her other books\, The Octopus Game (2015) and The Diminishing House (2010) both received the Colorado Book Award for Poetry. She has received honors from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, MacDowell\, the Poetry Foundation\, Ragdale\, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She is a professor at the University of Colorado Denver\, where she is a poetry editor for Copper Nickel. \nWayne Koestenbaum—poet\, critic\, novelist\, artist\, filmmaker\, performer—has published 24 books\, including Stubble Archipelago\, Ultramarine\, The Cheerful Scapegoat\, Figure It Out\, Camp Marmalade\, My 1980s & Other Essays\, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx\, Humiliation\, Hotel Theory\, Circus\, Andy Warhol\, Jackie Under My Skin\, and The Queen’s Throat (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award). His newest book\, a novel\, My Lover\, the Rabbi\, was published by FSG in 2026. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry\, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature\, and a Whiting Award. He is a Distinguished Professor of English\, French\, and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center. \n  \nAs we want our events to be accessible to all\, our tickets are offered free of charge. Yet if you’re able to donate—perhaps $18\, or some multiple of 18\, which in Jewish tradition signifies wishing long life and good luck to the recipient of the gift—all proceeds will go directly to supporting Yetzirah\, making more events like this possible. Yetzirah is a nonprofit organization\, and any gift you make is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by the law.
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/reading-series-april-4-ethel-rackin-wayne-koestenbaum-and-nicky-beer/
CATEGORIES:Yetzirah Reading Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270411T120000
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SUMMARY:[X] for Poets: "Documentary Film for Poets" with David Grubin
DESCRIPTION:Register for this workshop here.\n\n\n\nPoets use words that point us beyond words. Filmmakers work with images to reveal what lies beneath their surfaces. This will be our starting point for a generative workshop about film and poetry. Words are already one step removed from the world. How do filmmakers make us believe that a series of images at 24 frames a second is the world? By looking at the language of films\, we can begin to find new strategies for writing our poems. We’ll be asking: \n\n\n\nWhat can we learn about writing poems from films\, specifically documentary films which are wedded to reality? What techniques do filmmakers use to deepen an image? What can a poet learn from a cameraman? A film editor? What can a poet learn about the music of words from how a filmmaker works with musical instruments and song? What structural techniques do filmmakers have in their bag of tricks that poets might find useful? \n\n\n\nAlong the way\, we’ll write our own poems inspired by the craft of filmmaking. \n\n\n\nWorkshop Dates & Cost\n\n\n\nApril 11\, 2027\, 12:00-2:00 PM \n\n\n\n$72—standard registration$59—18% discounted registration for Yetzirah Members (you can become a member here) \n\n\n\n*As we want our offerings to be accessible to all\, there is a pay-what-you-can option if this pricing is a hardship. No one will be turned away for lack of funds\, but please contact Program Coordinator Kyra Lisse at klisse@yetzirahpoets.org if you would like a sliding-scale ticket. \n\n\n\nAbout David\n\n\n\nDavid Grubin is a director\, writer\, producer\, and cinematographer who has produced documentary films for decades\, ranging across history\, art\, science\, and poetry\, winning every award in the field of documentary television\, including two Alfred I. Dupont awards\, three George Foster Peabody prizes\, five Writers Guild prizes\, and ten Emmys. \n\n\n\nGrubin has received a Guggenheim Fellowship\, been a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College\, and is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from his alma mater\, Hamilton College. He has taught documentary film producing in Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program\, and has lectured on filmmaking across the country.​ A former chairman of the board of directors of the Film Forum\, he is currently a member of the Society of American Historians\, and sits on the board at Poets House. \n\n\n\nGrubin received an MFA in poetry from Pacific University in 2025. His work has appeared in Narrative\, the American Poetry Review\, Minyan\, and Gyroscope. He says\, “Tolerance for the disquieting limbo of uncertainty in the midst of chaos is at the center of my creative process.”
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/x-for-poets-documentary-film-for-poets-with-david-grubin/
CATEGORIES:Generative Workshop,X for Poets,Yetzirah Workshops
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SUMMARY:Regional Chapter Event: Philadelphia Yetzirah Salon with Poet Richard Chess
DESCRIPTION:For more information about these events\, contact momat927@gmail.com
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/salon-with-poet-richard-chess/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270502T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270502T150000
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SUMMARY:[X] for Poets: "Psychotherapy for Poets" with Galina Itskovich
DESCRIPTION:Register for this workshop here.\n\n\n\nPoetry as an art of self-exploration and writing can often resemble the therapeutic process: both require bravery and curiosity for deeply personal exploration. This workshop introduces key psychological ideas that illuminate how our temperaments\, personal and familial patterns\, and unconscious motivations shape creative work. Participants will examine how concepts such as archetypes\, defense mechanisms\, attachment styles\, narrative identity\, and the “use of self” can not only help us better understand ourselves but enrich lyric poetry and character-driven storytelling. \n\n\n\nThe workshop emphasizes writing as self-exploration and self-healing\, offering creative strategies for supporting oneself in the lifelong search for meaning. Time will be set aside for writing prompts designed to help participants listen to their own reactions\, track inner shifts\, and engage more fully with the psychological dimensions of their work. \n\n\n\nThrough discussion and examples\, we will explore how psychological processes appear on the page. Attendees will learn to identify latent motivations behind their poems\, deepen character development\, and place psychological insight directly into the context of their writing practice. \n\n\n\nWorkshop Dates & Cost\n\n\n\nMay 2\, 2027\, 12:00-3:00 PM \n\n\n\n$108—standard registration$87—18% discounted registration for Yetzirah Members (you can become a member here) \n\n\n\n*As we want our offerings to be accessible to all\, there is a pay-what-you-can option if this pricing is a hardship. No one will be turned away for lack of funds\, but please contact Program Coordinator Kyra Lisse at klisse@yetzirahpoets.org if you would like a sliding-scale ticket. \n\n\n\nAbout Galina\n\n\n\nGalina Itskovich\, a New York based poet\, writer\, translator\, psychotherapist and international lecturer\, holds a Master’s in Social Work from Hunter College (New York). In addition to full time practice\, she writes poetry\, prose and non-fiction\, including but not limited to American Jewish experience of former Soviet Jews. Her poetry recently appeared in Nashville Review\, Poet Lore\, Asymptote\, EastWest Literary Forum\, Turkoslavia and elsewhere\, as well as in Russophone journals. She authored one poetry book. Her latest book of travel prose\, My Favorite Triangle\, follows her trips to Latin America while exploring human affinity to the road and travels—bringing together fun facts\, clinical insight\, and literary craft. War Diary of a Desperate Psychotherapist\, a non-fiction about emotional support during the Ukrainian war is coming out from the publishing house of Кharkiv Human Rights Group. She authored and co-authored many professional articles\, among them “Use of the Heroic Journey Narrative in the Diagnostic Interview and Treatment”. \n\n\n\nGalina Itskovich serves on the editorial boards of two literary journals\, Slovo/Word and Emigrant’s Lyre. She is the director of the Refugee Support Program at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC) in New York. Her work has been covered by major U.S. media outlets\, including The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, and PsychologyToday.com.
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/x-for-poets-psychotherapy-for-poets-with-galina-itskovich/
CATEGORIES:Generative Workshop,X for Poets,Yetzirah Workshops
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SUMMARY:[X] for Poets: "Visual Art for Poets" with Naomie Kremer
DESCRIPTION:Register for this workshop here.\nWhile words convey meaning\, they are also visual\, musical\, and physical. Poetry is not only something we read and write—it is something we perceive\, something that has a shape on the page. Yet the embodiment of language is often lost\, and the art we make can begin to feel stagnant. Reconnecting words with their form offers a path through which our practice can be enriched and revitalized. \nIn my practice as a visual artist\, I’m interested in the cross-pollination between different media: drawing with words; pairing video art with music; animating poetry; projecting video on paintings. Ideas emerge from unexpected places and flow into hidden crevices. The best work often materializes when I’ve surprised myself into new ways of seeing. \nWe’ll begin by exploring artists who incorporate language in their visual work and poets who use a visual approach to deepen the impact of words. Then we’ll get our hands dirty—or not—with simple materials (and our own words). We’ll embark on a series of exercises designed to liberate us from habit\, open new possibilities for making and thinking\, spark future explorations\, and invite us into a practice that celebrates accident and surprise as fertile ground for discovery. \nWorkshop Dates & Cost\nMay 9\, 2027\, 12:00-2:00 PM \n$72—standard registration\n$59—18% discounted registration for Yetzirah Members (you can become a member here) \n*As we want our offerings to be accessible to all\, there is a pay-what-you-can option if this pricing is a hardship. Please contact Kyra Lisse at klisse@yetzirahpoets.org for a sliding scale option. \nAbout Naomie\nNaomie Kremer‘s work is in many private and public collections\, including the Whitney Museum of American Art\, The Berkeley Art Museum\, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco\, and the US Embassy in Beijing\, China. Kremer has created video-based set designs including The Secret Garden\, with San Francisco Opera; the Berkeley Opera production of Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók; Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner; Alcina\, by George F. Handel performed by Les Talent Lyriques in the Crusaders Courtyard in Acre\, Israel; Song of the Earth\, by Gustav Mahler\, performed at the Marseille Opera House; and Light Moves\, with Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. Her short films include In His Own Words\, with ShadowLight Productions based on Marc Chagall’s autobiography; In the Beginning was Desire\, with David Grubin Productions\, based on interviews with Dr. Avivah Zornberg; and The Alma Enigma\, about Alma Mahler\, screened in Marseille\, France\, during Manifesta 13. \nGrounded in observation\, Kremer’s work draws upon architecture\, landscape\, the human figure\, language\, and the visual structures of written communication. Her paintings often incorporate fragments of text\, letterforms\, and gestural marks that hover between writing and image\, reflecting a longstanding interest in the relationship between language\, memory\, identity\, and embodied experience. Music\, literature\, poetry\, art history\, and cultural traditions have all served as important sources for her work.
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/x-for-poets-visual-art-for-poets-with-naomie-kremer-2/
LOCATION:Yetzirah Workshops
CATEGORIES:Generative Workshop,X for Poets,Yetzirah Workshops
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