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SUMMARY:"Songs of the Grass: Exploring Jewish Ecopoetry" with Hila Ratzabi
DESCRIPTION:“Each and every grass has a song” – Rebbe Nachman of Bratslav \n\n\n\nThe Jewish environmental movement has sought to excavate and breathe new life into ancient texts that call us to right relationship with this fragile and holy earth. Jewish poets vividly describe the human encounter with plants\, animals\, and the elements where they often find intimations of the Divine or cause for protest on behalf of the non-human world. Together we’ll read poetry and other Jewish writings that will inspire our own experiments with ecopoetry. Some poets we will read include Marge Piercy\, Muriel Rukeyser\, Alicia Ostriker\, Adrienne Rich\, Denise Levertov\, Stanley Moss\, Stuart Kestenbaum\, Phillip Levine\, Mónica Gomery\, and more! We’ll engage in writing exercises\, some of which will take us outside to our local environments to allow us to listen to\, and translate\, the voices of the earth. You will come away with a deepened appreciation for Jewish wisdom on the environment and a number of poem drafts that will help you envision your personal Torah of the earth. \n\n\n\n“Songs of the Grass: Exploring Jewish Ecopoetry was a powerful class for me to take when I was working on a project related to climate justice and responding with bravery to emotions around climate change. Looking at these issues through a Jewish lens added depth to my writing and thinking. Hila created a thoughtful and engaged community in the course\, and sessions included rich discussion of source texts followed by writing exercises that were both generative and nourishing.”– Elisa McCool\, previous participant in Songs of the Grass \n\n\n\nWorkshop Dates & Cost\n\n\n\n$126—standard registration$90—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. \n\n\n\nAbout Hila\n\n\n\nHila Ratzabi’s first full-length book of poetry\, There Are Still Woods (June Road Press\, 2022)\, won a 2023 gold Nautilus Award and was a finalist for a National Indie Excellence Award. She was a finalist for the North American Review’s 2021 Terry Tempest Williams Prize in Creative Nonfiction\, for the Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Prize (2019)\, and for the Fifth Annual Narrative Magazine Poetry Contest (2013). She is the author of a poetry chapbook\, The Apparatus of Visible Things (2009). Her poetry has been published in Narrative\, Linebreak\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, The Adroit Journal\, and other journals\, and in The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry and Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. She has received scholarships and fellowships to the Willapa Bay AiR residency\, the Vermont Studio Center\, the Crater Lake National Park residency\, and the Arctic Circle Residency. Ratzabi is the former editor-in-chief and poetry editor of Storyscape and holds an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. She was director of virtual content & programs at Ritualwell.org (2015–2023). Ratzabi is currently director of communications at North Shore Congregation Israel in Glencoe\, IL. She lives in Oak Park\, IL\, with her husband and two children. Visit Hila’s profile in our Discover Jewish Poets database.
URL:https://yetzirahpoets.org/event/songs-of-the-grass-exploring-jewish-ecopoetry-with-hila-ratzabi/
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SUMMARY:"Translating Worlds\, Exploring Words" with Joanna Chen
DESCRIPTION:“A translation can serve as a lens into the underground life of another culture”– Cynthia Ozick  \n\n\n\nLiterary translation involves a deep reading of words; it is the natural companion of both reading and writing. The art and practice of literary translation enriches and informs our own writing. It provides a unique perspective on words we thought we knew\, holding each one up to the light\, examining it and deepening its presence.   \n\n\n\nIn this generative workshop we will examine and explore translated poetry from Yiddish\, Hebrew and other languages\, opening doors to other worlds\, both past and present. \n\n\n\nTogether we will discuss what translation means to us and how to approach it. We will experiment with our own translations of poetry\, letting our love for language guide us. No prior experience necessary\, all welcome.  \n\n\n\nHandouts will be sent with the texts to be discussed. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWorkshop Dates & Cost\n\n\n\n$36—standard registration$30—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. \n\n\n\nAbout Joanna\n\n\n\nJoanna Chen’s full-length poetry translations include Less Like a Dove (Shearsman Books)\, Frayed Light (Wesleyan University Press\, finalist for The Jewish Book Award)\,and but first I call your name (Shearsman Books). She is also the translator of My Wild Garden (Penguin/Random House) and Shooting in America (forthcoming with Penguin\, winner of The Paper Brigade Award for New Israeli Fiction). Her work has been published in Asymptote\, Waxwing\, Mantis and La Piccioletta Barca\, among numerous others. Her poetry\, essays and interviews have been published in The Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Washington Monthly\, Lilith and Narratively\, among several others. She teaches literary translation at The Helicon School of Poetry in Tel Aviv.
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SUMMARY:“To See What Is Heard: Concretizing the Spiritual & the Abstract” with Yehoshua November
DESCRIPTION:In this generative workshop\, we will look at a Hasidic mystical text that explores the relationship between imagery and abstraction during the watershed moment when the Torah was received at Mount Sinai. Then\, taking our cue from Hasidic mysticism and contemporary poetry\, we will attempt to harness the dynamic interplay of imagery and abstraction as we work toward generating several new poems. \n\n\n\nWorkshop Dates & Cost\n\n\n\n$36—standard registration$30—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. \n\n\n\nAbout Yehoshua\n\n\n\nYehoshua November is the author of God’s Optimism (a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize)\, Two Worlds Exist (a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize)\, and The Concealment of Endless Light (Orison Books\, 2024). His work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine\, Harvard Divinity Bulletin\, The Sun\, VQR\, TriQuarterly\, and on National Public Radio and Poetry Unbound. November teaches creative writing at Rutgers University and Touro University and serves as mashpia\, spiritual mentor\, at Chabad of Teaneck. Visit Yehoshua’s profile in our Discover Jewish Poets database.
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