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Welcome to Yetzirah’s Database of Jewish Poets. We’re happy you’re here, adding a profile for yourself or for a Jewish poet you admire who is not able to add a profile on their own.

As you continue, please know the information you provide in the text fields will appear on the public profile page, as will the subject matter categories you select as relevant to your work.

Demographic information such as your denomination, race, sexuality, etc. (any or all of which you should feel free to leave blank) will not appear on your public profile. Instead, this information will allow database users to search for and filter poets’ profiles by these categories, which we hope will be especially useful for scholars, teachers, and event organizers.

When you submit this form, it will be marked for review by the Yetzirah team. Once it’s approved, your author profile will be visible on the site (this make take up to a month).

And we ask that you only request an update to your profile if you’ve published a new full-length collection.

Please direct any questions to Rina Shamilov, rshamilov@yetzirahpoets.org

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Enter your name of publication if it differs from your legal name, or your name in your given language (the database will be searchable in multiple languages)

Birth Year (and, if applicable, year of death). Format examples "b. 1970" or "1930-1999". And please be aware this will appear on your bio if you include it.

Please choose a city, state/province, and country. If your location isn't available in the list, you may manually type it in the field below.

Use this is your current location is not available in the above list.

Please choose a city, state/province, and country. If your birth location isn't available in the list, you may manually type it in the field below.

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Poet Bio in Third Person (when choosing what to include, think of this more as an encyclopedia entry than an up-to-the-minute reader's bio):

List of Published Books – Title (Press, Year), Please List Most Recent First. Format Example: "A Beautiful Book (Poetry Press, 2001)" And if there are books in multiple genres, please separate them by genre (poetry, prose, literary criticism, translations, edited works, etc.)

Current Job Title / Organization (If Applicable):

Link to 1-3 poem(s) online you feel is/are representative of your work. Format: Journal, "Poem Title"--then please include the link.

If available, one link to a video and/or audio of you reading your poems (with or without explicitly Jewish content):

Education Keywords (Undergraduate Institution, Graduate Institution/s)

If you are submitting this profile on behalf of someone else, please put your name here.

Subject matter(s) explored in your writing (select all that apply):

The following questions are for the creation of keywords associated with you and your work to help make the database more searchable. Please feel free to skip any sections you are not comfortable answering. Please do not check anything for "Yetzirah Affiliation" as that will be filled in by Yetzirah admin. Your answers will not be visible on your public profile.

Please select all the genres in which you publish:

Languages from which you translate, with the names of the poets translated (if applicable):

Would you be willing to help Yetzirah with:

Do you have friends or colleagues you think might be interested in learning about Yetzirah and being included in this database? If so, please share their names and email addresses below.

To complete your listing in the Yetzirah database, please upload the author’s photo (at least 300 DPI)

Leave empty if the image is purely decorative.

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Before hitting “Update,” which will submit your form, please take a moment to look back carefully over your profile. If you have any questions, please contact Yetzirah at newsletter@yetzirahpoets.org.

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