Yetzirah Reading Series
Held online on Sundays, 5-6:30 p.m. ET, our annual reading series celebrates the publication of recently released collections and anthologies, promoting the work of both emerging and established Jewish poets.
Each reading will take its theme from the Jewish calendar, with topics including self-reflection, wildness, and liberation.
Yetzirah also partners with Jewish organizations to amplify the diversity of voices in contemporary Jewish poetry, translation, and scholarship.

Fall 2023
September 10 (Self-Reflection) Hilda Raz, Grace Schulman, Alan Shapiro
October 22 (Poet-Translators) Boris Dralyuk, Daniel Kraft, Mira Rosenthal
November 12 (Shadow/Light) Maya Bernstein, Jacqueline Osherow, Yehoshua November
Spring 2024
January 14 (Trees/Nature) Susan Aizenberg, Lauren Camp, Taije Silverman
March 10 (Wildness) Jake Marmer, Lisa Richter, Leslie Ullman
April 14 (Liberation/Freedom) Matthew Lippman, Rachel Mennies, Nomi Stone
Previous Seasons
Fall 2022
September 11 (Self-Reflection) Dan Alter, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Joy Ladin, Sean Singer
October 9 (Harvest/Fruition/Fullness) Judith Baumel, David Ebenbach, Erika Meitner, Victoria Redel
November 13 (101 Jewish Poems for the New Millennium anthology event) Nancy Naomi Carlson & Matthew Silverman (editors), Jeffrey Levine, Alan Michael Parker, Amy Small-McKinney, Katherine Smith
Spring 2023
January 15 (Trees/Nature) Rebecca Aronson, Rachel Hadas, Maya Pindyck
February 12 (Wildness) Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Rodger Kamenetz, Jason Schneiderman
March 19 (A Translation Event, co-sponsored by the Yiddish Book Center) Featuring Jennifer Kronovet & Aviya Kushner, with Merle Bachman & Maia Evrona
April 9 (Liberation/Freedom) Janlori Goldman, Dana Levin, Gail Newman, Yerra Sugarman