2025–2026
Reading Series
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.
Yetzirah also partners with Jewish organizations to amplify the diversity of voices in contemporary Jewish poetry, translation, and scholarship.
Fall 2025
First Fall Reading
September 7: Shira Dentz, Julie Carr, & Phillis Levin
Second Fall Reading
October 5: Ayelet Amittay, Leslie Contreras Schwartz, & David Lehman
Third Fall Reading
November 9: Daniela Naomi Molnar, Joanna Fuhrman, Sabrina Orah Mark
Spring 2026
First Spring Reading
January 11: Luisa Muradyan, Lily Brown, & Philip Schultz
Second Spring Reading
February 8: Ori Fienberg, Robyn Schiff, & Martha Rhodes
Third Spring Reading
March 15: Rachel Abramowitz, Marcela Sulak, & Charles Bernstein
Meet our Hosts & Curators
Yerra Sugarman, Co-Curator & Host
About
Yerra Sugarman’s most recent book of poems Aunt Bird (Four Way Books), won the American Book Fest’s 2022 Best Book Award for General Poetry, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and for the New England Poetry Club’s Motton Book Prize. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, among other honors. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Nation, New England Review and elsewhere. She is an American poet, essayist, and teacher, living in New York City. The daughter of Holocaust survivors, she grew up in a community of Holocaust survivors in Toronto. She serves as Secretary of Yetzirah’s Board of Directors.
Dan Rosenberg, Co-Curator & Host
About
Joanna Chen, International Event Curator & Host
About
Joanna 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 also 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. Joanna was a Fellow at the 2024 Yetzirah Jewish Poetry Conference.
Previous Seasons
2024–2025
2023–2024
2022–2023
Self-Reflection
Dan Alter, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Joy Ladin, and Sean Singer
Harvest/ Fruition/ Fullness
October 9, 2022 Judith Baumel, David Ebenbach, Erika Meitner, Victoria Redel
101 Jewish Poets
for the New Millenium Anthology event
November 13, 2022 Nancy Naomi Carlson & Matthew Silverman (editors), Jeffrey Levine, Alan Michael Parker, Amy Small-McKinney, Katherine Smith
Liberation/
Freedom
Janlori Goldman, Dana Levin, Gail Newman, & Yerra Sugarman
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