Rodger Kamenetz
By Rodger Kamenetz
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The Schmooze Hearing News From the Temple Mount in Salt Lake City
Each Thursday, The Arty Semite features excerpts and reviews of the best contemporary Jewish poetry. This week, Rodger Kamenetz introduces “Hearing News From the Temple Mount in Salt Lake City” by Jacqueline Osherow. This piece originally appeared on June 1, 2001, as part of the Forward’s Psalm 151 series. It is being published here online…
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The Schmooze Chocolate Labs for the Lord
Each Thursday, The Arty Semite features excerpts and reviews of the best contemporary Jewish poetry. This week, Rodger Kamenetz introduces “Third Temple,” by Richard Chess. This piece originally appeared on January 5, 2001, as part of the Forward’s Psalm 151 series. It is being published here online for the first time. Richard Chess is a…
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Opinion Cry Out for the Fate of the Tibetan People
Next month at Seder, we will recall how Egypt made the lives of the Children of Israel “bitter.” We will remember how “the children of Israel groaned… and cried out” and that “God heard their moaning.” But this week we heard the groaning of the Tibetan people. The Tibetans have no Seder, but they commemorate…
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Culture In the Presence of Genius
New and Selected Poems (1965-2006) By David Shapiro The Overlook Press, 240 pages, $21.95. What is there to say? Prodigious, brilliant, David Shapiro has lived in many worlds of art, including music and painting. Shapiro is also the author of four books of criticism: on poet John Ashbery, and on artists Jim Dine, Jasper Johns…
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Culture PSALM 151
What Men Want The talk between them at the table, three pairs of men and women, husbands and wives, was of men and women, husbands and wives, and therefore edgy, so he began his contribution to it cautiously: an anecdote of several years before, he thought perhaps his wife recalled — about the way that…
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Culture PSALM 151
Hapax Legomena I covered you and cover you I covet you and uncover you My dream intent to discover you seems clear as a snowflake dresses you and undresses you an orange hand on your breast unless it’s you a purple simple hand on your hand is less than you you covered and recovered you…
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