Meet The Poets
Meet the poets who answered our Four Questions this Pesach:
ADEENA KARASICK, an internationally acclaimed award-winning poet and media artist, is a professor of global literature at St. John’s University, in New York.
MATTHUE ROTH’S poetry has appeared everywhere from Australian subways to HBO. He’s the co-creator of the animated Torah series at G-dcast.com.
KAREN ALKALAY-GUT began her publishing career with the Forward at the age of 10. Born in London, she grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and in 1972 she moved to Israel, where she teaches at Tel Aviv University. Her sixth volume of poems in Hebrew translation will appear after Passover.
MAYA PINDYCK grew up in Newton, Mass., and Tel Aviv. She wrote the collection “Friend Among Stones” (New Rivers Press, 2009). Her “Locket, Master” won a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship award in 2006.
ALMOG BEHAR lives in Jerusalem. He won the Haaretz Short Story Competition for his “Ana Min Al-Yahoud” (“I Am One of the Jews”), which was published in the well-known journal Dar Al Hilal in Cairo and generated considerable interest in the Arab world. Behar has received the Bernstein Prize for Poetry (2010) and the Prime Minister’s Prize (2010).
EMMANUEL MOSES was born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1959. He spent 17 years in Israel, but now lives and works in Paris. Poet, novelist and translator, he has published 15 books and translated from English, Hebrew and German. Among his awards are the Nelly-Sachs Prize for translation, the Max-Jacob Prize for poetry and the Ploquin-Caunan Academie Française prize.
STANLEY MOSS was born in New York City in 1925. He is the editor and publisher of Sheep Meadow Press, a not-for-profit press devoted to poetry. He will soon publish his book “God Breaketh Not All Men’s Hearts Alike: New & Later Collected Poems” with Seven Stories Press.
The Forward is free to read, but it isn’t free to produce

I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward.
Now more than ever, American Jews need independent news they can trust, with reporting driven by truth, not ideology. We serve you, not any ideological agenda.
At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back, the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse.
This is a great time to support independent Jewish journalism you rely on. Make a gift today!
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO
Support our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.
Most Popular
- 1
Opinion The dangerous Nazi legend behind Trump’s ruthless grab for power
- 2
Opinion I first met Netanyahu in 1988. Here’s how he became the most destructive leader in Israel’s history.
- 3
Opinion Yes, the attack on Gov. Shapiro was antisemitic. Here’s what the left should learn from it
- 4
News Who is Alan Garber, the Jewish Harvard president who stood up to Trump over antisemitism?
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Trump mandates universities to report foreign funding, a demand of pro-Israel groups
-
Fast Forward Exclusive: Trump nominee apologizes for praising Nazi sympathizer while awaiting Senate confirmation hearing
-
Fast Forward Global antisemitism has declined since Oct. 7, Tel Aviv University says
-
Yiddish World VIDEO: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemoration highlights women ghetto fighters
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
Republish This Story
Please read before republishing
We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines.
You must comply with the following:
- Credit the Forward
- Retain our pixel
- Preserve our canonical link in Google search
- Add a noindex tag in Google search
See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs.
To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. It does not include images; to avoid copyright violations, you must add them manually, following our guidelines. Please email us at [email protected], subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up.