At some point in your life, you will likely hear the maxim that the personal is political.
Whether you prefer your poems timely or unbound from any particular political moment, we’ve picked some that will refresh your sense of syntax.
What makes a Jewish American poet? Eminent critic Stephen Burt sifts through a new Bloomsbury anthology and a new collection by Geoffrey Hartman to find a slew of answers.
Adrienne Rich has died at 82, stilling a voice who provided invaluable insight into motherhood, feminism, sexual politics and Jewish identity.
The Spring 2011 issue of Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal is expected to be the last for the publication, which has been alive and rabble-rousing for 21 years. The journal began back when Adrienne Rich, Elly Bulkin and Ruth Atkin, members of the Feminist Task Force of the New Jewish Agenda, proposed expanding the Task Force’s newsletter into a journal. The result was Bridges, whose stated mission is to imbue Judaism with the values of the feminist and LGBT movements. Since then, Bridges has become a place for readers to engage with their activist and Jewish identities.
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