Eve and Lilith peered through the padlocked gates of the garden, now a restricted community. Eve glared at Lilith, “You told me it was easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission. Now look.” “That’s what I always do,” Lilith replied, aware that under the circumstances she sounded pretty lame. “Plus,” said Eve, “I think I’m…
● The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish Poetry Edited by Deborah Ager and M.E. Silverman Bloomsbury Academic, 272 pages, $120 ● THE EIGHTH DAY By Geoffrey Hartman Texas Tech University Press, 128 pages, $21.95 ‘What does it mean to be a Jewish American poet? Posed as baldly as that”— so wrote the poet and critic…
This poem’s “head” (first three lines) are attributed to Rabbi Menachem Nachum Twerski of Chernobyl (1730-1798).
This is our second feature of poetry written at KlezKanada Poetry Retreat. See the original feature here. Ezra Pound once stated that poets are the antennas of the race. At this year’s KlezKanada Poetry Retreat, which I was privileged to co-coordinate with Jake Marmer, poets composed alongside the timbres and textures of Yiddish music. Traveling…
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