Poetry Archives – Jewish Currents

Poetry

Provisions #5: “tarnished, / problematic, and certainly uneven—a we”

May 29, 2020 Saretta Morgan , Samuel Ace, Carolina Ebeid

Meditations in a crisis on writing by René Ménil, Ari Banias, and Andrea Rexilius.

Poetry

[unfinished draft]

May 22, 2020 Rachel Mennies

“when fucking, I frequently mistake cries of pleasure for cries of faith”

Poetry

Provisions #4: “here in a foreign place, my thoughts of you sharpen”

May 15, 2020 Wendy Xu , Kaveh Akbar, Ashon T. Crawley

Meditations in a crisis on poems by Wang Wei, Enheduanna, and Ross Gay.

Poetry

Far Rockaway

May 8, 2020 Judith Harris

“The war was not over / in my grandmother’s mind.”

Poetry

Provisions #3: “Pain was everywhere. Sprang out of everything”

May 1, 2020 Wayne Koestenbaum , Hanif Abdurraqib, Lara Mimosa Montes

Meditations in a crisis on poems by Else Lasker-Schüler, beyza ozer, and Gregg Bordowitz.

Poetry

Middle Life Money

April 24, 2020 Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

“I cannot outstare the bill faces”

Poetry

Provisions #2: “The world begins at a kitchen table.”

April 17, 2020 Cameron Awkward-Rich , Ariana Katz, Claire Schwartz

Meditations in a crisis on poems by Donika Kelly, Joy Harjo, and Nâzim Hikmet.

Poetry

of return

April 10, 2020 Max Czollek

“someone’s lived here before. it takes hours to wipe his outlook off the windows.”

Poetry

Provisions #1: “languages I didn’t know I wanted to know”

April 3, 2020 Momtaza Mehri , Chase Berggrun, Essy Stone

Meditations in a crisis on poems by Solmaz Sharif, Mary Karr, and June Jordan.

Poetry

Watching the Twilight

March 27, 2020 Choi Seung-ja

“Painstakingly, the Earth spins, and as it does, / I look out into the world inside an incubator”

The Capitalist’s Kibbutz

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The Prophet of Mt. Mitchell

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Category Archives: Poetry

Poetry

Provisions #5: “tarnished, / problematic, and certainly uneven—a we”

Poetry

[unfinished draft]

Poetry

Provisions #4: “here in a foreign place, my thoughts of you sharpen”

Poetry

Far Rockaway

Poetry

Provisions #3: “Pain was everywhere. Sprang out of everything”

Poetry

Middle Life Money

Poetry

Provisions #2: “The world begins at a kitchen table.”

Poetry

of return

Poetry

Provisions #1: “languages I didn’t know I wanted to know”

Poetry

Watching the Twilight

Further Reading

The Capitalist’s Kibbutz

A New Cold War Threatens Chinese Americans

The Yiddishist Neocon

The Prophet of Mt. Mitchell

Amazon Workers Say Warehouse Health Precautions Are Insufficient

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