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Poetry

Purim-Shpiel

March 21, 2019Maia Evrona

They say she was wicked and vain, that perhaps she was ugly and ill, with no beauty to show. They say she may not have been a woman at all. And had she danced nude for the king one knows what one would say:that this queen had no shame, she deserved to be cast away.To […]

Poetry

Taxi Poems

February 21, 2019Sean Singer

Four poems from the manuscript Today in the Taxi.

Poetry

Chain Migration

January 17, 2019Joshua Gottlieb-Miller

A poetic meditation on migratory inheritances.

Poetry

Lot’s Wife Speaks

January 2, 2019Jessica Kirzane

Laura Eve Engel’s debut poetry collection, Things That Go, uses the biblical story to contemplate the act of looking and its ethics in an age of clickable tragedy.

Poetry

Two Poems From ‘Comfort’

December 11, 2018Sarah Heady

"they say she raised peacocks and grapes against all advice / —women inherit the worst / slices of property"

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The pinko commie dyke hires

November 21, 2018Julie R. Enszer

From Michigan she knows laid off / … she imagines wherever people make appliances / the work breaks their bodies

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Awoken again by the neighbor’s child screaming

August 29, 2018Leah Falk

“When no one comes, / he and I keep vigil / in the treeless night, / sharing a wall he builds / with his voice”

Poetry

The Loss of Little Boy

August 6, 2018Philip Fried

A poet reflects on the language of war and loss on the 73rd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.

Poetry

The Miami Beach Series, 1982

July 16, 2018Paul Buhle

Poems by historian Paul Buhle, drawn from interviews with the “Jewish Old Left” in Miami Beach.

Poetry

Let The Father Give

June 19, 2018Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

A poet reflects on the terror and tenderness of her son's first bath in light of family separations at the border.

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Strange Tales

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Taxi Poems

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