Poetry Archives – Jewish Currents

There Is Hope

August 30, 2019Natalie Eilbert

“Men engineered a line over water to connect / two futures.”

CHAPTER XXII

May 31, 2019Chase Berggrun

In an erasure poem from Bram Stoker's Dracula, a trans poet confronts the book's disdain for femininity.

Six Lines

May 13, 2019Aaron Zeitlin

A mournful post-war poem by Aaron Zeitlin, translated by Miranda Cooper.

Arrangement

April 22, 2019Jonathan Dubow

"The others say, The oldest hatred I have felt is of loved ones. / The others then can welcome the warmongers to a peaceful home."

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.

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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.