Poetry
Poetry
Two Poems
“My cells are radicalizing. I obscure them with a crown.”
Simon Crafts
December 13, 2019
Poetry
Matrilineage
“I guess I will always have to make room for the ancestral / or it will make itself a room in me”
Susannah Sharpless
November 15, 2019
Poetry
Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018
“The laws of the bomb and the laws of the armistice are the same”
Daniel Borzutzky
October 25, 2019
Poetry
The Goat
“This bleating was the twin / of my own sorrow. And I answered”
Umberto Saba
October 18, 2019
Poetry
Fatherhood, Insomnia, Imperial Tears
“To love a baby // is to restrain the urge to bury it / inside a wall”
Philip Metres
October 3, 2019
Poetry
Separation Wall
“We would like the babies not to find out about / the failures waiting for them.”
Naomi Shihab Nye
September 19, 2019
Poetry
There Is Hope
“Men engineered a line over water to connect / two futures.”
Natalie Eilbert
August 30, 2019
Poetry
CHAPTER XXII
In an erasure poem from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a trans poet confronts the book’s disdain for femininity.
Chase Berggrun
May 31, 2019
Poetry
Six Lines
A mournful post-war poem by Aaron Zeitlin, translated by Miranda Cooper.
Aaron Zeitlin
May 13, 2019
Poetry
Arrangement
“The others say, The oldest hatred I have felt is of loved ones. /
The others then can welcome the warmongers to a peaceful home.”
Jonathan Dubow
April 22, 2019
Poetry
Purim-Shpiel
Maia Evrona
March 21, 2019
Poetry
Taxi Poems
Four poems from the manuscript Today in the Taxi.
Sean Singer
February 21, 2019
Poetry
Chain Migration
A poetic meditation on migratory inheritances.
Joshua Gottlieb-Miller
January 17, 2019
Poetry
Lot’s Wife Speaks
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.
Jessica Kirzane
January 2, 2019
Poetry
Two Poems From ‘Comfort’
“they say she raised peacocks and grapes against all advice / —women inherit the worst / slices of property”
Sarah Heady
December 11, 2018
Poetry
The pinko commie dyke hires
From Michigan she knows laid off / … she imagines wherever people make appliances / the work breaks their bodies
Julie R. Enszer
November 21, 2018
Poetry
Awoken again by the neighbor’s child screaming
“When no one comes, / he and I keep vigil / in the treeless night, / sharing a wall he builds / with his voice”
Leah Falk
August 29, 2018
Poetry
The Loss of Little Boy
A poet reflects on the language of war and loss on the 73rd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
Philip Fried
August 6, 2018
Poetry
The Miami Beach Series, 1982
Poems by historian Paul Buhle, drawn from interviews with the “Jewish Old Left” in Miami Beach.
Paul Buhle
July 16, 2018
Poetry
Let The Father Give
A poet reflects on the terror and tenderness of her son’s first bath in light of family separations at the border.
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
June 19, 2018
Poetry
Poems: Black Hat & Proposal
My hat bobs gaily on her head, / incarnating her as a Hasidic woman / on the extreme edge / of gender confusion.
Robert Hirschfield
June 14, 2018
Poetry
Shehecheyanu at the Old Dolphinarium
New poetry from Julia Knobloch.
Julia Knobloch
May 29, 2018
