Four By Four #30
Four things to read, four things to see, four things to listen to, and four things about me
Richard Jeffrey Newman
A poet and essayist, I write about gender and sexuality, Jewish identity and culture, writing and translation. My goal? To make connections that matter. I also help other writers do the same.
Four By Four #29
Four things to read, four things to see, four things to listen to, and four things about me
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From Fletcher’s Field, by Derek Webster in @columba_poetry:
All these years, I have lived as if a thought
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Four By Four #28
Four things to read, four things to see, four things to listen to, and four things about me
Four By Four #27
Four things to read, four things to see, four things to listen to, and four things about me
Four By Four #26
Four things to read, four things to see, four things to listen to, and four things about me
T'shuvah
"These poems helped me see ways in which the mind, body, spirit and community…resonate[,] forming harmonies and dissonances that are instructive, discomforting, and ineluctable. In reading these poems, I felt myself returning to something I didn’t even know I’d strayed from." —Jason Schneiderman
Words For What Those Men Have Done
"[These] poems are alert to the possibility of redemption, not by transcending injury and sorrow, but by finding meaning there, and connection to others' suffering, and the bedrock truth of desire…" —Richard Hoffman
The Silence Of Men
"...exposes the violence of men toward men, and men toward women, and the tenderness also, the resounding tenderness. [Newman's] is an unremitting empathy, as uncommon as it is necessary." —Robin Behn
Four By Four #25
Four things to read, four things to see, four things to listen to, and four things about me
Four By Four #24
Four things to read, four things to see, four things to listen to, and four things about me