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In The Town That Taught Me How To Live Like Prey

In The Town That Taught Me How To Live Like Prey

I may not look over my shoulder when I walk down the street the way I did back then, but there are definitely places in both this country and out in the world at large where I wonder how safe I would be as a Jew who insisted on being visible as a Jew.
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Four by Four #58

Four by Four #58

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Rereading Alicia Ostriker’s Stealing The Language

Rereading Alicia Ostriker’s Stealing The Language

I could not have articulated it this way back then, but I felt straitjacketed by much of the male poetic tradition in which I was being educated and in which I understood I would be expected to write
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Learning To Love The Questions: To Write Is To Sit In Confrontation With Yourself

Learning To Love The Questions: To Write Is To Sit In Confrontation With Yourself

Wrestling with yourself like that, if you’re honest about it, is to court what can be a very frightening vulnerability, because it means by definition having the audacity to lay claim to a readership’s attention...
Like Domestic Violence, Antisemitism Has Also Been A Thread Running Through My Life

Like Domestic Violence, Antisemitism Has Also Been A Thread Running Through My Life

“We’re building an oven in my basement,” the ringleader smiled. “When it’s finished, remember, we know where you live,”
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