It's The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the September 11th Attacks and It's Erev Rosh Hashanah
If you are celebrating, Shana Tovah! I hope we all get the sweet and fulfilling and meaningful and just and peaceful year that we all deserve.
Poet • Essayist • Educator • Consultant
Take refuge on this path
the page gives you to roam.
Hunker down against
the shadow cast by prayer
and build yourself a line
that won’t efface itself.
Language is not wine.
You cannot pour it freely.
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Learning To Love The Questions: Do All Writers Write with a Feminine Soul?
My body, in other words, physically rejects the idea that I write as anyone other than the man I am or that my experience as a man is therefore any less inclusive of everything you mean when you use the phrase “feminine soul.”
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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.
Four by Four #58
Four Things To Read, Four Things To See, Four Things To Listen To, and Four Things About Me
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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
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...
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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,”
It All Connects
Publication News and Some Thoughts on Patience and Process
Dear Friends,
I am very excited to share with you that an essay it took me nearly thirty years to
Standing With Ukraine Also Means Paying Attention To Its Larger Context
Dear Friends,
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine casts its long shadow over everything I do these days, even the
I have been (once again) thinking about antisemitism...
Dear Friends,
I want to share with you something I wrote recently about antisemitism–and not only because Election Day