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poetry

Laurel Benjamin – Three Poems

July 22, 2024July 22, 2024 admin 6 mins read

  In the Middle    1.   Ghosts dreamed in the space between my parents.  I read the reflection in their longing (though I didn’t […]

poetry, translation

Mildred Faintly – ‘Brest-Litovsk’: A Translation from the Yiddish of Anna Margolin (Lider, 1917)

July 7, 2024July 7, 2024 admin 4 mins read

  Brest-Litovsk 1.   The old city, the little gray city astride the Mukhovets river, astride the borders of Russia and Poland both, its nationality […]

poetry

Anne Myles – Three Poems

June 30, 2024June 30, 2024 admin 3 mins read

  Tribe   I’m driving towards Santa Fe with my old friend. Around us a landscape as alien as the moon. Sandy ground with tumbleweed […]

poetry

Catherine Gonick – Two Poems

June 23, 2024June 23, 2024 admin 2 mins read

  Newcomers   The only Jews in town, my father’s family was respected. The churchgoers in Red Oak, Iowa considered them People of the Book […]

poetry

Paul Rabinowitz – Three Poems

June 17, 2024June 18, 2024 admin 3 mins read

  Diaspores   A broken clothesline leans against its shadow   nothing to hang memories on   through the stillness of the desert landscape I […]

poetry

Lonnie Monka – Three Poems

June 9, 2024June 9, 2024 admin 6 mins read

  אמא   with an extended index-finger tracing circles in the air you said: “the end must be the beginning it’s all a big loop” lounging […]

poetry

Maxim D. Shrayer – Three Poems

April 22, 2024September 17, 2024 admin 3 mins read

  Last Will and Testament Thomas Mann has returned to the city of Lübeck.  The municipal elders have gathered to welcome him home. He‘s old. […]

poetry

Carol Dorf – Four Poems

April 22, 2024June 4, 2024 admin 8 mins read

  On A Crowded Bus             after Ryzard Krynicki A bus from El Paso is nothing like a train from Friedrichstraße station with its memorial to the children […]

poetry

Claire L. Frankel – ‘Reapers’

April 15, 2024June 4, 2024 admin 2 mins read

  The seasons roll by first flowers and scent then tiny apples –  Bigger and bigger – 25 years in the blink of an eye. […]

poetry

Julie Brandon – ‘A Covenant Remembered’

April 7, 2024June 4, 2024 admin 1 min read

  Am I ready to go Somehow bondage seems easier than following a man I’ve never met for a God I don’t remember Multitudes pull […]

poetry

Ivan de Monbrison – ‘Two Poems about Childhood’

March 25, 2024June 4, 2024 admin 2 mins read

  1. so little depth in this skull crater of bones a hole hiding in it like inside a hollow tooth strange cavity  it could […]

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