Poetry & Fiction
We have maintained a fine record of published poetry in our print issue, selected by poetry editor Joshua Weiner, but in recent years have not been able to spare the space for fiction. With this new web magazine, we have room for fiction, and are seeking a fiction editor who shares Tikkun’s worldview and is able to take full responsibility for selecting, editing, copy-editing, proofing, and posting fiction on this page. Contact Rabbi Lerner to apply. Please submit poetry and fiction via our online submissions site.
Poetry
A Brief History of the Number Two
by Sarah Browning
An online-only poem from Tikkun's web magazine.
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Fiction
Feral
by Deena Metzger
Climbing the tree had not been a thoughtless or impetuous action. The girl had taken a Jew’s harp, a handful of dried cranberries, a scrap of blue leather, feathers, a vial of silver and turquoise beads, a needle, some thread, other secret objects, some sacred, all carefully balanced in the lap of an oversized T-shirt that the girl turned alternately into a desk, a knapsack, a handkerchief for blowing her nose, while another T-shirt became a bandanna, a snood, and a white banner that declared most adamantly: “I will not surrender.”
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Fiction
The False Bride
by Racelle Rosett
Outside of Simon’s office, the hum of angels’ wings moved the air like an evening breeze. The pair, one young and one old -- ageless really -- but one wise, one unknowing, innocent, rested on the air and waited.
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Poetry
C.K. Williams Receives the Tikkun Award
by Tikkun Staff
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams reads "Tar" and "The Day Continues Lovely."
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Fiction
Tales of Morality and Meaning in an Age of Global Warming
by Roger Gottlieb
Some years ago I met a man who, over a single cup of ginger-mint tea, shook my deepest assumptions about the process of moral conversation. His name was Samuel Prana.
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Poetry
Devotion: Futurismo
by Bruce Smith
A poem in the Spring 2011 issue of Tikkun.
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Humor
Heaven’s Snake
by Josh Kornbluth
“Is the cornsnake Jewish?” This was a tough question to answer. I was visiting with the first-grade class taught by my then-girlfriend, who had introduced me to her students as “Farmer Josh” -- and then thrust a large-ish cornsnake into my less-than-willing hands.
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Poetry
Snowbound
by David Danoff
A poem in the Winter 2011 issue of Tikkun.
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Poetry
Villanelle: Tikkun Olam
by Jacqueline Osherow
A poem from our Winter 2011 issue.
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Poetry
Kavanah
by Marge Piercy
A poem from our Winter 2011 issue.
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