"Swaddled in sweet fiction / they will rise from the ground again / laughing like the cheaters they are." A new poem from Kim Roberts.
Arts & Cultural Critique
PROTECTION BY EINAR JONSSON
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"Your wings are institutions, and therefore / too slow. / They weigh you down." A new poem from Stephanie Burt.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Gazing
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"so now we [...] may nightly observe [...] the deft undoing of what we once / had thought would long endure." A new poem from Jon Swan.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Two Poems
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"And then there will be another election, / and then the takers of bribes will be shown the door, / or possibly fed to the dogs." Two new poems from Stephanie Burt.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Chuppah
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"This is / why every day I thank God / I was born a woman." A new poem from Julie R. Enszer.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Let’s Shoot
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In this powerful poem, Hilton Obenzinger uses dark humor to address our gun crisis. "So much to shoot and so little time/ Let’s shoot the small quiet wind . . ."
Poetry & Fiction
Things Made of Brass
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In this poem, Liz Marlow speaks to the fear of bullets killing our loved ones. "I know the unlikeliness / of a bullet / shot into the air / killing / my children . . . "
Jewish Wisdom
Venery: a Prayer
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Richard Michelson reflects on the Pittsburgh massacre: "An anguish of mothers / A coward of congressmen / A plague of Martyrs / A martyr of angels."
Arts & Cultural Critique
Shiv’ah
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J. David Cummings's poem calls for solidarity in grief: "he taught me that the grieving heart / speaks everywhere a single prayer."
Poetry & Fiction
My Mourner’s Kaddish, Recited with a Minyan of Ancestral Ghosts
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In this poem, Jay Eddy responds to the massacre of Jews at a Pittsburgh Temple: "
Fiction
CAMP HAPPINESS
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They were going to separate—she wanted to and he was done fighting her—but before that there was Dylan’s bar mitzvah, and before that was now: this weekend in the rolling hills beyond Oakland with similarly bereaved Jewish strangers.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Roth’s Enduring Commitment
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Summing up the life of Philip Roth is not easy, but Evan Brier tries by beginning at the end.
Reviews
Review of Ariel Dorfman’s Book “Darwin’s Ghosts”
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Deena Metzger reviews the novel "Darwin's Ghosts" by Ariel Dorfman, not quite a coming of age story or hero's journey, but a journey where a young boy must learn who he is outside of the superficial life to which he presumed he was entitled
Poetry & Fiction
Coywolf
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Hebrew, Lizavetta claimed, was the holiest and most beautiful language in the world. Alexey trusted her in most things, but he knew for a fact this couldn’t be so, because Lermontov had written his poems in Russian.