Excerpts of this piece appeared in the “Cataloging the Line” edition of Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets. It contains some thoughts about lineation and what I often describe as “the tension of the sentence against the line.” The examples are all from Best American Poetry 2020, edited by Paisley Rekdal, but they’re also all available online via links in the piece: Regarding the Line
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Yetzirah Conference for Jewish Poetry: view a media archive of public events from the 2023 conference, which was held June 21-23 at UNC-Asheville. I spoke on the Writing Contemporary Midrash panel with Dan Bellm, Sally Rosen Kindred, Sharon Dolin, Heather Altfeld, and Nomi Stone, and gave a reading with Rodger Kamenetz, Aviya Kushner, Sam Taylor, and Joanna Fuhrman.


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