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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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If you applied to the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference
…by the priority deadline (April 4), you should have a response from us today, as promised. If not, you should email us at poetry@napawritersconference.org. If you applied after the priority deadline, you will probably hear from me in a week or … Continue reading
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As It Ought to Be
Today, the website As It Ought to Be is featuring my poem “A Newborn Girl at Passover” in their Saturday Poetry Series.
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Prince, 1958-2016
Six years ago, in a brief tribute to the poet Ai, I tried to put into words my sense of the way an artist’s work transforms when the artist’s life is over, and quoted Bishop’s elegy for Lowell: “Sad friend, you … Continue reading
Publishing opportunity: Rattle (poetry)
Also from socallitlist, an opportunity from the poetry magazine Rattle for Angelenos (that’s my preferred spelling, no disrespect to Rattle’s): Our Summer 2016 issue will be dedicated to Angelinos. The poems may be any subject or length, but must written by poets who … Continue reading
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Publishing opportunity: The Santa Ana Review (short fiction)
From socallitlist: The Santa Ana River Review, the literary journal of the University of California, Riverside’s MFA program, is now accepting submissions for the spring 2016 fiction contest “Writing Southern California.” We are looking for short stories from Southern Californian … Continue reading
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Book recommendations
One of the pleasures of winter break was a lunch out at Aroma Café with two well-read and well-reading friends. Friend #1 was spending break immersed in a Dickens novel (I can’t remember which one except that I know I … Continue reading
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First book of 2016
Reading Ruthellen Josselson’s Playing Pygmalion: How People Create One Another: People’s sense of reality is constructed in interconnection with those who make up their social world. There is not an “out there” world to be perceived accurately or inaccurately. Instead, we … Continue reading
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Awakening
Just about six weeks shy of a year since I posted last. Yes, I read Volume 4 of My Struggle this summer. Along with a lot of other books. In Volume 4, he’s a callow young man, just eighteen and graduated from … Continue reading
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Knausgaard and Emerson
My eleventh graders are reading “Self-Reliance” this week: Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an … Continue reading
Knausgaard: only a poet
There is so much I want to say about My Struggle. And one of the first things I want to do is to share some of the passages I have copied out. But this is wrong since it’s not a … Continue reading
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