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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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Regarding the Line
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.” … Continue reading
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Essay on the new translation of Bambi, in Electric Literature
Jack Zipes’s new translation, which came out this week, emphasizes Felix Salten’s 1923 novel’s evocation of the plight of European Jews. (The Nazis banned the novel in 1936 as a “political allegory.”) I was fascinated to reread the novel through … Continue reading
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