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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Like all good poetry, Brian Rohr’s book stirs more questions than it gives answers. And like all Torah, it seeds more questions than it sprouts answers.” —Rabbi Arthur Waskow, author of Down-to-Earth Judaism "Shaken To My Bones: A Poetic Midrash on the Torah" by Brian Rohr

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Giving voice to unarticulated interpretations and stories, weaving yourself into the text, is a way of claiming ownership. Rather than crouching beneath the text, we expand it."

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Happy Hanukkah! Poems for a Cartoon Mouse is Andrew Burt's collection inspired by Fievel Mousekewitz Fievel’s family history—and the author’s—is one of a Jewish family immigrating from the Old World to the New www.amazon.com/Poems... #Jewish #poetry #JewishPoetryProject

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Celebrate Jewish Book Month with our buy more, save more Jewish Book Month sale. Save 20% on 1 book, 30% on 2-3, and 40% on 4 or more. Free shipping on orders over $25. Remember: Hanukkah is coming!

Ben Yehuda Press Jewish Book Month sale: Save 20% on 1 book, 30% on 2-3, and 40% on 4 or more. Free shipping on orders over $25.

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Join us this afternoon at 3 pm Eastern for an online poetry reading and conversation featuring Atar Hadari, Matthew Lippman, & Maxim D. Shrayer Sign up at

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A Poetry Reading and Conversation featuring Atar Hadari, Matthew Lippman, & Maxim D. Shrayer

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Join us Sunday at 3 pm Eastern for an online poetry reading and conversation featuring Atar Hadari, Matthew Lippman, & Maxim D. Shrayer, featuring new volumes focusing on the post-10/7 Diaspora experience and the life of Ariel Sharon

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Join us this afternoon at 3 pm Eastern for an online poetry reading and conversation featuring Genevieve Greinetz, Baruch November, & Donna Spruijt-Metz. Sign up at

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Jewish Poetry with Ben Yehuda Press

featuring Genevieve Greinetz, Baruch November, & Donna Spruijt-Metz

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Join us Sunday, 10/26, at 3 pm Eastern for an online poetry reading and conversation featuring Genevieve Greinetz, Baruch November, & Donna Spruijt-Metz. Sign up at

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Jewish Poetry with Ben Yehuda Press

featuring Genevieve Greinetz, Baruch November, & Donna Spruijt-Metz

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Our Simchat Torah sale is underway. Save 25% on all our parsha titles: prose, poetry, and pictures; the serious, the silly, and the interactive. www.benyehudapress.c...

Serious, silly, and interactive Torah companions.

Save on parsha poetry, prose, and pictures.

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Two new timely books of poetry. "King of the Jews" by Matthew Lippman captures the experience of mourning for 10/7 and fearing for the fate of the hostages from abroad.

“How does one respond to the terror of Oct 7? For Matthew Lippman, it’s through poetry. In King of the Jews, Lippman names many who perished, were kidnapped, held hostage. He names friends, students, rock stars, too. Lippman honors—and loves—them all. He even anoints them king, King of the Jews. These poems hold the beauty and the horror of the world and the deep longing, living within Lippman’s naked, aching heart.”

— Diane Gottlieb

“Atar Hadari’s extraordinary book Arik & Co. reads like a masterly biography magically transformed into vital poetry. Was Ariel Sharon a hero? Was he a monster? The force of a strong and twisting narrative spine, fleshed out in earthy interior monologs and dialogues, brings both the man and the era to inescapable life.”

— Alicia Ostriker

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

A New Year is dawning, may it be for the good, and with it lengthy synagogue stays. Now is the time to pick up shul reading, so we're running a sale: Save 20% on one book, 30% on two or three, and 40% on four or more.

Ben Yehuda Press Back-To-Shul sale with savings of up to 40%

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Continuing our series of bilingual poetry translations, "Wu Wei Eats an Egg" presents Dutch poet Lucas Hirsch in English carefully rendered by Donna Spruijt-Metz. *Wu wei eats an egg* What always was, is, and will be cracks an egg on the edge of a frying pan Acts according to the nature

“Alternatingly enraged at and bemused by the 21st century, with its traps of bourgeois excess, addiction, and ‘hollow language,’ Hirsch regularly explores the interior self, familial history, and the physical world.”
—Wayne Miller, author of The End of Childhood

Wu wei eats an egg

What always was, is, and will be
cracks an egg
on the edge
of a frying pan

Acts according to the nature
of the beast
It makes breakfast, the cosmos and planets
the tumbling sun

It laughs at all there is
It eats an egg under the heavens
It fills its belly

It sits back
in a chair
on the veranda
of a house
in a country
under the clouds
looking
at creation floating by

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Just published: "Zion Square," the new poetry collection from Maxim D. Shrayer. Available direct from Ben Yehuda Press and the usual places. *Zion Square* In the earthly city of Jerusalem I like to stay just a couple of blocks from Kikar HaMusica in Yo’el Moshe Salomon Street, a pathway

Cover of "Zion Square" by Maxim D. Shrayer

Orchestras played outside my hotel at night and
I listened to the music Jews couldn’t leave in Europe.
I felt sheltered by the might of the Iron Dome
but also the roof of particolored umbrellas that
hang over the street—once the prey of tourist
photos and travel agents’ brochures, now the sky
of our small warring country. I looked up and cried
for all my cousins-in-arms but also for myself. Mostly
tears of joy and comfort. Music didn’t end suddenly,
it flowed up toward Jaffa Street and I felt someone
or something carry me, a Jewish feather, to Kikar Tsiyon.

The memories Maxim Shrayer carries burn in carefully crafted verses as if to contain his furies and his love. Poems born since October 7, poems of Israel and the old Soviet Union, an imagination that can bring Nabokov to size up Putin, but can also relish the sweetness of concord grapes in Massachusetts. These are poems to savor and to learn.

—Rodger Kamenetz, author of
The Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Just published: "The Broken Heart is the Master Key," the new poetry collection from Baruch November (@bnovember). Introduction by Alicia Ostriker. Available direct from Ben Yehuda Press and the usual places.

“God works through the fires in the collection, inviting us to reflect on our own spiritual journeys… these poems … are courageous and vulnerable, unlocking painful and uplifting truths.”
—Jewish Book Council

The broken heart is the master key,
said the Baal Shem Tov.

Despair is the loudest language
in all worlds.

Ask the mother of the stolen seven-year-old girl.
Ask the widowed wives still in love.
Ask the newly dead as they look down.
Ask the soldier missing both arms.

The broken heart is the master key,
said the Chassidic master
to the shofar blower who lost
his page of mystical notations
& thought he had failed his task—

having blasted notes
like a simple,
broken man.

I have been an inept architect.
I built for one who does not live
with the truth of others.
I built for starlight,
not shelter.
—Baruch November

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

We are proud to be launching three new poetry titles this month: Wu Wei Eats an Egg by Lucas Hirsch, translated from the Dutch by @dsmpoet.bsky.social The Broken Heart is the Master Key by Baruch November Zion Square, by Maxim D. Shrayer

Zion Square by Maxim D. Shrayer: “Maxim D. Shrayer’s voice speaks across generations. With a stubborn belief that poetry must be healing, Shrayer writes poems that break through boundaries and fears, accept defeat, and yearn for pleasure.”
—David Biespiel, author of A Self-Portrait in the Year of the High Commission on Love

Wu Wei Eats an Egg by Lucas Hirsch: “Alternatingly enraged at and bemused by the 21st century, with its traps of bourgeois excess, addiction, and ‘hollow language,’ Hirsch regularly explores the interior self, familial history, and the physical world.”
—Wayne Miller, author of The End of Childhood

The Broken Heart is the Master Key by Baruch November: “God works through the fires in the collection, inviting us to reflect on our own spiritual journeys… these poems … are courageous and vulnerable, unlocking painful and uplifting truths.”
—Jewish Book Council

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Vanessa De Loya Stauber's POÉSIE ORGANIQUE / ORGANIC POETRY is one of our latest poetry releases. You can order it now! www.benyehudapress.c... 1/2

Vanessa de Loya Stauber writes about the gift she found later in life: A passionate, tender, and loving union that binds hesr to her husband — and to Jerusalem. These erotic poems are imbued with a sense of gratitude and commitment, to the promises they made to each other, and to the promise that comes with choosing to live in a holy land. They exude the bountiful fragrances and colors of the place they now call home: Israel — azure like the sky and white as the jasmine flower.

A song to the love of her life, “Organic Poetry” is a testament to sacred sensuousness, to discovering happiness and holding on to it like to dear life. In the words of the poet herself: “My poetry slips between the splinters of life and its untimely joys.”

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Noah Berlatsky's 1st collection of poetry, *Not Akhmatova* is a collection of quasi translations, appropriations, and arguments with the poetry of Anna Akhmatova in the context of Jewish diaspora. Order here: www.amazon.com/Not-A...

Lot’s Wife (as translated by Noah Berlatsky)

The righteous man followed God’s messenger,
huge and terrible, like a black mountain.
His great back to Lot’s wife was sorrow and fear.
She longed to stop and see just once again

the white spires of her home, the place
in the square where she sang to her children.
The windows of the house where in joy and pain
she gave birth to her children.

And so she turned back, for one last sight.
Her eyes like those windows were empty.
Her body was a pillar of salt, bleached white.
Her feet were rooted in place, like a memory.

We aren’t supposed to mourn her.
She’s a fool, and so many others burned.
They say do not look towards her
who defied God, and turned.

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Sally Priesand, the first ordained American woman rabbi, was born on this day in 1946. She's one of our HEROES WITH CHUTZPAH! www.benyehudapress.c... 1/3

digital illustration showing a tween girl from the back with long hair looking at a portrait of Priesand on a wall in a gold frame; Priesand is a young woman in glasses; a torah scroll is beside her

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The JBI (former Jewish Braille Institute) has sponsored audio recordings of two Jewish Poetry Project titles: Rodger Kamenetz's THE MISSING JEW and Maya Bernstein's NO PLACE WITHOUT YOU. 1/5

cover of NO PLACE WITHOUT YOU

cover image is photo of a very old, closed blue arched door; looks like it dates from ancient times

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

A poem for sunday by Jewish-American poet Hadara Bar-Nadav .

Lullaby (with Exit Sign)
Hadara Bar-Nadav

I slept with all four hooves
in the air or I slept like a snail

in my broken shell.

The periphery of the world
dissolved. A giant exit sign

blinking above my head.

My family sings
its death march.

They are the size of the moon.

No, they are the size
of thumbtacks punched

through the sky’s eyelid.

What beauty, what bruise.

What strange lullaby is this
that sings from its wound?)

Here, my dead father knocks

on a little paper door. Here,
my family knocks, waits.

Come through me, my darlings,

whatever you are: flame,
lampshade, soap.

Leave your shattered shadows

behind. I’ll be the doorway
that watches you go.

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

R. B. Lemberg's EVERYTHING THAWS is a poetric cycle and memoir "suspended between Ukraine and the permafrost of Siberia, among the traumatized, silent, persecuted members of their Jewish family." www.benyehudapress.c... 1/2

When I came back to Ukraine
after a year in Vorkuta
I drew the northern lights to show my classmates. I drew myself
dragging a little sleigh, head up to the vast shimmering road in the sky.
It was my road
that showed me the way when I was six –
white, wide, stretching across the black winter sky
in complete silence, under the immovable permanence of the cold.
“You’re lying,” my classmates yelled, and later
the whole class trapped me in the school attic
and beat me, screaming that I was a Jew
who believed in G-d (remember, these were Soviet times
and believing in G-d was forbidden)
and that I was lying
about the northern lights I saw in Vorkuta.
They had never seen the Northern lights, but they knew
what a Jew looked like.

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Ilya Gutner's book of poems WALKING TRIPTYCHS: SHANGHAI POEMS is a series of poems written walking around Shanghai and thinking about the Holocaust and its legacy. 1/2

What These Poems Are

These are poems from when I walked about Shanghai and thought about the meaning of the Holocaust. Why did I think about the meaning of the Holocaust? That is answered by what brought me to China in the first place. What brought me to China? Only the encounter with the plain reality that in the West the Nazis really won, under a hundred different names. Theirs was not a unitary thought. Gathering my own thoughts in a unity, I came to the conclusion that it does not matter if they won or not. No evil had been done except if we forget the evil. Why do we forget the evil? Because if I forget the evil which is at the roots of my life, it is easier to think that the temporary pleasures and worries that my life is filled with, are important. So that I can go and love myself, and not like other people, under a hundred different names, forgetting the simple meaning of the one name I was born with: Human.

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Attached is the poem "Today" by Rosa Nevadovska (1890-1971), translated by Merle L. Bachman from the Yiddish. Bachman's translation of Nevadovska's poems, *So Many Warm Words* is published by Ben Yehuda Press in a bilingual translation. www.benyehudapress.c... 1/5

Today
I wander up and down the streets. Distant people feel close:
I carry your words with me, from your poem — its slender flame.
My heart is open. Today, in silence, I want to bless —
Earth, waters, forests — along with you and me.

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Lori Levy's poetry collection *Feet In L.A., But My Womb Lives In Jerusalem, My Breath In Vermont* merges nostalgia and carpe diem as she recalls important stations of her journeys between Vermont, Israel, and California. www.benyehudapress.c... 1/3

About this book

What more could I ask for than a chair at your bright yellow table, high as clear skies, pine trees, and the dusty red roofs of Jerusalem.

Lori Levy’s delicate poems oscillate vividly between the sensation of dayenu-moments, when we feel perfectly whole and at peace —and our craving to experience more: more of this life, again, more of this place, or another place, of another moment. Levy merges nostalgia and carpe diem as she recalls important stations of her journeys between Vermont, Israel, and California. To love means to know well: a person, a place, a specific shade of light at a precise hour of the day, the taste of her mother-in-law’s kubeh dish. As we follow Levy’s memories of her longings, joys, and loves we are reminded of how we can find permanence in every impermanent moment, savored in the present.

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak was born on this date in 1928. He's one of our HEROES WITH CHUTZPAH! www.benyehudapress.c... 1/3

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE cover, illustration shows a boat approaching a forested island with a sleeping monster

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Drica Loba, the cover artist for David Caplan's BYP poetry collection NORTH SHORE, has posted about the painting and the collaboration. www.dricalobo.com/po... 1/3

Last year, while I was in France for an artist residency—processing some of the deepest emotions of my life after the passing of my father—I received an unexpected email. It was from poet and professor David Caplan, asking permission to use one of my paintings, Sun Is Shining, for the cover of his new book of poetry.

As soon as he shared the context—that his book, North Shore: Poems of Mourning and Remembrance, was a tribute to his own father—I felt goosebumps. It felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like something bigger. A subtle, serendipitous moment of connection between two strangers, navigating loss through their art.

I’m so honored that Sun Is Shining became the face of this deeply moving collection. I asked David a few questions about the collaboration, and here’s what he shared:

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I just learned that British WW I poet Siegfried Sassoon's father was Jewish. So seemed like a good excuse to share a few of his poems for this Sunday. Here's a famous, jaded account of heroism in war.

The Hero
'Jack fell as he'd have wished,' the mother said,
And folded up the letter that she'd read.
'The Colonel writes so nicely.' Something broke
In the tired voice that quavered to a choke.
She half looked up. 'We mothers are so proud
Of our dead soldiers.' Then her face was bowed.

Quietly the Brother Officer went out.
He'd told the poor old dear some gallant lies
That she would nourish all her days, no doubt
For while he coughed and mumbled, her weak eyes
Had shone with gentle triumph, brimmed with joy,
Because he'd been so brave, her glorious boy.

He thought how 'Jack', cold-footed, useless swine,
Had panicked down the trench that night the mine
Went up at Wicked Corner; how he'd tried
To get sent home, and how, at last, he died,
Blown to small bits. And no one seemed to care
Except that lonely woman with white hair.

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Ben Yehuda Press publishes lots of talented poets, many of whom have released books elsewhere, too. So here's a thread of books BYP poets have published with presses other than BYP. www.benyehudapress.c...

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

A reminder that Genevieve Greinetz's poetry collection ANIMALS ARE SHOUTING DOWN FROM THE SKY is available now! "The poems in this collection begin in the middle of a thought. The effect that this has is one of deep urgency.... " —Matthew Lippman www.benyehudapress.c...

Imagining Imagination
I’ve got a boyfriend in the phone. He lives
up the street in San Francisco. Once
we drank and talked and slept
now we air and fire and text. It’s the new thing Rachel tells me. Talking to someone
it’s all the rage right now you never see them
just think together in a relatively close knit
sphere of mileage so you could grab the keys
and drive over if needed, but otherwise masturbation. Otherwise dreams. Otherwise just imagining imagination. My therapist says this is a pattern
for me. To fuck the unreal. It’s just the real
stings. And i’ve been stung

out in the surf these little jellyfish bump around
one nabbed me with its ass or whatever
stings. I limped out. Put the board
on my head. Stumbled home. You can’t get angry
at your therapist or the ocean – they turn it around and float you in it. So you get stuck
and stung. See the real
stings and my shadow text boy
can’t reach me, he doesn’t even drive. But i do & tonight i turn the seat heater on so driving north
is bearable on my jelly stung tush. It’s stinging real
out here and the words talk sometimes, too.

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

For Sunday, thought we'd share one of Paul Celan's poems, "There Was Earth Inside Them," translated by Pierre Joris. 1/3

There was earth inside them

Paul Celan
1920 –
1970

translated from the German by Pierre Joris

There was earth inside them, and
they dug.

They dug and dug, thus did
their day go, their night. And they did not praise God,
who, so they heard, wanted all this,
who, so they heard, knew all this.

They dug and heard nothing more;
they didn’t grow wise, invented no song,
thought up no language for themselves.
They dug.

A stillness came, a storm too came,
all the seas came.
I dig, you dig, and the worm too digs,
and what sings over there says: they dig.

O one, o no one, o no one, o you:
Where did it lead, as it led nowhere?
O you dig and I dig, and I dig myself toward you,
and on our finger the ring awakens.

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Thread with a bunch of great book recs, including a number of BYP titles!

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Baruch November's THE BROKEN HEART IS THE MASTERKEY is a unique Hasidic dance, a lyrical niggun that lingers in our hearts long after we finish reading. Pre-orders are now available. www.benyehudapress.c...

Another Return

The guest speaker's proclaiming
a dead rabbi the messiah
drove the tiny shul into seething debate
as the congregants drank cold,
burning fingers of French vodka,
chewed on tight, spiraled pastries,
ringed with hard chocolate
until the roaring dispute was blunted
by an old butcher confessing
that he doesn’t need the messiah.
He’d be just as happy hearing his
long-gone tuneless father sing
the blessings again over terribly
sweet wine, carve a large challah
to exact pieces for six siblings,
and stare through
the steam curling off
lentil soup that dulls
the severe edges
of this world
once more.

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Drica Loba, the cover artist for David Caplan's BYP poetry collection NORTH SHORE, has posted about the painting and the collaboration. www.dricalobo.com/po... 1/3

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Andrew Burt's POEMS FOR A CARTOON MOUSE is a collection of poems gut-wrenching in their examination of the American dream

While the poems in this collection are inspired by the story of Fievel Mousekewitz, the cartoon mouse of the author’s childhood, they are gut-wrenching in their examination of the American dream. Fievel’s family history—and the author’s—is one of a Jewish family immigrating from the Old World to the New and eventually being pulled across the plains: “When migrant boys looked west in leather hats, their slang pierced with Polish accents.” Even though “tomorrow is made of rocks and time; is the draft that sweeps sleepily through the fallen branches,” it is also where immigrants “watch their dreams decompose on plywood” as they search “for whatever it is that makes men free.”

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Noah Berlatsky's poetry collection NOT AKHMATOVA is now available on a range of ebook platforms. books.apple.com/us/b...... www.barnesandnoble.c......; play.google.com/stor...... www.amazon.com/dp/B0... 1/2

About this book

Anna, the border washed your tongue from our tongue.

Anna, the border is a voice that said our name.

“Not Akhmatova” by Noah Berlatsky navigates the intricate dance between homage and reinvention, drawing inspiration from the works of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. A book of quasi translations, appropriations, and alienations, it is also an authentic and unique examination of rootlessness and the need to belong. Berlatsky’s argumentative and proud poems explore his own relationship with Russia as well as the concept of Jewish diaspora identity.

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Two new books of Jewish poetry are out today from BYP! 1/3

Jewish Poetry Project New Jewish poetry from Ben Yehuda Press

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

For Sunday, we're sharing a few poems by Jewish-American modernist/objectivist poet Charles Reznikoff (1894—1976). This is his poem "Romance" (Reznikoff was in the army during WW I, though he did not see active duty.) 1/3

The troopers are riding, are riding by
the troopers are riding to kill and die
that a clean flag may cleanly fly.

They touch the dust in their homes no more,
they are clean of the dirt of shop and store,
and they ride out clean to war.

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Two new books of Jewish poetry are out next week from BYP. You can order them right now. 1/3

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Award-winning screenwriter Edward Pomerantz's BITS AND PIECES is a poetic memoir of 1940s-50s Jewish working-class life in New York’s Washington Heights. www.benyehudapress.c... 1/3

About this book

“Bits and pieces / scraps / what’s left on the barber shop floor / after a haircut / before the barber sweeps up”

In this unsentimental poetic memoir, award-winning screenwriter Edward Pomerantz captures significant moments of his life exactly between “before” and “after.” With the precise eye of a filmmaker, the soul of a playwright, he knows exactly how many frames to cut in order to evoke poignant images that are sharp and tender.

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Big mother's day poetry reading TODAY! At 8 PM ET, ten Jewish poets will be reading from their work at The Only One Or One Of Many event. Two BYP poets, Rhonda Rosenheck and Baruch November, are featured! Sign up at the link. us02web.zoom.us/meet... 1/3

May 11
The Only One Or One of Many

Veronica Schorr
Rhonda Rosenheck
Baruch November
Talya Jankovits
Yehoshua November
Richard Michelson
Tzivia Gover
Susan Comninos
Barbara Unger
Susan Cohen

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Given the state of everything, it seemed like a good moment for some agonized screams. So here's a Sunday thread of Jewish noise—starting with Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music. www.youtube.com/watc... 1/7

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Vanessa De Loya Stauber's POÉSIE ORGANIQUE / ORGANIC POETRY is out now. Order it here: www.benyehudapress.c... 1/2

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Big mother's day poetry reading upcoming! This Sunday 10 (ten!) Jewish poets will be reading from their work at The Only One Or One Of Many event. Two BYP poets, Rhonda Rosenheck and Baruch November, are featured! Sign up at the link. us02web.zoom.us/meet... 1/3

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

President Trump fired Doug Emhoff and other Biden appointees from the board of the Holocaust Museum. Emhoff, who is featured in our book HEROES WITH CHUTZPAH, criticized the politicization of the museum and Holocaust memory. www.npr.org/2025/04/... 1/2

"To turn one of the worst atrocities in history into a wedge issue is dangerous — and it dishonors the memory of six million Jews murdered by Nazis that this museum was created to preserve," wrote Emhoff, whose great-grandparents fled persecution from modern-day Poland in the early 19th century.

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Jewish Poetry Project of Ben Yehuda Press @jpoetryproject.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Julia Knobloch's second book of poetry, THE BOOK OF FAILED SALVATION, is about a relationship and its end seen through the lens of Jewish history and faith. www.benyehudapress.c... 1/4

"Tammuz"

It was a day from childhood summers
when you could stay inside
without the urgency to seize the day
when there would always be more of this—
this heat, this scent, these cherries
when you could still go to the beach tomorrow and again.

The sunset turned brownstones yellow.
We sat in my glowing garden
one day and fifty years after the landing on the moon.
An ocher crescent waxed on the label of the wine you brought.

I stroked your naked feet that rested in my lap.
Your eyes were green and amber.

One day and nineteen hundred fifty years ago,
the city’s walls were breached.
I was supposed to guard the temple courts—
how could I not yield to summer’s siege?

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