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Poet & essayist Rachel Neve-Midbar’s first book, Salaam of Birds (Tebot Bach-2020) won the Bibby First Book Prize. Rachel, a current PhD at USC, is also editor of Stained: an anthology of writing about menstruation. More at rachelnevemidbar.com
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The Witness of Birds: Introducing the Poetry of Susanna Lang and the Artwork of Helen Frankenthaler (opens the original)
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In these poems, through a single dark season, in cities across the globe holding their breath, we meet the birds everywhere as witnesses. Jackdaws ask the hour, sparrows carry on after loss, and a cardinal lies still beneath the glass it struck. Grief is present too, personal and public, but so is the stubborn insistence that music, attention, and the making of things go on. This is the poetry of my dear friend, Susanna Lang. I’ve paired her poems with artwork by Helen Frankenthaler, whose stain
No one/ bears witness for the/ witness: Introducing the Poems of Paul Celan and the Artwork of Lucien Freud (opens the original)
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There is no poetry more broken than the later work of Paul Celan as translated by Pierre Joris. Yet the broken pieces reveal the light within: the light within the darkness of a broken man, the light within the darkness of a broken world after the Holocaust, the light within a poem. When we read Celan in translation its easy think that every thought is a translation from the self to the self, that every word is a translation from self to language and that every utterance is a translation from la
New Submission Call From Calul Journal: The State of the World (opens the original)
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We are living through a moment that many of us are struggling to name, let alone write toward. There has been a resurgence of antisemitism — not at the margins, but increasingly in plain sight. Wars continue without clear end. Democratic institutions that once felt permanent are visibly straining. AI is reshaping how we work, communicate, and even trust what we see. Partisanship has hardened into something closer to estrangement. And beneath all of it is a broader erosion — of the norms, protect
Another Complicated New Year: Introducing the Poetry of Lesléa Newman and the Artwork of Issachar Ber Ryback (opens the original)
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It was hard to publish these poems today, poems from Lesléa’s newest book, The Last Flame Last, due out from Finishing Line Press. This Rosh Hashana I wanted to set my mind and heart to the future of my dreams: a future full only with co-existence and peace. A future of light. While Issachar Ber Ryback’s paintings typify the historical violence in the European shetls, Lesléa’s poems are born in the reality of today, a time of confusion, of evil leaders and evil wars and terrible violence, commit
Elul: Introducing the Poetry of Bruce Black and Paying Our Respects to the Palestinian Artist Sliman Mansour (opens the original)
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The month of Elul in the Hebrew calendar is the time set aside for our inner contemplation before the Days of Awe of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, when the Jewish nation asks how can we change our past actions for a better future? The Baal Shem Tov (Israel ben Eliezer {1700-1760} Jewish mystic and healer regarded as the founder of Hasidic Judaism) says that in Elul the King leaves His palace for the field, so that anyone can approach Him — no appointment, no throne room, just an open space under
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