This (Jewish) year I’ve been a member of ADVOT, a group of Jewish writers, musicians, artists, and liturgists who meet every Friday for time to create, talk, and spark new ideas together. ADVOT puts out an anthology of participants’ work each spring, and this season’s is available now.

The collected work is divided into four sections: our spiritual conversations, the pursuit of finding meaning in our challenges, the gifts of ancestral wisdom and our interconnectedness with the sacred ecology of nature. With original prayers, poems and rituals, this collection can be used in a variety of contexts, from personal contemplation to synagogue services and beyond.

Two of my poems are here, one about the holiness of the body that originally appeared in Lilith and one that was written for a book of poems in response to historic photographs. That project got cancelled, so I’m glad the poem found a home here!.

Books are $18 – order your copy by clicking the cover below.

We’ll be doing an end of the year group reading on Thursday, June 27 at 7 pm ET. Click the image below to register!

Live at Broadkill Review are two poems from my ongoing series of poems about whether or not God/god has a body, and what that might mean for our own bodies and our own holiness. Up at Broadkill are “All Beings Yearn,” which references Jewish morning liturgy and Rav. Kook, before diving into the climate catastrophe that is barreling towards us, and “the mind a galaxy the life a cell” which opens with a beautiful line borrowed from poet Jane Mead: I am not equal to my longing

Find the poems here.

These are all from a manuscript-in-process about a life lived in a very, very, small rural midwestern town.

Bull

lay me down in the tall grass

a small price for freedom

North of Oxford – click to read

New poem in “Elevate,” the spring 2024 issue of Yellow Arrow Journal

An Editors’ Choice poem from the 2024 Sandy Crimmins prize at Philadelphia Stories

This poem was inspired by a podcast on the Fish-Tetrapod Transition on the BBC series “In Our Time.”

On Tuesday, March 5th I sat down with interviewer-extraordinaire Charles Carr to talk about my work as a poet, translator, and liturgist, and then to read from my forthcoming chapbook of translations and some new work.

Check out all Philly Loves Poetry episodes at Philly Cam.

My sweet haiku “redbud” is up in Human Obscura #8. Look for page 57!