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Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: In Beauty Bright Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterNational Jewish Book Award Winner Gerald Stern’s latest collection of poetry will be published next month by W. W. Norton: … Naomi Firestone-Teeter August 9, 2012
Recommended Reading Love & Death: Greatest Hits Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLove & Death: Greatest Hits, which was published by Tres Chicas Books in 2011, is a collaboration between… Naomi Firestone-Teeter August 8, 2012
Nonfiction Explaining Life: The Wisdom of Modern Jewish Poetry, 1960 – 2010 Eleanor Ehrenkranz
Nonfiction Portraits in Literature: The Jews of Poland, An Anthology Hava Bromberg Ben-Zvi, ed. and trans.
Nonfiction Eternally Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry Anne Lapidus Lerner
Essay Poetry on Demand On Tuesday, Jake Marmer wrote about poems as a noisy mediterranean duplex. He has been blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and… Jake Marmer January 5, 2012
Essay Poem as a Noisy Mediterranean Duplex Jake Marmer is the author of Jazz Talmud. He will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.About a decade ago I read a Billy… Jake Marmer January 3, 2012