Poem | The Poem’s Journey
Remembering Myra Sklarew and her poem “The Poem’s Journey” which was published in Moment half a century ago.
Remembering Myra Sklarew and her poem “The Poem’s Journey” which was published in Moment half a century ago.
“I find it difficult to understand, wrote Yitzhak, why the sun is greater than the moon.”
“Violence afoot. He wouldn’t move, but Grace… Said “Sit down, Honey” and he did and there was peace.”
“Prisoner Z” conjures a dystopian world that exists today in countries we can name.
This poem by Rachel Mennies looks to the leaves for signs of resilience and finds them “more alive” for having braved the dark.
David Israel Katz writes us into spaces that negate sense, and importantly, negate our impulse to try to locate sense.
The terebinth tree in the Arava is at least a thousand years old, as was her mother before her.
How to explain the poem that writes itself after the final poem, after the book has closed?
The fig tree’s fruit falls to the ground, Its purpled flesh still burning.