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View of the northern town of Metula, on the border with Lebanon. June 22, 2026. (Chen Leopold/FLASH90)
August 19, 2026, 7:03 pm
Metula poetry festival moved to Jerusalem, for third year
Literary event celebrates 29 years, but northern town bombarded by Hezbollah can’t host guests just yet
By Jessica Steinberg
A rare, long-lost copy of Caedmon's Hymn — the oldest surviving poem in Old English — is visible in the five lines above the final line of a page from an 8th-century manuscript copy of the Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, at Rome's National Library, May 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrea Rosa)
May 17, 2026, 10:11 am
Researchers find oldest English poem in a Roman library
Caedmon’s Hymn, composed in Old English by a Northumbrian agricultural worker in 7th century, attests to language’s wide diffusion, long before what was previously understood
By Andrea Rosa
A woman sits by a wall covered with graffiti memorializing Yitzhak Rabin during a rally in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday, November 1, 2025, marking 30 years since his assassination. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
November 10, 2025, 5:58 am
Now in English, ‘Class of 95’ anthology brings elegies for Rabin to wider world
New edition of first-of-its-kind poetry collection memorializing prime minister aimed at galvanizing Diaspora Jews 30 years after his assassination, its editor says
By Jessica Steinberg
Chava Alberstein, center, with Haim Weiss, right and Yair Dalal, left, at the Metula Poetry Festival in Jerusalem on September 4, 2025 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
September 6, 2025, 9:41 am
Chava Alberstein talks about love of Yiddish, autobiography at fest
The beloved singer-songwriter shares stories from her autobiography, ‘Canaan Alley,’ at poetry festival relocated from Metula to Jerusalem
By Jessica Steinberg
At the 2024 Metula Poetry Festival, held in Jerusalem as it will be this year, September 3-5, 2025 (Courtesy Confederation House)
August 15, 2025, 11:38 am
Metula Poetry Festival to explores grief, resilience and renewal
Annual event to be held in Jerusalem for a second year, as northern town rebuilds after war with Hezbollah
By Jessica Steinberg
Poet and doctor Owen Lewis felt his latest poetry book 'barrel out of him' after the atrocities of October 7 (Courtesy Columbia News)
March 17, 2025, 8:03 am
Columbia med school professor and poet reflects on October 7 grief
In ‘A Prayer of Six Wings,’ psychiatrist Owen Lewis grapples with the traumas of the Hamas atrocities
By Jessica Steinberg
Géza Röhrig in 'After' (Lumen Productions)
November 8, 2024, 5:30 am
In striking art film, contemporary poets respond to the horrors of the Holocaust
Screening in New York and Los Angeles, genre-defying film about how poetic language can heal trauma points to how Israelis and Jews could use it to cope in Oct. 7 aftermath
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Yisrael Neta (left), Elhanan Nir, Meron Isaacson, Bacol Serlui and Sivan Har-Shefi at the Metula Poetry Festival relocated to Jerusalem, August 28-30, 2024. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
August 29, 2024, 6:53 pm
At festival displaced by war, poets reflect on post-Oct. 7 work
A session of mostly religious wordsmiths examines difficulty of making sense of this year’s events
By Jessica Steinberg
Smoke plumes billow after rockets were fired from Marjeyoun in southern Lebanon towards Metula across the border in northern Israel on July 12, 2024 (Rabih Daher/AFP)
August 27, 2024, 5:35 pm
Poetry festival moves from evacuated northern border town Metula to Jerusalem
Along with most residents, event is forced to relocate southward; with poems of battle, loss and rebirth, co-director says war ‘opened a kind of black box’ of trauma for many poets
By Jessica Steinberg
Judih Weinstein at an open mic evening at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York in 2003. (Courtesy: Caryn Suiters)
August 1, 2024, 7:24 pm
Poets publish chapbook in memory of Judih Weinstein, killed on October 7
The haiku writer was murdered by Hamas terrorists with her husband, Gad Haggai, outside Kibbutz Nir Oz
By Jessica Steinberg
A grab from an AFPTV footage taken on August 7, 2018, shows Russian poet Lev Rubinstein talking to journalists outside a church where the farewell ceremony for the director Alexander Rastorguyev took place, in Moscow. (Photo by AFPTV teams/AFP)
January 14, 2024, 4:17 pm
Russian dissident poet Lev Rubinstein, 76, dies of injuries after being hit by car
Vocal human rights activist was one of the founders of the Russian conceptualist movement, protested against Putin’s ‘criminal war’ in Ukraine
By AFP
Then-president Barack Obama embraces poet Louise Gluck before awarding her the 2015 National Humanities Medal during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington on September 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
October 17, 2023, 4:02 pm
Jewish poet Louise Glück, who won Nobel literature prize, dies at 80
Acclaimed since the 1970s for filtering personal and feminist themes though classical mythological, nature and religious imagery, she was also the US poet laureate in 2003
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Artist's image of Noah's ark (Javier_Art_Photography via iStock by Getty Images)
July 2, 2023, 3:58 pm
Poet brings biblical Noah into familiar territory of urban Israel, and climate change
‘The Book of Noah’ is Yoni Hammer-Kossoy’s ode to the environment and his backyard, along with the high-tech industry he left behind
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli poet and translator Meir Wieseltier in Tel Aviv in 2000. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
March 30, 2023, 10:35 pm
Israeli poet Meir Wieseltier dies at age 82
Prolific writer and translator was known for his overtly political works as well as his love poems, remembered as ‘one of the leaders of Hebrew poetry’
By ToI Staff
Argentinian poet Jorge Luis Borges holds a press conference while in Madrid, Spain, in 1963. (Getty Images via JTA)
November 11, 2022, 12:38 am
Renowned author’s passion for Israel, Judaism showcased in Buenos Aires
Jorge Luis Borges exhibit in Argentina National Library, co-organized by local Israeli embassy, set to feature events discussing Jewish themes in non-Jewish author’s work
By Juan Melamed
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