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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 596

poetry

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
Gerald Stern speaks to the audience during the National Book Awards in New York November 18, 1998. (AP Photo/Osamu Honda, File)
October 30, 2022, 2:09 am
Gerald Stern, prize-winning US poet who explored ‘the idea of a Jew,’ dies at 97
New Jersey’s first poet laureate wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humor about childhood, death and the divisions between rich and poor and Jews and non-Jews in Pittsburgh
By Hillel Italie
At the annual Poetry Festival, held in Metulla, this year taking place September 8-10, 2022 (Courtesy Nir Shaanani)
August 24, 2022, 6:23 am
Poetry still matters, especially at Metulla’s annual festival
Quarter-century mark for Israeli poets’ event brings new sounds, voices and topics
By Jessica Steinberg
Children watch puppeteer Oleksandra Shlykova (L) as she performs at the metro stations of Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, on April 16, 2022. (Maryke Vermaak/AFP)
April 17, 2022, 3:14 pm
Puppets, poetry go underground to entertain Ukrainians sheltering in Kharkiv metro
‘We exchange emotions and it lifts our spirits,’ says puppeteer putting on shows for kids and their parents seeking protection from Russian strikes
By Joe STENSON
Poet, translator and liturgist Marcia Falk (Cathleen Maclearie)
April 14, 2022, 11:59 pm
Jewish feminism ‘foremother’ Marcia Falk publishes lyrical haggadah
Pathbreaking poet and liturgist offers innovative take on text by highlighting biblical Exodus over rabbinic commentary. Here, she discusses her feminist and spiritual awakenings
By Renee Ghert-Zand
RIchard Howard (Screen capture: YouTube)
April 1, 2022, 8:32 pm
American-Jewish poet Richard Howard, a Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 92
Along with his poetry, Howard was acclaimed for his translations of French literature, including a version of Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du Mal’ that won a National Book Award
By Hillel Italie
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