Poetry

Read Tikva Hecht's powerful poem to enter the world of Elul.

A poem addressed to survivors in the Chareidi community about the existential confusion endured by child sexual abuse.

Wendy Zierler interprets a 2015 poem by the late Haim Gouri, reflecting on the challenges of aging, and on the complex and often mournful relationship between the Jewish people, their history, and their literature.

What happens at the end of the old year? Hillel Broder explored this boundary in his new poem for the Lehrhaus.

The poetry of the Mishkan: Abe Mezrich mines Parshat Terumah for its poetic potential.

In this poem, Ian Kohn reflects on the cyclical nature of the Jewish people

In this pair of poems, Dovid Campbell imagines the unspoken words that arise from scenes in Aggada

The death of Nadav and Avihu is difficult to explain, perhaps even impossible to approach through the medium of language. In a composition crossing the boundaries of original drashah, Breslov thought, poetry, visual art, and historical fiction, Akiva Weisinger renders the tragedy of Nadav and Avihu as a reflection of the Vacated Space beyond human language.

Levi Morrow provides an all-new translation of Rav Elhanan Nir’s “Kavvanot for Rosh Hashanah,” and analyzes how these theological poems speak about our relationship with God and prayer on Rosh Hashanah.

Two new poems by Temima Weissmann address national calamities, both past and present.