Poetry
Metula's Israeli Poets’ Festival returns to Jerusalem with all disciplinary guns blazing
If your idea of poetry is a neatly rhyming ditty, attending the festival should thoroughly disabuse you of that constricted notion and open up broad new vistas for your literary epiphany enjoyment.
Voices Israel anthology 2025: Celebrating English poetry shaped by war, love, and memory
Israeli lyricist Tzruya Lahav dies at 74 after cancer battle
Wedding invitation from 1955: A stroll through cherished memories - opinion
Nancy Pelosi reads Israeli poem in response to Roe v. Wade reversal
This is not the first time that the US Speaker has quoted Ehud Manor's poem.
Wow! A poetic evening to remember
Working together with co-editor Mindy Aber Barad Golembo, the magazine was launched that evening at the Pomeranz book store
Under the Same Sky – Israeli Poetry in Turkish
First International Poetry Festival held in Larnaca, Cyprus
Dorothy Parker: Witty, wise, wistful and wonderful
I wish I could have met her, just once, held her hand and whispered, “I understand.”
Poems and stories by the Jewish children of Kharkiv, Ukraine
A booklet labeled “The Lives of Children,” preserved at the National Library of Israel, contains Hebrew stories and poems written a century ago by Jewish high school students in Ukraine.
Immanuel of Rome: The Jewish Dante
Immanuel was a source of inspiration to Baroque Hebrew poet Jacob Frances (1615-67) who called him the emperor of poets in praise of his satiric verse.
Grapevine March 13, 2022: The departing pillar of democracy
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
Purim: A poem for the Jewish holiday
The poem reflects Paul Celan’s sense of an ultimatum and yet also a lightness that sometimes surprises, especially at the end of “The Meridian.”
Color me curious: The colorful English language
When people are in the pink or feeling blue, seeing red, being green with envy or plum yellow, they may well be showing their “true colors.”
