Recent Publications
& Updates:
Poetry Reading with Alicia Ostriker and Eleanor Wilner,
November 23, 2020,
JCC of Buffalo
with Marie Howe and Leila Chatti
December, 2019
Brooklyn Public Library
Podcast Interview on Two Worlds Exist,
New Books Network,
September, 2020
A Tribute to Chana Bloch."
Panel with Danusha Lameris, Andrea Hollander,
James Crews, and Rachel Mennies
March 6, 2020
AWP Conference, San Antonio, Texas
(Postponed to AWP 2021
in Kansas City, Missouri).
"There is Only One Story,"
a poem on the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, featured on Chabad.org and in a Poetry International special collection of poems on the spirit.
"Contemporary Poetry and Mystical Intimacy,"
an essay on Chassidic Thought, The Song of Songs, and contemporary poetry, published on the Lehrhaus.
“Come, My Beloved, to Greet the Bride,”
a personal essay on a 16th Century Kabbalistic poem, featured in Harvard Divinity Bulletin.
A selection of poems from God's Optimism, set to music by composer William Vollinger, received a 2019 American Prize Honorable Mention for Vocal Chamber Music. Click here to listen to the set of songs performed by Lawrence Indik, baritone & Charles Abramovic, piano on Jan. 30, 2019 @ Temple University