Recent Publications
& Updates:
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Yehoshua's poem
"What About the Here and Now?"
was selected for inclusion in the 2025
Best American Poetry anthology.
The poem was first published in TriQuarterly
and is also included in
The Concealment of Endless Light.
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"Exile for the Sake of Redemption,"
a poem in The Concealment of Endless Light,
appeared in the July 2025 issue of The Sun.
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The Concealment of Endless Light
was reviewed in Jewish Review of Books.
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​June 24-27, 2025
Yehoshua will teach
three poetry workshops
for the Dayenu Cohort
@ the Yetzirah
Poetry Conference,
UNC-Asheville.
To learn more, click here.
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January 13, 2025
Online Discussion
moderated by book critic
Sandee Brawarsky,
hosted by Dorot, NYC.
Click here to register.
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November 3, 2024
"To See What is Heard:
Concretizing the Abstract
& the Spiritual,"
Online Generative Workshop,
2:00-4:30PM, hosted by Yetzirah:
a Hearth for Jewish Poetry.
To register, click here.
Click here to watch a recording
of Yehoshua in conversation
with Ariel Evan Mayse,
professor of Religious Studies
at Stanford University.
The conversation covered
contemporary poetry, Chassidic thought,
spiritual journeys--
and the overlap of all the above!
Hosted by the Institute of Jewish Spirituality and Society on 9/11/24.
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The Concealment of Endless Light,
Yehoshua's third poetry collection,
is now available!
Please check the Events page
for Yehoshua's 2024 book-tour schedule.
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an essay in which Yehoshua
draws on Chassidic theology
to explain contemporary poetry's obsession
with the ordinary.
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​​​​​​​Yehoshua will be
a returning Fellow
@ the Yetzirah
Poetry Conference,
UNC-Asheville,
July 2-5.
Click here to register
for online events. ​
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"Hearing Roy Orbison in a Mikvah in Salem, MA," "Notes on Marriage," and "Driving Back to College in a Storm" were recently featured on Vox Populi.
Two new poems--"Notes on the Tzimtzum" and "On the World's Continuity Via Divine Speech"--were recently featured on The Lehrhaus.
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Yehoshua read and discussed
his poem "Conjoined Twins"
on Sarah Grynberg's A Life of Greatness podcast.
Click here to listen.
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Yehoshua read at the Yetzirah Poetry Conference
with Ilya Kaminsky, Sharon Dolin,
Sally Rosen Kindred & Judith Baumel,
June 21, 2023.
Click here to watch a video of the reading.
Yehoshua served as a Fellow
at Yetzirah's summer poetry conference,
June 20-25, at UNC-Asheville. Click here to
access recordings of many of the conference events.
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New poems appear in THRUSH, Commonweal, Cider Press Review, Tiferet, Baltimore Review, Kosmos,
The Lehrhaus, Gashmius Magazine
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"2AM, and the Rabbinical Students Stand in Their Bathrobes," a poem from Two Worlds Exist, was featured on the Best American Poetry blog.
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In "The Jewish Poem That Helped Me Grieve," a personal essay featured on heyalma, Benyamin Rumi explores how a poem in Two Worlds Exist helped him grapple with the loss of a loved one.
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"Teachers and Students," which appeared in Baltimore Review's Spring 2022 issue, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
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"Body and Soul, the Poetry of Yehoshua November," a lengthy essay by Liz Rosenberg on Yehoshua's first two poetry collections, was the cover feature on the April 2022 volume of Hollins Critic.
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Click here to listen.
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A new poem, "On learning, via Facebook, of the divorce of two friends whose marriage I helped orchestrate,"
is featured in Tampa Review 61/62.
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A new poem, "Revelation After Cochlear Implant Revision Surgery," is featured in the fall 2021issue of Reflections, the Yale Divinity School journal.
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A new poem, "The Buttonhook," is featured in the July 2021 issue of The Sun.
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Poetry Reading with Alicia Ostriker and Eleanor Wilner,
November 23, 2020,
JCC of Buffalo
Click here for a Youtube recording of the event.
Yehoshua's "Foreword" to
101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium
featured in Tikkun
Podcast Interview on Two Worlds Exist,
New Books Network,
September, 2020
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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).
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with Marie Howe and Leila Chatti
December, 2019
Brooklyn Public Library
Click here for a Youtube recording of the event.
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"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.
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"Contemporary Poetry and Mystical Intimacy,"
an essay on Chassidic Thought, The Song of Songs, and contemporary poetry, published on the Lehrhaus.
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“Come, My Beloved, to Greet the Bride,”
a personal essay on a 16th Century Kabbalistic poem, featured in Harvard Divinity Bulletin.
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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