Poetry | Undergrowth, by Sara Camhaji
In Sara Camhaji’s poems, the speaker’s worldview encompasses the plants’ power and authority over human ways.
Who Was Jacob de Haan?
A new documentary explores the life and 1924 assassination of gay Haredi anti-Zionist Dutch Jewish poet and lawyer Jacob de Haan.
Poetry | Reheat, by David Israel Katz
David Israel Katz writes us into spaces that negate sense, and importantly, negate our impulse to try to locate sense.
Exploring Today’s World Through Poetry with Richard Michelson & Amy E. Schwartz
Join Michelson, author of Sleeping as Fast as I Can, and Moment Book and Opinion Editor Amy E. Schwartz for a conversation about “how one acts responsibly in a world that is at once beautiful and full of suffering-balanced precariously on the edge of despair and ruin?”
Q&A: The Poems in Progress of Linda Pastan, z”l
In February 2022, Moment interviewed Linda Pastan about her poem, “I Hold My Breath,” published in our November/December 2020 issue. To mark her passing, we’re...
On Poetry | Nelly Sachs and the Poetry of Flight
Sachs dropped the masks that had let her speak through the murdered Jews of Europe and wrote from her own position in the world.
Living Jewish Literature With Faye Moskowitz
“Ethan, it’s far past time you took a class with Faye. I’ve already told her you’ll be there.”
Book Review | A Poet’s Appetite for Grief and Desire
Barbara Goldberg’s poetry has always displayed an insatiable appetite for grief and desire.
Poem | The Mocking Bird
How is my desire lost? It pours out of my body.
Poem | First Covid-19 Summer
Some of us are lucky. We can swim in a lake. We can walk on a dirt road.
Poem | I Hold my Breath
1.
I keep calling up Weather to ask
if it’s going to rain, though I’m standing
at the window and can see
the staccato drops already falling.
We were to...
Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Jewish-American Poet Louise Glück
This week's announcement that Jewish-American writer Louise Glück has received the Nobel Prize in Literature is cause for celebration during a decidedly difficult season. Glück, who is widely regarded as one of the most gifted lyrical poets of our time, is the first American woman poet ever to have received this honor.