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January
Israel and Palestine: Whose Side Are You On?
2022
December
Being a Woman Is Not a Punishment: What’s at Stake for Men in the Policing of Women’s Bodies
August
A Gratitude in Me That I Did Not Fully Appreciate at the Time
June
Three Poems of Mine That Should Never Have Become As Relevant As They Are Now
Deciding Whether Something Should Be a Poem or an Essay
April
An Essay That Took Me More Than Thirty Years to Write Has Been Published!
A Provocation: Christianness (Not Christianity) Is to Jews and the People of Other Non-Christian Religions As Whiteness Is to People of Color
From “The Necessity to Speak,” by Sam Hamill
Reading Mark Nowak’s “Social Poetics:” Thinking About the First Tuesdays Cento and A ‘Flipped Script’ Poetry Reading
My Year Long Writing Project
March
What Writers Have Influenced Your Work?
What I’ve Been Thinking About Ukraine
January
When Did You Start Writing?
2021
July
My Pandemic Reading List
June
Thirteen Thoughts About Palestine, Israel, and Antisemitism
April
Craft Talk 3: Quincy Troupe’s Rhythm
2020
December
The Music I’d Like to Put Back Into My Life
The Way Academia Is Supposed to Work
November
Publication News: Three New Poems in Two Lovely Publications
October
Medical Culture and Its Effects on Doctors and Patients
Antisemitism Has Always Been a Part of My Life - 1
My Response to the Erasure of Antisemitism in Namrata Poddar’s Article in the Recent Issue of Poets & Writers
August
Lines That Didn’t Make the Cut: Sometimes It’s Just a Big Mess
From “The Lines That Antisemitism and Racism Draw”
July
Reading “The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women’s Rights in Islam,” by Fatima Mernissi
Commonplace Question #2: Are the Poems Part of a Conversation?
From “Pluralism and Its Discontents: The Case of Blacks and Jews,” by Cheryl Greenberg
From Male Lust
From Male Lust
Lines That Didn’t Make the Cut: Ruth’s Story
June
Commonplace Question #1: How Did You Become a Poet?
The Ethics of Bearing Witness in Poetry to Violence and Trauma
If You Read Rumi in English, Read This New Yorker Article
Lines That Didn’t Make the Cut: Remembering Claudia
From God’s Phallus, by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz
May
“Stand by Me” in Persian and English
Craft Talk 2: Packing Lines With Sound & Meaning - Rosa Alice Branco, Translated by Alexis Levitin
I Just Learned About the Equal Justice Initiative - If You Don’t Know About It, You Should
2019
April
“My Companion’s Scent Seeped Into Me” - National Sa’di Day
2018
August
Prepping for Fall 2018: The Poetry Workshop
Craft Talk 1: Figuring Out Why a Poem Doesn’t Work for Me
March
A Lovely Review Of “For My Son, a Kind of Prayer”
January
Rachelle Escamilla’s Interview With Me On “Out of Our Minds” on Kkup Cupertino | San Jose
2017
October
Some Thoughts About Harvey Weinstein and What He Represents
August
Trying to Write After Charlottesville
“Between the 1930s and the Year 2000…only 32 Novels Were Translated From Arabic Into Hebrew.”
July
Anatomy of a Book Cover
Compulsory Heterosexuality at Work
June
I Miss the Muppets!
I Know I’ve Had Orgasms That Changed Me
May
A Great Video on Racism by Maz Jobrani
Concerto for Two Men, by Ella Ben-Aharon
April
My Students First Taught Me to Claim the Politics of My Survival
A Video of the Book Launch For “Veils, Halos & Shackles”
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