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Latest posts My Pandemic Reading List Thirteen Thoughts About Palestine, Israel, and Antisemitism Craft Talk 3: Quincy Troupe’s Rhythm The Music I’d Like to Put Back Into My Life The Way Academia Is Supposed To Work Publication News: Three New Poems in Two Lovely Publications 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 Lines That Didn’t Make The Cut: Sometimes It’s Just a Big Mess from “The Lines That Antisemitism and Racism Draw” 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 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 “Stand By Me” in Persian and English Craft Talk 2: Packing Lines with Sound & Meaning - Rosa Alice Branco, translated by Alexis Levitin from “The Necessity to Speak,” by Sam Hamill I Just Learned About the Equal Justice Initiative - If You Don’t Know About It, You Should Reading Mark Nowak’s “Social Poetics:” Thinking About The First Tuesdays Cento and A ‘Flipped Script’ Poetry Reading My Year Long Writing Project “My Companion’s Scent Seeped Into Me” - National Sa’di Day Prepping For Fall 2018: The Poetry Workshop Craft Talk 1: Figuring Out Why a Poem Doesn’t Work For Me