Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar

Call for Submissions Poetry as Prayer: A High-Holiday Folio at Calul Journal is calling for submissions.This Substack is reader-supported.

Call for Submissions Last call for submissions! Send 3-5 poems to caluljournal@gmail.com today

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The Substance of Grief: Introducing the Poetry and the Photography of Alexis Rhone Fancher On Easter Monday 2025 the poet and photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher lost her sister Debra to cancer.

In these sad and scary days, this feature by the great poet and photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher in Calul Journal brings me comfort. I hope it does you too.

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The Steps of Life: Introducing the poetry of John Benditt As soon as I read the poetry of John Benditt, I thought of cubism and the paintings of Pablo Picasso.

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This week at Calul Journal John Benditt's are featured where John's poems are displayed with paintings by Pablo Picasso.

Read the feature here and subscribe to Calul Journal for beautiful free poetry delivered into your inbox every Sunday

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Deep body poetry is the poetry of the disabled body, the queer & trans body and the menstruating body.The workshop will start on July 10th and will run for 4 weeks. The class can be taken asynchronistically. Come write with us!!
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God Looked Into the Torah and Created the World: Introducing the Poetry of Dan Alter No, I’m not going to write about ceasefires or foul-mouthed presidents.

The inaugural post of Calul is up! We are a Jewish journal, but we welcome all poets from all walks of life. Calul is Hebrew for inclusivity and that is what I hope the journal will stand for, for bridges, for friendships, for the very human in every poem.
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How do we bring wonder into terrible times? Through poetry.
In answer to these dark days 15 women poets bring us their "souls on the page" in poems about This Moment.

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**URGENT** Timely Request --THIS MOMENT--

These are unprecedented times

What are you thinking about? What is important to you in THIS MOMENT?

Send me 3-5 original unpublished poems (no political rants please--go deep) to rachelnmjudith@gmail.com
send your best poems

Still We Have Poems: Introducing the Poetry of Bill Freedman Children are dying.

This week at Judith Poetry. When there are no words, at least there are poems...

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FIRE! On this the eve of Lag B’Omer, the holiday of fire on our Jewish calendar, we at Judith offer you an entire folio of poems that deal with the heat, the flame, the many passions of fire.

This week at Judith Poetry, the many faces of FIRE!

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Come Write About the Deep Body!
Join our workshop.
Four Sundays through May and June.
Intimate & safe space to write the stories you have been carrying all this time.

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What does fire mean to you? Send in your fire poems today before midnight tonight. 3-5 unpublished poems to rachelnmjudith@gmail.com

זכור: Women Poets of the Holocaust Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

At Judith this week read the words that survived the Holocaust, even if the poets who wrote them did not.

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For Holocaust Remembrance Day here is my translation of a poem by Abba Kovner that has recently appeared in @rhinopoetry.bsky.social

The Magic of the Aleph-Bet: Introducing the Poetry of Rachel Custer Anyone who has attended Hebrew School knows that there is something magical about the Hebrew letters.

Happy Passover from Judith Poetry!

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This week at Judith Poetry a preview of four poems from Parallax, Julia Kolchinsky's newest book due out from U of Arkansas Press on March 14th!

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Humanizing Mitzvot Through Poetry - Ritualwell Discover your connection to powerful mitzvot through the exploration of ancient and modern poetry. Create your own poems inspired by our reading, discussions and personal reflection.

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How does a mitzvah become a poem, become a personal poem and renewed joy in the mitzvah?

Poems “can create new spaces in our interiors,” writes Garth Greenwell, “giving language to something that was mute before and generating something new”

Join me to create something new. Link below

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oin us at Ritualwell this March. This will be a generative poetry workshop on humanizing the mitzvot through poetry.

Join us for this four week immersion!

This week at Judith--new poetry by Deborah Bacharach

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For years and years I have dreamt of having my name in Plume Poetry. How completely exciting that it is as a translator of the remarkable poems of Holocaust poet Abba Kovner.

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"A Failed Synonym For Love:" Introducing the Poetry of Marc Alan Di Martino I was born in the shadow of the Holocaust; as a child it was all around me.

Its been a difficult day in a difficult time. Let's read some poems. Here is poetry by Marc Alan Di Martino. Light in the darkness. Its all we have.

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Three Poems by Abba Kovner translated by Rachel Neve-Midbar - The Los Angeles Review In the Blue Mist In the blue mist of an abandoned night highway between the beauty of the Givat Chaim mountains  suffused into a single silhouette against the night sky  and suddenly from the right th...

On this day, Holocaust Remembrance Day, here are three of Abba Kovner's poems published last year by the amazing Francesca Bell, Poet at The LA Review.

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Can you imagine that for 471 days, you never see the sunset or even the sky? And, all of a sudden, on day 472, you can? I hope one of the three hostages released yesterday stepped outside or stood at a hospital window and watched this beautiful sight. May all be free to watch the sunset. It's time.

On the Eighth Day of Chanukah We Enter 2025: the Light of Being Human What I love most about poetry prompts is the way the prompt mixes with the personality of each poet to create something altogether new and remarkable.

As we bid farewell to Chanukah 5785, we welcome 2025 and at Judith we celebrate Light in the Darkness. Happy New Year!

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The First Light of Chanukah: Introducing the Poetry of Joy Ladin “Take the candle.” the therapist tells me, “Carry it into your deepest body and shine the light in the hidden places, in the painful places.” My eyes are closed; my feet have been firmly grounded and ...

This week's poetry at Judith, its my honor to share the poetry of Joy Ladin
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One more day to submit

The Natural World Explored: Introducing the Poetry of Deborah Leipziger Welcome to the sensual world—the world of Deborah Leipziger’s poems, where the natural is born in the body, in the earth, in religion, in the mind and in the poet’s imagination.

This week's Poetry offering at Judith Magazine
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