The Writer’s Center welcomes more than a dozen poets to celebrate the release of 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium, a new anthology edited by Matthew E. Silverman and long-time TWC instructor Nancy Naomi Carlson.
“Traditional and radical, secular and holy, the poems in 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium come to us just as we need them. The poets here celebrate a culture and caution against hatred, all the while making incredible art. Silverman and Carlson have gathered a stellar and diverse group of poets and poetic visions.” –Denise Duhamel
RSVP below, and you’ll receive an email on or before March 21 with instructions for joining the chat via our video conferencing platform, Zoom. FREE and open to the public, all times Eastern. Limited space.
We encourage you to order a copy of the book online or from your local, independent bookseller.
The Poets
- Nancy Naomi Carlson, twice an NEA literature translation fellow, authored An Infusion of Violets (Seagull, 2019)—named “New & Noteworthy” by the New York Times.
- Doritt Carroll is an attorney from Washington, DC. She recently won the Laura Lee Washburn chapbook prize from Harbor Review.
- David Ebenbach is the author of the poetry collection Some Unimaginable Animal and seven other books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.
- Robert L. Giron, poet/writer, has work in national and international anthologies. He’s editor-in-chief of ArLiJo and founder/publisher of Gival Press.
- Barbara Goldberg is Series Editor, International Editions, of the Word Works. Her new and selected poems, Breaking & Entering, is forthcoming.
- Roger Greenwald’s recent books of poems: Slow Mountain Train and The Half-Life (Tiger Bark Press). He won the 2018 Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Prize (Exile Magazine). rogergreenwald.org
- W. Luther Jett is the author of three poetry chapbooks, Not Quite: Poems Written in Search of My Father; Our Situation; and Everyone Disappears.
- Helene Krauthamer teaches English (not creative writing, though!) at the University of the District of Columbia and has been writing poetry since third grade.
- Merrill Leffler’s most recent book of poetry is Mark the Music. The publisher of Dryad Press, he was Takoma Park, Maryland’s Poet Laureate from 2011-2018.
- Yvette Neisser is the author of Grip (2011 Gival Press Poetry Award), a Spanish poetry translator, and founder of the DC-Area Literary Translators Network (DC-ALT).
- Jean Nordhaus’s 6 volumes of poetry include Memos from the Broken World, The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn, Innocence, and My Life in Hiding.
- Linda Pastan’s 14th book, Insomnia, was published in 2015 and won The Towson University Prize for Literature. In 2003 she won the Ruth Lilly Prize for lifetime achievement.
- Kim Roberts is editor of By Broad Potomac’s Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of Our Nation’s Capital, and author of five poetry books.
- Michael Salcman, MD: anthology Poetry in Medicine (2015); poetry The Clock Made of Confetti (2007); and Shades & Graces (2020), inaugural winner of The Daniel Hoffman Legacy Book Prize.
- Mark Everet Siegel, retired professor of psychology, has written poetry for decades, without the goal of publication. Legally blind since 12, he now studies and plays guitar.
- M.E. Silverman, former editor of the Blue Lyra Review, has authored The Floating Door and The Breath before Birds Fly. Co-editor of three Jewish anthologies, his poems have appeared in over eighty journals. mesilverman.org
- Myra Sklarew, emerita professor, founder of the MFA Program, AU; former president, Yaddo Artists’ Community; National Jewish Book Award 1977; A Survivor Named Trauma 2020.
- Katherine Smith’s publications include appearances in Boulevard, North American Review, Cincinnati Review, Missouri Review, Ploughshares, Southern Review, as well as two books of poetry.
- Pia Taavila-Borsheim, PhD. Moon on the Meadow: Collected Poems, 2008; Two Winters, 2011; Mother Mail, 2017; Love Poems, 2018; Above the Birch Line, 2021.