Poets of Babel – Shoshana Sarah

Gifting Myself

All I know is, I promise to heed my inner compass, trust myself, bring my fire.

These days we are all a bit confused. In English, “confusion” is one way to translate “Babel” but it also means “a mixture of sounds and voices” and that’s what Poets of Babel, the multilingual poetry club that I created, is about. I could say it all started, after talking the night away on theContinue reading “The Babel in Us”

We are a threat to the national identity

In addition to my beloved Poets of Babel, I’ve started a new page called “We are a threat to the national identity.” It was an impromptu reaction to this article about the ban of a book (Borderlife by Dorit Rabinyan) in which there is a Jewish-Palestinian love affair. But honestly, this is really the resultContinue reading “We are a threat to the national identity”

LET’S GET LIT: Babbling towards Baghdad (My First Radio Interview!)

I know, I know, I haven’t been around. But I’ve been studying poetry, falling in love lyric essay, being awaken at night by the muse. But now that the semester– and my first year of studying poetry– is over I’m getting busy again. Before I could fully get my foot out the door ofContinue reading “LET’S GET LIT: Babbling towards Baghdad (My First Radio Interview!)”

Update: New Pages, such as Poetry Reading Videos

I don’t know if any of you have noticed but I’ve been updating pages on my site with photos and videos of poetry readings and performances…drop menus! (It was exciting for me because it took me forever to figure out how to do it. You can remain unimpressed. I’ll understand.) Just to give you aContinue reading “Update: New Pages, such as Poetry Reading Videos”

Poets of Babel #14 at the Jerusalem Cinematheque

I’ve got almost a month of events to catch you up on! But we’ll do this in chronological order. If you haven’t seen it on Poets of Babel’s Facebook page, here are the videos from the poetry readings June 24th, 2013 (Late, I know! But when you see the rest of what I’ve been doing,Continue reading “Poets of Babel #14 at the Jerusalem Cinematheque”

See For Yourself~Poets of Babel’s 1st Anniversary Videos

It took me a while, perhaps too long, but I have still abided by my old rule of sharing “before the next event,” which will be next Monday, June 24th. Instead of telling you how it was, I’m just going to let you listen for yourself. It’ll be almost like you didn’t miss a thing.Continue reading “See For Yourself~Poets of Babel’s 1st Anniversary Videos”

Poets of Babel’s Rebirth: 1 Year Anniversary at the Jerusalem Cinematheque and Beyond

Poets of Babel is metamorphosing into a larger, less familiar creature. It started in my home with only two rules: (1) Read in any language as long as there was someone who understood (bring a friend!) and (2) Everyone participates. I had to break rule number one very early on. Sometimes there was only oneContinue reading “Poets of Babel’s Rebirth: 1 Year Anniversary at the Jerusalem Cinematheque and Beyond”

Merħba to Poets of Babel

I believe in messages from the universe. At least over a year ago, I decided that I wanted to start a poetry club. Then, I did nothing…until today. Last Thursday, I met with two of the most awesome people I know, Marc, a former break dancer/polyglot MC turned design engineer and Nadine, a jeweler whoContinue reading “Merħba to Poets of Babel”