Letters have been around since wooden tablets, pottery, animal skin, and papyrus. They have played a valuable role in writing as an art form throughout history. The drive to address another whether friend, foe, or lover is a deeply human and ancient one. How does addressing another, or even ourselves, inform our creative process? How does the possibility of a correspondence or exchange influence our writing? How do letters transcend time and place?
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The Compass and The Map: Ikigai Bio
At the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance I have a class called “The Compass and the Map.” If you know anything about me, you know that I loved it in advance just based on the name alone. Also the course revolves around Ikigai and the four pillars model: what you love, what you areContinue reading “The Compass and The Map: Ikigai Bio”
Book Review: Nestuary by Molly Sutton Kiefer
Many moons ago, I wrote a book review, my very first one, that was published in Entropy Magazine. I searched for it recently and found that it had disappeared, the link no longer functional. Later, I discovered the journal shut down in 2021 and deleted its website and archives. I’d love to keep this reviewContinue reading “Book Review: Nestuary by Molly Sutton Kiefer”
I’m Back!
I want to show you all the ways I’ve been learning how to shine.
The Point of a Compass
I left home before graduation and moved in with him when I was seventeen. My mother called the police and said he was “harboring a minor.” The police car picked me up at his apartment to take me home. I went back the next day. She also took my passport. I reported it as stolen, and he bought me a new one. We went to the courthouse on my 18th birthday and signed the marriage certificate. A month later, we were on a plane to Israel.
The first compasses did not always point north. Early compasses pointed east.
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”
Split in Two: between Gifts and Blind Fury
“Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.” ~ Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death “Fame in theContinue reading “Split in Two: between Gifts and Blind Fury”
Because the Poets are Healers
This is just a piece of what’s going on in the world. 276 Nigerian girls kidnapped, three Israeli boys kidnapped and murdered, a Palestinian boy kidnapped and murdered, burned alive. I live in Jerusalem, so the latter is more poignant; there has been rioting, violence,Continue reading “Because the Poets are Healers”
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!)”
The First Poets of Babel Meeting! (…was 3 months ago!)
Four months and 16 days later, the first meeting of Poets of Babel has finally taken place and it was amazing. We were only 7, but then again 7 is the number of perfection. Ira, a Russian Israeli and Hebrew teacher arrived first. I met Ira at Hillel House in 2008 when I made myContinue reading “The First Poets of Babel Meeting! (…was 3 months ago!)”
Shoshana Sarah 