poetry
Passover begins Friday night: A rabbi’s poetic reflection on freedom
April 21, 2016The eight-day Jewish festival of Passover begins Friday night in the Jewish year 5776.
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This week in women’s history: Poet-novelist-activist Marge Piercy turns 80
March 28, 2016Piercy has written 17 novels, including bestsellers, and 19 volumes of poetry.
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American Grace
November 25, 2015This poem/prayer was originally published in People's Weekly World in March 2006.
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Remembering poet, Spanish Civil War vet Ramon Durem
November 3, 2015Although of mixed heritage, he identified as African American, and his poems impacted the Black Power movement as a cultural inspiration.
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Today in history: Chilean communist poet Pablo Neruda wins Nobel Prize
October 21, 2015Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams."
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