Once again, a true stunner of reviews from Jesse van Eerden for unalone by Jessica Jacobs

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read the gorgeous here: buff.ly/4av9rzA

We'll be reaching out to members to hear how we can best serve our Jewish poetry community, and we hope you'll consider joining today if you'd like to be part of this process.
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We're so grateful that, since we launched the Yetzirah membership program in September, 199 poets and supporters have joined.

Wow - this is an incredible interview with Yetzirah Conference Scholar Hila Ratzabi - she discusses Jewish ecopoetry in depth, including poems by Rokhl Korn, Jessica Jacobs, Mónica Gomery, and much more!

terrain.org/2024/interview…

A couple more weeks to polish your fabulous poems and submit them to the 2024 Adrienne Rich Award!

As always, the BPJ offers a fee-free option if the reading fee presents a hardship.

You know what to do! More info at bpj.org/submit/rich-aw…

Dear Nashville folks, please join us here at Belmont University on Tuesday, April 23rd at 7pm, as we host Philip Metres فيليب أبورجيلي for a poetry reading. Free and open to the public. Parking available in the underground garage beneath the Ayers Building.

This week's featured poet is Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917-1945), a Polish-Jewish poet of the interwar period.

Lovely company.

UNALONE's interfaith journeys continue in this omnibus review in America Magazine: The Jesuit Review celebrating the new books of so many admired friends, including Philip Metres فيليب أبورجيلي, Scott Cairns, Spencer Reece, and Bruce Beasley.

Find all the reviews here: linktr.ee/jessica.jacobs

'Jacobs draws up personal and timeless communal experience, but also the anxieties and difficulties of our particular 2024 moment: a culture deeply divided, a climate in crisis.'

What a gift to be read so closely and generously by a writer I deeply admire.

Excellent talk on writing poems connected to Genesis with Aviya Kushner and Jessica Jacobs at Calvin Center for Faith & Writing

This Sunday, April 14, we'll hold the final reading of this Yetzirah Reading Series season, featuring Matthew Lippman, Nomi Stone, and Rachel Mennies, hosted by Jehanne Dubrow.

To register for the reading, and more, check out our latest newsletter: bit.ly/4azWsfZ

Looking fwd. to two events at the Festival of Faith & Writing in Grand Rapids, MI! Tomorrow at 3 I'll be in convo w/Jessica Jacobs about reading the Book of Genesis & her beautiful new book UNALONE. Friday @ 11 I'll be speaking about 'Isaiah and Power'. Calvin Center for Faith & Writing Orison Books

'Yours is a very human collection, exploring our place in this world but also our responsibility to it.' -@dianegotauthor interviews Jessica Jacobs for @the_rumpus

Read it here: buff.ly/3VGI0OM

In case you missed this, DON'T MISS THIS! Let Every Fence Have a Gate: Diane Gottlieb in conversation with Jessica Jacobs therumpus.net/2024/04/01/jes… via @the_rumpus

'Franklin reminds us that Tragedy may be the most appropriate response to tragedy in this fierce and accomplished work.'
- Karin Falcone Krieger

Wonderful new review of IF SOME GOD SHAKES YOUR HOUSE by @JFranklinpoetry from the Colorado Review : coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/if-som…

Congratulations to Susan Rich on BLUE ATLAS, which Diane Seuss writes 'exquisitely performs the way trauma—the utter loss of self-determination, of choice—can turn a life to seawater, to drift, to ‘somehow, the might still be—’'

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And in the middle of war kids are writing poems.

Friends: for those of you who have made donations—here are photos that show the good things your money is doing in Odesa, Ukraine.

Philly! UNALONE gets to go all the best places.❤️

Even if I’m missing my time on North Carolina porches, I’m grateful UNALONE is there to enjoy the spring weather.