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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Sep 14

Call for Submissions Last call for submissions! Send 3-5 poems to [email protected] today

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Call for Submissions

Poetry as Prayer: A High-Holiday Folio at Calul Journal is calling for submissions.This Substack is reader-supported.

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Jul 18

In these sad and scary days, this feature by the great poet and photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher in Calul Journal brings me comfort. I hope it does you too.

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The Substance of Grief: Introducing the Poetry and the Photography of Alexis Rhone Fancher

On Easter Monday 2025 the poet and photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher lost her sister Debra to cancer.

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Jul 8

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This week at Calul Journal John Benditt's are featured where John's poems are displayed with paintings by Pablo Picasso.

Read the feature here and subscribe to Calul Journal for beautiful free poetry delivered into your inbox every Sunday

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The Steps of Life: Introducing the poetry of John Benditt

As soon as I read the poetry of John Benditt, I thought of cubism and the paintings of Pablo Picasso.

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Jul 3

Deep body poetry is the poetry of the disabled body, the queer & trans body and the menstruating body.The workshop will start on July 10th and will run for 4 weeks. The class can be taken asynchronistically. Come write with us!!
Register Today
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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Jun 24

The inaugural post of Calul is up! We are a Jewish journal, but we welcome all poets from all walks of life. Calul is Hebrew for inclusivity and that is what I hope the journal will stand for, for bridges, for friendships, for the very human in every poem.
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God Looked Into the Torah and Created the World: Introducing the Poetry of Dan Alter

No, I’m not going to write about ceasefires or foul-mouthed presidents.

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Jun 20

How do we bring wonder into terrible times? Through poetry.
In answer to these dark days 15 women poets bring us their "souls on the page" in poems about This Moment.

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Jun 16

**URGENT** Timely Request --THIS MOMENT--

These are unprecedented times

What are you thinking about? What is important to you in THIS MOMENT?

Send me 3-5 original unpublished poems (no political rants please--go deep) to [email protected]
send your best poems

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · May 22

This week at Judith Poetry. When there are no words, at least there are poems...

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Still We Have Poems: Introducing the Poetry of Bill Freedman

Children are dying.

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · May 15

This week at Judith Poetry, the many faces of FIRE!

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FIRE!

On this the eve of Lag B’Omer, the holiday of fire on our Jewish calendar, we at Judith offer you an entire folio of poems that deal with the heat, the flame, the many passions of fire.

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · May 14

Come Write About the Deep Body!
Join our workshop.
Four Sundays through May and June.
Intimate & safe space to write the stories you have been carrying all this time.

Register today!

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · May 11

What does fire mean to you? Send in your fire poems today before midnight tonight. 3-5 unpublished poems to [email protected]

Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Apr 24

At Judith this week read the words that survived the Holocaust, even if the poets who wrote them did not.

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זכור: Women Poets of the Holocaust

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Apr 24

thank you for sharing!!

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Apr 23

For Holocaust Remembrance Day here is my translation of a poem by Abba Kovner that has recently appeared in @rhinopoetry.bsky.social

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Apr 10

Happy Passover from Judith Poetry!

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The Magic of the Aleph-Bet: Introducing the Poetry of Rachel Custer

Anyone who has attended Hebrew School knows that there is something magical about the Hebrew letters.

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Feb 27

This week at Judith Poetry a preview of four poems from Parallax, Julia Kolchinsky's newest book due out from U of Arkansas Press on March 14th!

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Feb 17

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Humanizing Mitzvot Through Poetry - Ritualwell

Discover your connection to powerful mitzvot through the exploration of ancient and modern poetry. Create your own poems inspired by our reading, discussions and personal reflection.

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Feb 17

How does a mitzvah become a poem, become a personal poem and renewed joy in the mitzvah?

Poems “can create new spaces in our interiors,” writes Garth Greenwell, “giving language to something that was mute before and generating something new”

Join me to create something new. Link below

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Feb 14

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Feb 7

oin us at Ritualwell this March. This will be a generative poetry workshop on humanizing the mitzvot through poetry.

Join us for this four week immersion!

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Feb 6

This week at Judith--new poetry by Deborah Bacharach

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Feb 3

For years and years I have dreamt of having my name in Plume Poetry. How completely exciting that it is as a translator of the remarkable poems of Holocaust poet Abba Kovner.

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Jan 30

Its been a difficult day in a difficult time. Let's read some poems. Here is poetry by Marc Alan Di Martino. Light in the darkness. Its all we have.

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"A Failed Synonym For Love:" Introducing the Poetry of Marc Alan Di Martino

I was born in the shadow of the Holocaust; as a child it was all around me.

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Jan 27

On this day, Holocaust Remembrance Day, here are three of Abba Kovner's poems published last year by the amazing Francesca Bell, Poet at The LA Review.

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Three Poems by Abba Kovner translated by Rachel Neve-Midbar - The Los Angeles Review

In the Blue Mist In the blue mist of an abandoned night highway between the beauty of the Givat Chaim mountains suffused into a single silhouette against the night sky and suddenly from the right th...

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Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar @rachelnm.bsky.social · Jan 20

Can you imagine that for 471 days, you never see the sunset or even the sky? And, all of a sudden, on day 472, you can? I hope one of the three hostages released yesterday stepped outside or stood at a hospital window and watched this beautiful sight. May all be free to watch the sunset. It's time.

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