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A Note to Readers: For those of you who visit the Berkshires — or are considering doing so — you might consider stopping in at the Good Purpose Gallery, Main Street, Lee, MA, on Thursday, October 16th. Our Poetry Editor, Irene Willis, and another poet, Jim Kelleher, will be reading from their own work at […]

Norma Sheard Born in Harlingen, New Jersey, a small rural town near Princeton, Norma Sheard began writing as a young girl. Her topics drew upon the landscape of farm and family life, as they do now. A regular contributor to the rich poetry community in and around Princeton, she now lives on Deer Isle, Maine, […]

What does YIVO want for its birthday? Your ideas! We’ll tell you a secret. In 2015, YIVO turns 90. Yes, it’s a big birthday, and we’re proud of our work through the years, including some of the exciting things we’ve been working on in just this last year: The Vilna Project, Letters to Afar, the […]

Taras Shevchenko: Ukrainian Nationalism, Poetry, and the Jews Tuesday, September 30 | 7:00pm Panel Purchase tickets On Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko’s bicentennial, distinguished literary scholars Gennady Estraikh (NYU; YIVO), Peter Fedynsky, Amelia Glaser, and Myroslav Shkandrij discuss Shevchenko’s impact on Jewish intellectuals, Ukrainian-Jewish collaboration, and the relationship between poetry and politics. Read more… This program […]

Please join us in welcoming Professor Gennady Estraikh of New York University as the first Albert B. Ratner Visiting Scholar in East European Jewish Literature. While in residence at YIVO, he will moderate a public panel on Taras Shevchenko, give a lecture on American Jewish Communist novelist Howard Fast, and teach a course on modernist […]

Abraham Sutzkever: The Power in Poetry Wednesday, September 10 | 7:00pm The Annual Naomi Prawer Kadar Memorial Lecture Ruth Wisse, Professor Emerita, Harvard University RSVP  The Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever came of age in Vilna in the 1920s and 30s when Yiddish poetry was the favored creative outlet of its Jewish youth. For him, poetry-but only […]

Eugene Mahon Welcome back from vacation, everyone, and Happy Labor Day! Given what has been happening to labor lately, there’s too much to say about that here, so it will have to be left to the editorial pages. Meanwhile, here is our September poet, Eugene Mahon. Many of you who know Eugene Mahon professionally may not realize that […]

Song of the Murdered Jewish People: Looking for the “Real” Yitzkhak Katzenelson Poet and playwright Yitzkhak Katzenelson (1885-1944) was known chiefly for his work in Hebrew before World War II, especially in Lodz, where he helped found Ha-Bamah ha-’Ivrit (The Hebrew Stage) Theater Company. But when he was incarcerated in the Warsaw Ghetto, he turned […]

  Chris Waters We’re especially delighted this month to bring you a poet from outside the borders of the U.S. Chris Waters, of Devon, U.K., is a free-lance poet/tutor/storyteller who has worked extensively across southwest England with young and adult groups and audiences. Although performance is his forte, he is equally good on the  age, as […]

If any of you are planning to be in the Berkshires this month, our Poetry Editor, Irene Willis, will be reading and signing books, together with another Poetry Monday poet, Karen Chase,  at the Stanmeyer Gallery/Shaker Dam Coffee House, 2 West  Main Street, West Stockbridge. It’s on Thursday, August 14th,  at 7:30 p.m.  The reading is co-sponsored by […]