Essays, Poetry & More

On Home & Exile | On Poems and Poetry | On Spirit, on Soul | On Contemplative Teaching | On Faith in Arts | Poems

Following are links to some essays, talks, and conversations that might be of interest to you. Please use the links above to visit each section. You can find many more short essays at Slant Book’s “Close Reading” and Image’s “Good Letters.”

On Home & Exile——————

Circumcision Does it To Us

“Home, the Supreme Fiction”

What are we Doing Here?

Whatever We Imagine Is Home

On Poems & Poetry——————

Dancing with Words During

National Poetry Month

The Dead Don’t Get Around Much Anymore

Receiving “What Is”

Sonia Sanchez Made

Me a Jewish Poet;

Rhonda Magee Helped

These Splendid Days

Happiness, Something Little

A Pity. We Were Such A Good

Who Gives Sight to the Blind

On Spirit, On Soul———

Praying with the Body

08.07.2019

What Else to Call It but Love, 03.17.2022

Erasure as a Spiritual Practice

09.24.2020

Original Language,

06.08.2020

01. 14. 2021

Word: I Dwell in the House of God

Image, Issue 75

Traveling Through These Days of Awe

On Contemplative Teaching——————

By Heart: for the work of getting a grip on certain fragile things

Spring 2020

You Must be Present to Learn, from Good Letters, August 10, 2016

My Wish for My Students, from Good Letters, November 19, 2015

Girl Meets God in the Classroom, part 1, January 7, 2015

Girl Meets God in the Classroom, part 2, January 8, 2015

The Sabbath and Liberal Arts Education, part 1, October 31, 2013

The Sabbath and Liberal Arts Education, Part 2, November 27, 2013

The Sabbath and Liberal Arts Education, Part 3, December 11, 2013

On Faith In Arts——————

Faith in Arts: A Conversation with Rick Chess, Spring 2021

Faith in Arts: A Conversation with Norman Fischer, Spring 2021

Faith in Arts: A Conversation with Rodger Kamenetz, Spring 2022

Poems——————

“Third Temple,” Forward, October 14, 2010

“Variations on a Theme by Wiesel,” Zeek, March 2007

“With the Blast of the Ram’s Horn”

“The Loneliest Monk Listens,” The Sun, April 2025

“The Loneliest Monk: By the Book, Vita Poetica, Summer 2024