Holiday Song

 

Thanks to Colorado Review and Furniture Press Books, in which this poem appeared.

2020 Akron Poetry Prize

Honored that my book, Lately, was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Akron Poetry Prize. Congratulations to Aimee Seu and the entire list of finalists and semi-finalists.

New Poems in Columbia Poetry Review

Pleased as punch to have four poems in the amazing new issue of Columbia Poetry Review. You're going to want to read the issue straight through...

New Poems in Kestrel

 Grateful to have three poems included in the new issue of Kestrel.

Here's one of them:

 

Silk Road

 

In the burnished tree

what cold branches

now stare down

and are affixed

with the last of snow

for winter’s just a metaphor

for the kind of loss

we figure on—

forgive me,

friends.

Best of the Net Nomination

Honored to have a Best of the Net Nomination from Mark Danowski's One Art 

Boston Poetry Marathon

(Video on YouTube)

Looking forward to reading and listening. Join us!

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New Poems on One Art

I'm happy to have new poems from my manuscript, Lately, up on Mark Danowsky's journal, One Art. 

 

Here's one of them:

 

Small Things

get to you
wherever you are you are
whether or not you leave
you leave—
this flowering triangle
will come to nothing
if you’re not steadfast
or true. Be the wind
in sail. All precious
metals.

 

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And stay well, everyone.

Much love,
Ethel

2019 National Jewish Book Awards Announced

Congratulations to the winner and finalists of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in poetry: Ilya Kaminsky, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Yonatan Berg (translator Joanna Chen), and Rachel Zucker. It was an honor to serve as one of this year's judges. Click here for the full list of NJBA recipients: http://bit.ly/2NsQIfk

New Poem

Everywhere We Went

that summer there was ice-cream—
blueberry with butter cookie
raspberry with chocolate crumb—
while bombs kept falling
while streets drizzled with blood
someone had colluded
someone had ordered it so
while we were happy
as happy as we could be
given the unpredictable temperatures
given our need to be free.

Forthcoming in Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest, from Stockton University Press, edited by Ona Gritz and Taylor Carmen Savatz