Poetica Magazine Contemporary Jewish Writing

Poetica Magazine - 2022 Edition

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“On Rembrandt’s ‘Moses

with the Tablets of the Law’”

by Steven Shankman

"Tailor"
by Charlene Stegman Moskal

"Blessings"

by Valerie Bacharach

"Poem of an End"

by Shai Afsai

“A change is gonna come”

Fenceposts of History, Repeating

by Alexandra Burack

"Border-Crosser"

"Leftover Kugel"

by Gary Grossman

by Michele Wolf

"Letter, Be (Bateau Ivrit )"

by Lynne Bermont

"Transition hendecapoem"
by Alessio Zanelli

"I Sit Shiva for the Village
Who Raised Me"

by Jen Karetnick

"The Witch of Endor"

by William Miller

by Elizabeth Ehrlich

"Visiting the Iniquity'

"I’m Preparing My Body for Your Birth"

by Maya Bernstein

"On Moonmilk (Korolowka, 1943-2022)

by Alexander Hollenberg

by Uri Rosenshine

"Tea, Please"
"The Rabbi and the Fox"
by Kenneth Kapp

"My Grandmother
Dated Russian Boys"
by Madlynn Haber

"The Vagaries of Empathy"

by Arthur McMaster

"Yiddish Is Not the Language of the Dead"
by Barbara Krasner

"Stripped Down"
by Marge Piercy

"Elegy for my Poetry Friends"

by Lynne D. Soulagnet

"A Reason for Being"
by Linda McCullough Moore

"Manna"
By John C. Mannone

"Reluctant Rogue Redo?"
by Mark Stucky

"In the Last Days of the House of Song"
by Richard Rosengarten

"Is it Good for the Jews?
(An Abecedarian)"
by Devon Balwit

"The Message, Pittsburgh 2013"

"He Dreams of Giotto,
Dreams of Vitebsk"

"We Take On"
by Michael Getty

"Silence in Sinai"
by Paul Z. Panish

"Feast of Tabernacles"

"Bookend"
by Nancy Naomi Carlson

"Descanso"
by Jessica de Koninck

"Thirst"
by Amy Small-McKinney

"Waiting in 1943"