Poetry
Metula's Israeli Poets’ Festival returns to Jerusalem with all disciplinary guns blazing
If your idea of poetry is a neatly rhyming ditty, attending the festival should thoroughly disabuse you of that constricted notion and open up broad new vistas for your literary epiphany enjoyment.
Voices Israel anthology 2025: Celebrating English poetry shaped by war, love, and memory
Israeli lyricist Tzruya Lahav dies at 74 after cancer battle
Wedding invitation from 1955: A stroll through cherished memories - opinion
Jerusalem tributes Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca for Sukkot
Tribute evening to Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca at the Jerusalem Confederation House’s Ushpizin Poetry & Song Festival.
No longer going gently: Israel’s new resolve in the face of Hezbollah
Israel will not go gently into that good night, but what does that entail?
Jewish Life Stories: Hettie Jones, one half of a Beat generation power couple, dies at 90
Hettie Jones, Jewish poet has passed away at the age of 90.
Israeli Poets' Festival moves to Jerusalem
The Israeli Poets’ Festival moves from Metulla to Jerusalem and offers a literary take on our current challenges.
'The Dove That Didn’t Return': A soldier’s experiences - review
Written from the gut, Hacohen's poetry can resonate with anyone, regardless of political viewpoints.
A century of poetry: Lauded poet Yehuda Amichai gets a posthumous centenary salute or two
The musical entertainment will be completed by a talk by Amichai’s daughter, Emanuela Amichai, who will speak about her father’s life and work.
Bar Sagi: The late Israeli teen poet who died of bone cancer
During her last years, Bar Sagi wrote 25 poems documenting her journey, her illness, and her remarkable life force. This collection was published posthumously as See Me Soar and Spread My Wings.
'Courageous Chicken': Ba'al teshuva goes warrior chicken - review
Themes of failure, insecurity, courage, rising to new heights, and self-confidence are explored throughout this book.
Mourning Bnayahu Biton, a musician and poet killed on October 7
On Oct. 7, at age 22, Bnayahu was murdered at the Supernova music festival. Two months earlier, he had completed three years of army service.
Poetry: Post-October 7, we need to rekindle our imagination
As the Israelites celebrated their safe crossing of the Sea of Reeds with a song/poem, Shirat HaYam, we might use a poem as a guide for moving through the narrow place in which we find ourselves.
