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New Jewish poetry
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November 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Join us this afternoon at 3 pm Eastern for an online poetry reading and conversation featuring Atar Hadari, Matthew Lippman, & Maxim D. Shrayer

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A Poetry Reading and Conversation featuring Atar Hadari, Matthew Lippman, & Maxim D. Shrayer
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November 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Join us Sunday at 3 pm Eastern for an online poetry reading and conversation featuring Atar Hadari, Matthew Lippman, & Maxim D. Shrayer, featuring new volumes focusing on the post-10/7 Diaspora experience and the life of Ariel Sharon

October 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Join us Sunday at 3 pm Eastern for an online poetry reading and conversation featuring Atar Hadari, Matthew Lippman, & Maxim D. Shrayer

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October 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Join us this afternoon at 3 pm Eastern for an online poetry reading and conversation featuring Genevieve Greinetz, Baruch November, & Donna Spruijt-Metz.

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featuring Genevieve Greinetz, Baruch November, & Donna Spruijt-Metz
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October 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Join us Sunday, 10/26, at 3 pm Eastern for an online poetry reading and conversation featuring Genevieve Greinetz, Baruch November, & Donna Spruijt-Metz.

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October 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Our Simchat Torah sale is underway. Save 25% on all our parsha titles: prose, poetry, and pictures; the serious, the silly, and the interactive. www.benyehudapress.c...
October 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Two new timely books of poetry. "King of the Jews" by Matthew Lippman captures the experience of mourning for 10/7 and fearing for the fate of the hostages from abroad.
September 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A New Year is dawning, may it be for the good, and with it lengthy synagogue stays. Now is the time to pick up shul reading, so we're running a sale: Save 20% on one book, 30% on two or three, and 40% on four or more.
September 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Continuing our series of bilingual poetry translations, "Wu Wei Eats an Egg" presents Dutch poet Lucas Hirsch in English carefully rendered by Donna Spruijt-Metz.

*Wu wei eats an egg*

What always was, is, and will be
cracks an egg
on the edge
of a frying pan

Acts according to the nature
September 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just published: "Zion Square," the new poetry collection from Maxim D. Shrayer. Available direct from Ben Yehuda Press and the usual places.

*Zion Square*

In the earthly city of Jerusalem I like to stay
just a couple of blocks from Kikar HaMusica
in Yo’el Moshe Salomon Street, a pathway
August 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Just published: "The Broken Heart is the Master Key," the new poetry collection from Baruch November (@bnovember). Introduction by Alicia Ostriker. Available direct from Ben Yehuda Press and the usual places.
August 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
We are proud to be launching three new poetry titles this month:

Wu Wei Eats an Egg by Lucas Hirsch, translated from the Dutch by @dsmpoet.bsky.social

The Broken Heart is the Master Key by Baruch November

Zion Square, by Maxim D. Shrayer
August 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Vanessa De Loya Stauber's POÉSIE ORGANIQUE / ORGANIC POETRY is one of our latest poetry releases. You can order it now!

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July 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Noah Berlatsky's 1st collection of poetry, *Not Akhmatova* is a collection of quasi translations, appropriations, and arguments with the poetry of Anna Akhmatova in the context of Jewish diaspora.

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June 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
A little thread of music by Jewish-American guitarist Marc Ribot, starting with his classic "Yo! I Killed Your God"

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Yo! I Killed Your God
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June 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Sally Priesand, the first ordained American woman rabbi, was born on this day in 1946. She's one of our HEROES WITH CHUTZPAH!

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June 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The JBI (former Jewish Braille Institute) has sponsored audio recordings of two Jewish Poetry Project titles: Rodger Kamenetz's THE MISSING JEW and Maya Bernstein's NO PLACE WITHOUT YOU.

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June 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A poem for sunday by Jewish-American poet Hadara Bar-Nadav .
June 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
R. B. Lemberg's EVERYTHING THAWS is a poetric cycle and memoir "suspended between Ukraine and the permafrost of Siberia, among the traumatized, silent, persecuted members of their Jewish family."

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June 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Ilya Gutner's book of poems WALKING TRIPTYCHS: SHANGHAI POEMS is a series of poems written walking around Shanghai and thinking about the Holocaust and its legacy.
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June 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Attached is the poem "Today" by Rosa Nevadovska (1890-1971), translated by Merle L. Bachman from the Yiddish.

Bachman's translation of Nevadovska's poems, *So Many Warm Words* is published by Ben Yehuda Press in a bilingual translation.

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June 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Billy Joel, one of the most successful Jewish poets/songwriters of the past decades, has announced he is ill and is no longer planning to tour. Thought we'd do a short thread in tribute.

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Billy Joel - Piano Man (Original Video)
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June 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Lori Levy's poetry collection *Feet In L.A., But My Womb Lives In Jerusalem, My Breath In Vermont* merges nostalgia and carpe diem as she recalls important stations of her journeys between Vermont, Israel, and California.

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June 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak was born on this date in 1928. He's one of our HEROES WITH CHUTZPAH!

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June 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM