Dr. Rachel Neve-Midbar
@rachelnm.bsky.social
Poet and essayist @USC_CWPhD, author of Salaam of Birds; editor of Stained (@PressQuerencia 2023) #stainedanthology, Fulbright Scholar 2023-2025 translating Holocaust poet Abba Kovner, #Fulbrightscholar
Call for Submissions Last call for submissions! Send 3-5 poems to caluljournal@gmail.com today
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Call for Submissions
Poetry as Prayer: A High-Holiday Folio at Calul Journal is calling for submissions.This Substack is reader-supported.
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September 14, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Call for Submissions Last call for submissions! Send 3-5 poems to caluljournal@gmail.com today
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In these sad and scary days, this feature by the great poet and photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher in Calul Journal brings me comfort. I hope it does you too.
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The Substance of Grief: Introducing the Poetry and the Photography of Alexis Rhone Fancher
On Easter Monday 2025 the poet and photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher lost her sister Debra to cancer.
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July 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
In these sad and scary days, this feature by the great poet and photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher in Calul Journal brings me comfort. I hope it does you too.
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This week at Calul Journal John Benditt's are featured where John's poems are displayed with paintings by Pablo Picasso.
Read the feature here and subscribe to Calul Journal for beautiful free poetry delivered into your inbox every Sunday
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This week at Calul Journal John Benditt's are featured where John's poems are displayed with paintings by Pablo Picasso.
Read the feature here and subscribe to Calul Journal for beautiful free poetry delivered into your inbox every Sunday
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The Steps of Life: Introducing the poetry of John Benditt
As soon as I read the poetry of John Benditt, I thought of cubism and the paintings of Pablo Picasso.
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July 8, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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This week at Calul Journal John Benditt's are featured where John's poems are displayed with paintings by Pablo Picasso.
Read the feature here and subscribe to Calul Journal for beautiful free poetry delivered into your inbox every Sunday
calul.substack.com/p/the-steps-...
This week at Calul Journal John Benditt's are featured where John's poems are displayed with paintings by Pablo Picasso.
Read the feature here and subscribe to Calul Journal for beautiful free poetry delivered into your inbox every Sunday
calul.substack.com/p/the-steps-...
Deep body poetry is the poetry of the disabled body, the queer & trans body and the menstruating body.The workshop will start on July 10th and will run for 4 weeks. The class can be taken asynchronistically. Come write with us!!
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July 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Deep body poetry is the poetry of the disabled body, the queer & trans body and the menstruating body.The workshop will start on July 10th and will run for 4 weeks. The class can be taken asynchronistically. Come write with us!!
Register Today
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Register Today
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The inaugural post of Calul is up! We are a Jewish journal, but we welcome all poets from all walks of life. Calul is Hebrew for inclusivity and that is what I hope the journal will stand for, for bridges, for friendships, for the very human in every poem.
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God Looked Into the Torah and Created the World: Introducing the Poetry of Dan Alter
No, I’m not going to write about ceasefires or foul-mouthed presidents.
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June 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The inaugural post of Calul is up! We are a Jewish journal, but we welcome all poets from all walks of life. Calul is Hebrew for inclusivity and that is what I hope the journal will stand for, for bridges, for friendships, for the very human in every poem.
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How do we bring wonder into terrible times? Through poetry.
In answer to these dark days 15 women poets bring us their "souls on the page" in poems about This Moment.
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In answer to these dark days 15 women poets bring us their "souls on the page" in poems about This Moment.
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June 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
How do we bring wonder into terrible times? Through poetry.
In answer to these dark days 15 women poets bring us their "souls on the page" in poems about This Moment.
judithmagazine.substack.com/p/this-moment
In answer to these dark days 15 women poets bring us their "souls on the page" in poems about This Moment.
judithmagazine.substack.com/p/this-moment
**URGENT** Timely Request --THIS MOMENT--
These are unprecedented times
What are you thinking about? What is important to you in THIS MOMENT?
Send me 3-5 original unpublished poems (no political rants please--go deep) to rachelnmjudith@gmail.com
send your best poems
These are unprecedented times
What are you thinking about? What is important to you in THIS MOMENT?
Send me 3-5 original unpublished poems (no political rants please--go deep) to rachelnmjudith@gmail.com
send your best poems
June 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
**URGENT** Timely Request --THIS MOMENT--
These are unprecedented times
What are you thinking about? What is important to you in THIS MOMENT?
Send me 3-5 original unpublished poems (no political rants please--go deep) to rachelnmjudith@gmail.com
send your best poems
These are unprecedented times
What are you thinking about? What is important to you in THIS MOMENT?
Send me 3-5 original unpublished poems (no political rants please--go deep) to rachelnmjudith@gmail.com
send your best poems
This week at Judith Poetry. When there are no words, at least there are poems...
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Still We Have Poems: Introducing the Poetry of Bill Freedman
Children are dying.
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May 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This week at Judith Poetry. When there are no words, at least there are poems...
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Come Write About the Deep Body!
Join our workshop.
Four Sundays through May and June.
Intimate & safe space to write the stories you have been carrying all this time.
Register today!
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Join our workshop.
Four Sundays through May and June.
Intimate & safe space to write the stories you have been carrying all this time.
Register today!
www.rachelnevemidbar.com/about-3
May 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Come Write About the Deep Body!
Join our workshop.
Four Sundays through May and June.
Intimate & safe space to write the stories you have been carrying all this time.
Register today!
www.rachelnevemidbar.com/about-3
Join our workshop.
Four Sundays through May and June.
Intimate & safe space to write the stories you have been carrying all this time.
Register today!
www.rachelnevemidbar.com/about-3
What does fire mean to you? Send in your fire poems today before midnight tonight. 3-5 unpublished poems to rachelnmjudith@gmail.com
May 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
What does fire mean to you? Send in your fire poems today before midnight tonight. 3-5 unpublished poems to rachelnmjudith@gmail.com
At Judith this week read the words that survived the Holocaust, even if the poets who wrote them did not.
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זכור: Women Poets of the Holocaust
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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April 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
At Judith this week read the words that survived the Holocaust, even if the poets who wrote them did not.
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For Holocaust Remembrance Day here is my translation of a poem by Abba Kovner that has recently appeared in @rhinopoetry.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
For Holocaust Remembrance Day here is my translation of a poem by Abba Kovner that has recently appeared in @rhinopoetry.bsky.social
This week at Judith Poetry a preview of four poems from Parallax, Julia Kolchinsky's newest book due out from U of Arkansas Press on March 14th!
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February 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This week at Judith Poetry a preview of four poems from Parallax, Julia Kolchinsky's newest book due out from U of Arkansas Press on March 14th!
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How does a mitzvah become a poem, become a personal poem and renewed joy in the mitzvah?
Poems “can create new spaces in our interiors,” writes Garth Greenwell, “giving language to something that was mute before and generating something new”
Join me to create something new. Link below
Poems “can create new spaces in our interiors,” writes Garth Greenwell, “giving language to something that was mute before and generating something new”
Join me to create something new. Link below
February 17, 2025 at 7:22 AM
How does a mitzvah become a poem, become a personal poem and renewed joy in the mitzvah?
Poems “can create new spaces in our interiors,” writes Garth Greenwell, “giving language to something that was mute before and generating something new”
Join me to create something new. Link below
Poems “can create new spaces in our interiors,” writes Garth Greenwell, “giving language to something that was mute before and generating something new”
Join me to create something new. Link below
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February 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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oin us at Ritualwell this March. This will be a generative poetry workshop on humanizing the mitzvot through poetry.
Join us for this four week immersion!
Join us for this four week immersion!
February 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
oin us at Ritualwell this March. This will be a generative poetry workshop on humanizing the mitzvot through poetry.
Join us for this four week immersion!
Join us for this four week immersion!
February 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
For years and years I have dreamt of having my name in Plume Poetry. How completely exciting that it is as a translator of the remarkable poems of Holocaust poet Abba Kovner.
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February 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
For years and years I have dreamt of having my name in Plume Poetry. How completely exciting that it is as a translator of the remarkable poems of Holocaust poet Abba Kovner.
plumepoetry.com/three-poems-...
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Its been a difficult day in a difficult time. Let's read some poems. Here is poetry by Marc Alan Di Martino. Light in the darkness. Its all we have.
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"A Failed Synonym For Love:" Introducing the Poetry of Marc Alan Di Martino
I was born in the shadow of the Holocaust; as a child it was all around me.
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January 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Its been a difficult day in a difficult time. Let's read some poems. Here is poetry by Marc Alan Di Martino. Light in the darkness. Its all we have.
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On this day, Holocaust Remembrance Day, here are three of Abba Kovner's poems published last year by the amazing Francesca Bell, Poet at The LA Review.
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Three Poems by Abba Kovner translated by Rachel Neve-Midbar - The Los Angeles Review
In the Blue Mist In the blue mist of an abandoned night highway between the beauty of the Givat Chaim mountains suffused into a single silhouette against the night sky and suddenly from the right th...
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January 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
On this day, Holocaust Remembrance Day, here are three of Abba Kovner's poems published last year by the amazing Francesca Bell, Poet at The LA Review.
losangelesreview.org/three-poems-...
Can you imagine that for 471 days, you never see the sunset or even the sky? And, all of a sudden, on day 472, you can? I hope one of the three hostages released yesterday stepped outside or stood at a hospital window and watched this beautiful sight. May all be free to watch the sunset. It's time.
January 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Can you imagine that for 471 days, you never see the sunset or even the sky? And, all of a sudden, on day 472, you can? I hope one of the three hostages released yesterday stepped outside or stood at a hospital window and watched this beautiful sight. May all be free to watch the sunset. It's time.
As we bid farewell to Chanukah 5785, we welcome 2025 and at Judith we celebrate Light in the Darkness. Happy New Year!
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On the Eighth Day of Chanukah We Enter 2025: the Light of Being Human
What I love most about poetry prompts is the way the prompt mixes with the personality of each poet to create something altogether new and remarkable.
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January 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
As we bid farewell to Chanukah 5785, we welcome 2025 and at Judith we celebrate Light in the Darkness. Happy New Year!
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This week's poetry at Judith, its my honor to share the poetry of Joy Ladin
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The First Light of Chanukah: Introducing the Poetry of Joy Ladin
“Take the candle.” the therapist tells me, “Carry it into your deepest body and shine the light in the hidden places, in the painful places.” My eyes are closed; my feet have been firmly grounded and ...
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December 26, 2024 at 11:56 AM
This week's poetry at Judith, its my honor to share the poetry of Joy Ladin
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