The creative resource of memory and dreams On the Brevity blog an interview with Dinty Moore with some prompts and tips for nonfiction writers and poets.
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Seeing into the Life of Things: Memory as an Act of Imagination
“I write in the perfume of the dream.” In his latest book, Rodger Kamenetz blends dreamwork and poetic imagination to offer pathways toward a more meaningful life, while also exploring …
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November 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The creative resource of memory and dreams On the Brevity blog an interview with Dinty Moore with some prompts and tips for nonfiction writers and poets.
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Last week in NYC we had ourselves a book party for Seeing into the Life of Things. Thanks to Anya & Adam for hosting & for amazing guests including these folks. @AmichaiLauLavie @jaymichaelson @ShirLaLaKline @basyaschechter @gabymeyerh @anya1anya @MonkfishBookPub
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Last week in NYC we had ourselves a book party for Seeing into the Life of Things. Thanks to Anya & Adam for hosting & for amazing guests including these folks. @AmichaiLauLavie @jaymichaelson @ShirLaLaKline @basyaschechter @gabymeyerh @anya1anya @MonkfishBookPub
Honored to have The Jew in the Lotus among the top 50 Jewish books of the past 50 years along with Alicia Ostriker, Cynthia Ozick and uh Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. bit.ly/JITL50Moment
50 Books in 50 Years
To construct a list of books that made a difference in American Jewish life between 1975 and 2025 is to be reminded that however deeply you ponder what to include, the exercise’s main value is as a co...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Honored to have The Jew in the Lotus among the top 50 Jewish books of the past 50 years along with Alicia Ostriker, Cynthia Ozick and uh Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. bit.ly/JITL50Moment
A book talk with IJS’s Rabbi Josh Feigelson bit.ly/IJSBOOKTALKR...
IJS Book Talk with Rodger Kamenetz
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November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A book talk with IJS’s Rabbi Josh Feigelson bit.ly/IJSBOOKTALKR...
I talk about the soulful imagination on Phil Goldberg’s pod Spirit Matters. And we laugh a lot. bit.ly/SpiritMatter...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I talk about the soulful imagination on Phil Goldberg’s pod Spirit Matters. And we laugh a lot. bit.ly/SpiritMatter...
Thank you PW. bit.ly/PWSEEINGLIFE
The Stories We Envision: PW Talks with Rodger Kamenetz
The author best known for The Jew in the Lotus is back with a new book, Seeing into the Life of Things, about what it means to bring words to our visions and emotions.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Thank you PW. bit.ly/PWSEEINGLIFE
I’ll give a zoom talk for OCCSP Tuesday November 11, 2025 10-11 AM PT 12-1PM CT 1-2 PM ET 20-21 IT
Here’s the link to REGISTER: (you don’t need to hit it, just gently touch it)
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Here’s the link to REGISTER: (you don’t need to hit it, just gently touch it)
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Seeing into the Life of Things: Imagination and the Sacred Encounter (Rodger Kamenetz)
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November 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I’ll give a zoom talk for OCCSP Tuesday November 11, 2025 10-11 AM PT 12-1PM CT 1-2 PM ET 20-21 IT
Here’s the link to REGISTER: (you don’t need to hit it, just gently touch it)
bit.ly/SeeingOCCSP
Here’s the link to REGISTER: (you don’t need to hit it, just gently touch it)
bit.ly/SeeingOCCSP
Grateful to Susan Larson and her Reading Life for this sweet conversation about my new book Seeing Into the Life of Things #Monkfish #Wordsworth #poetry #nature #NewOrleans bit.ly/SeeingReadin...
The Reading Life: Rodger Kamenetz
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November 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Grateful to Susan Larson and her Reading Life for this sweet conversation about my new book Seeing Into the Life of Things #Monkfish #Wordsworth #poetry #nature #NewOrleans bit.ly/SeeingReadin...
Great Blue Heron in mist. Deer Lake.
March 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Great Blue Heron in mist. Deer Lake.
Reposted by Rodger Kamenetz
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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February 25, 2025 at 4:00 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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Raul Hilberg’s 3 phases of The Destruction of European Jews: Identification. Expulsion. Annihilation
No one should doubt the dangerous dehumanization explicit in Trump’s remarks about expelling Palestinians. Hamas is a genocidal organization by charter. The answer can never be to be like them.
No one should doubt the dangerous dehumanization explicit in Trump’s remarks about expelling Palestinians. Hamas is a genocidal organization by charter. The answer can never be to be like them.
February 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Raul Hilberg’s 3 phases of The Destruction of European Jews: Identification. Expulsion. Annihilation
No one should doubt the dangerous dehumanization explicit in Trump’s remarks about expelling Palestinians. Hamas is a genocidal organization by charter. The answer can never be to be like them.
No one should doubt the dangerous dehumanization explicit in Trump’s remarks about expelling Palestinians. Hamas is a genocidal organization by charter. The answer can never be to be like them.
Leopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry; this occurs repeatedly, again and again: finally it can be reckoned upon beforehand and becomes part of the ceremony.
--Franz Kafka, 1919
h/t Bernard Friedman
--Franz Kafka, 1919
h/t Bernard Friedman
January 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Leopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry; this occurs repeatedly, again and again: finally it can be reckoned upon beforehand and becomes part of the ceremony.
--Franz Kafka, 1919
h/t Bernard Friedman
--Franz Kafka, 1919
h/t Bernard Friedman
I feel honored to keynoting this interfaith conference at Elon University. www.elon.edu/u/news/2025/...
Renowned author and poet Rodger Kamenetz announced as keynote speaker for the Ripple Conference
The Ripple Conference theme, the Art of Interfaith, will offer participants a unique opportunity to delve into the intersections of interfaith and the arts
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January 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I feel honored to keynoting this interfaith conference at Elon University. www.elon.edu/u/news/2025/...
I’ve got friends who’ve gotten their knees replaced, their hips replaced. When you dream, you get your brain replaced. It’s like having a whole new mind every night.
December 13, 2024 at 11:17 PM
I’ve got friends who’ve gotten their knees replaced, their hips replaced. When you dream, you get your brain replaced. It’s like having a whole new mind every night.
Junior and Senior ibis. Senior snagged a slice of bread. City Park, New Orleans.
November 21, 2024 at 3:42 AM
Junior and Senior ibis. Senior snagged a slice of bread. City Park, New Orleans.
Things seen are things as seen— Wallace Stevens
September 4, 2023 at 7:01 PM
Things seen are things as seen— Wallace Stevens
The compound eyes of this dragonfly—the grey goggles on the left -have 30000 lenses. Eastern pondhawk
August 10, 2023 at 12:56 AM
The compound eyes of this dragonfly—the grey goggles on the left -have 30000 lenses. Eastern pondhawk
Poetry is the reality on which science is based. -William Carlos Williams
August 8, 2023 at 9:47 PM
Poetry is the reality on which science is based. -William Carlos Williams
Nice coverage of Yetzirah’s inaugural Jewish poetry conference. https://forward.com/culture/556520/yetzirah-jewish-poetry-conference-poets-asheville-north-carolina-kaminsky-osherow/
Something wonderful is happening in the world of Jewish poetry
At the Yetzirah Poetry Conference in Asheville, North Carolina, some Jewish poets feel they've finally found their very own shul.
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August 6, 2023 at 12:53 AM
Nice coverage of Yetzirah’s inaugural Jewish poetry conference. https://forward.com/culture/556520/yetzirah-jewish-poetry-conference-poets-asheville-north-carolina-kaminsky-osherow/
Keats got this right: “What is creative creates itself.”
August 4, 2023 at 1:10 AM
Keats got this right: “What is creative creates itself.”