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Tiferet Journal
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Interfaith literary journal fostering peace through the written word. 🧡
Read our Spring/Summer 2025 Issue 👇
https://tiferetjournal.com/tiferet-journal-spring-summer-2025-issue/
A beautiful reminder of the discovery that can be found in unlearning. Thank you, Jude. 🧡

You can read more work by Jude and other poets in the free digital issue here: tiferetjournal.com/summer-2022-...

#poetry #poetrycollection
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
A beautiful reminder of the discovery that can be found in unlearning. Thank you, Jude. 🧡

You can read more work by Jude and other poets in the free digital issue here:https://tiferetjournal.com/summer-2022-tiferet-journal-issue/

#poetry #poetrycollection
November 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Poets: want to level up your writing? Become a strong performer. 🎙️

We’re excited to offer a new online series with theatre professor Susan Courtney. 🎭

While this current series is in progress, keep an eye out for future offerings! tiferetjournal.com/upcoming-eve...
#poetryworkshop
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Prose poetry is a fabulous genre for poets who also love the visuals and grounded reality of prose. ✏️

Adele Kenny offers a great explanation in Tiferet’s latest Issue which you can read here: tiferetjournal.com/tiferet-jour...
#poetrymagazine
October 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Congrats to Arthur Sze on recently being announced the 2025 US poet laureate! 👏

Listen to Tricycle’s great interview with him for more poetry inspiration. tricycle.org/podcast/arth...

📷 by Sharlett Bravo
October 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This beautiful poem by Tiferet writer and educator Cit Ananda appears in our newest issue, published this spring.

Read the free digital issue: tiferetjournal.com/tiferet-jour...
October 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Hafiz was an ancient mystic poet who still has great influence today in the arts and in writing. His writing celebrates love and spirituality, making him a perfect poet for us to learn from in our Spiritual Poetry Workshops. ✨
October 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Congrats to Tiferet author Riki Aiello on being published in the new anthology, Writing Your Life! ✏️🎉
Learn more here: writingyourlife.org/shop/
#writingcommunity
October 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This weekend’s poetry reading is now available online to enjoy! It features our talented Spiritual Poetry Workshop writers, who craft these gems often within only ten minutes.

Watch the full reading watch here: youtu.be/ZLeGw0Vkt1g?...
#spiritualpoetry #poetryreading #poetryworkshop
September 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Having some writer’s block? ✏️ Prompts, especially when inspired by other works, can be a creative jumpstart. These are prompts we recently used in our Spiritual Poetry Workshops.

Care to join? Learn more here: tiferetjournal.com/upcoming-eve...
#writingworkshop #poetryprompts
September 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
It’s exciting to be reminded of how far our journal has come! Here’s a throwback to promoting Tiferet at the 2012 Houston Indie Book Festival. Today, we work with writers from around the world and are nurturing upcoming spiritual writers through our courses. We’re feeling very grateful. 🧡
September 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
During these challenging times, let us remember to recognize our shared humanity and find the strength to be present with others in their darkness.
#pemachodron
September 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The ancient mystic poet Rumi is known for incorporating metaphor in his work to add additional meaning to his themes. Luckily it still translates to today and is as beautiful. How can you work with symbolism in your poems? #Rumi #poetry
August 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
What a wonderful weekend! Tiferet hosted authors in-person and online for a writing workshop, feedback, and spiritual practices. Thanks to all who came. We can’t wait for the next one! #writingcommunity #writingworkshop
August 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Congrats to Tiferet teacher and guide Cit Ananda for the publication of her beautiful new haibun in Amethyst Magazine! You can read the full piece here: amethystmagazine.org/2025/07/24/l...
Lodgepole Pine and Moon Slivers – a haibun by Cit Ananda
Haibun: Lodgepole Pine and Moon Sliversunder the moonlighta powerful night snares me—confronting demonsDictum suggests waiting. I do not wish to wait. The path before me is narrow but true. I take …
amethystmagazine.org
August 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Interested in writing with people from around the world using prompts like these? Learn more about our virtual spiritual writing workshops: tiferetjournal.com/upcoming-eve...
August 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Poetry teaches us what we want to say. Beautiful words from former US Poet Laureate Rita Dove.🧡 #poetry
July 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
An excerpt from Alicia M. Rodriguez’s fascinating new memoir The Shaman’s Wife. ✨

Read the full excerpt along with many other new spiritual writing in our Spring/Summer issue: tiferetjournal.com/tiferet-jour...
July 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Poets have the best way of describing the joy of summer and the energy it brings. #poetry
July 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Reposted by Tiferet Journal
Barefoot

They say,
"Where there is sorrow,
there is holy ground."
Let us take our shoes off
and walk over all the earth
For there is nothing but holy ground.

#poetry Noor-Allah Jan dePinto, Issue 5 of @tiferetjournal.bsky.social
Cover #Art by Louise Lumen ✨

#spiritual #literature
July 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Write and relax with us at Tiferet’s 2nd Spiritual Poetry Writing Retreat. 🎉And we’re thrilled that it’s in-person! Sign up and learn more: form.jotform.com/251565008332...
July 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Hope is something we all need right now, so why not turn to the great Emily Dickinson, who was trying to find it, too? In our Spiritual Poetry Writing Workshops, we reflect on famous poetry and then freewrite on the theme. Learn more: tiferetjournal.com/upcoming-eve...
#PoetryWorkshop
June 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Huge congrats to Tiferet writer, Nancy Jentsch! The poem she wrote in our Spiritual Poetry Writing Workshops is featured in a new special production, as part of Falcon Theater’s outreach wing. 🎭

Learn more here: www.cc-pl.org/events/uncom...
June 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
A lyrical poem by Jude Rittenhouse about connections to nature and each other. “We revise each other.” ✨

Read the full poem and other writings in our 2025 Spring/Summer issue: tiferetjournal.com/tiferet-jour... @juderitt.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A gorgeous poem by @josephfasano.bsky.social from our 2024 Spring/Summer Issue. 🧡 Read more from the issue: tiferetjournal.com/spring-summe...
This is for my father—and all the fathers who give everything.
June 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM