SHIRIM: A JEWISH POETRY JOURNAL

Over 40 years publishing poetry of Jewish Reference

Vol XXXII/II & XXXIII/I (2014-2015)

Poems of Jewish Bible and Folklore including Commentaries and Midrashim (Guest Editor: Merrill Leffler, in association with Dryad Press)

Table of contents:

Section Author Title Page
Merrill Leffler Introduction by Merrill Leffler, Guest Editor 5
POEMS Harry Rand from The Beginning of Things 7
Elizabeth Rees Noah 9
Miriam Isaacs Babel 11
Jacqueline Jules Prenuptials 12
Jacqueline Jules Wrestling 13
Seymour Mayne Terah's Son 14
Linda Pastan on violence against women 16
Linda Pastan My Jacob 16
Myra Sklarew In the First Tunnel 17
Myra Sklarew Moses 20
Howard Schwartz Till the Angel Passes Over 21
Howard Schwartz Creating Angels 22
Howard Schwartz Gilgul 23
Kim Roberts Tobias and the Fish 24
Kim Roberts Tashlich 25
Charles Adès Fishman Auschwitz Akedah 26
Linda Zisquit Psalmworks 28
Tom Mandel Psalms 30
Jean Nordhaus The rope was innocent 32
Jean Nordhaus When she saw the angel 33
Jean Nordhaus Editing the Haggadah on a Sailboat 34
Rachel Blau DuPlessis Draft 34: Recto 35
Roger Aplon Improvisations: After John Zorn's Masada 41
Jerome Rothenberg The Likht Variations 3 43
Chana Bloch Brothers 46
Beth Baruch Joselow from In The Green Zone 47
Barbara Goldberg Dybbuk 48
Barbara Goldberg Burnt Offering 49
Olivia Simpson Ellis She Wrestled with Abraham's Angel 51
Olivia Simpson Ellis Glowing 51
Jorge Borges / trans. Robert Mezey The Golem 52
Merrill Leffler Limits 55
Jack Greer Reply 56
COMMENTARIES / MIDRASHIM Roger Aplon 57
Chana Bloch by Chana Kronfeld 57
Rachel Blau DuPlessis by Merrill Leffler 57
Olivia Simpson Ellis 58
Barbara Goldberg 59
Miriam Isaacs 60
Beth Baruch Joselow 61
Jacqueline Jules 61
Tom Mandel 61
Seymour Mayne 64
Linda Pastan 64
Harry Rand 65
Kim Roberts 65
Jerome Rothenberg 66
Howard Schwartz 67
Myra Sklarew 68
Linda Zisquit 69
Notes on Contributors 71

A pdf of the table of contents from the original issue is available here.