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| Deborah Leipziger (Curator of the Jewish Poetry Festival) |
2018
JEWISH POETRY FESTIVAL
Contact: Deborah Leipziger, Curator January 10, 2018
Phone: 617-997-2701
Email: dleipziger@gmail.com
9th
Annual Jewish Poetry Festival at Temple Sinai, Brookline, MA
Sunday,
February 4, 2018 from 2:00 to 4:00 P.M.
Deborah Leipziger, curator of the 8th
Annual Jewish Poetry Festival, announced the event will take place
Sunday, March 5 from 2-4 p.m. at Temple Sinai’s Ehrenfried Hall, 50
Sewall Avenue, Brookline, MA.
Founded by Ms. Leipziger the Jewish
Poetry Festival brings together Jewish poets as well as non-Jewish
poets who write on Jewish subjects. Ms. Leipziger said, “Now in its
ninth year the Jewish Poetry Festival has grown beyond Brookline’s
borders and is a welcoming venue for not only our feature poets, but
also for many people both Jewish and non-Jewish who have written
poems on the central themes of family, community and Jewish life.
This year’s featured poet is Barbara
Helfgott Hyett, a teacher and editor who has published five
collections of poetry, most recently “Rift” from the University
of Arkansas Press. The book won the Boston Foundation’s Father John
Fellowship for Excellence in the Arts. Ms. Helfgott Hyett’s poems
have appeared widely in journals and magazines including The New
Republic, The Nation, Hudson Review, Agni and Ploughshares as well as
in over fifty anthologies. Recipient of many grants, residencies, and
fellowships, she works as a professor of English and is also the
Director of PoemWorks, The Workshop for Publishing Poets, which was
named “One of the Best Workshops in Boston” by the Boston Globe.
Master of Ceremonies for the festival
will be Professor Larry Lowenthal.
An open mic will follow Ms. Helfgott
Hyett’s reading and readers are asked to bring one original poem on
one of the following themes: family, community or Jewish life.
There will be a table at the entrance where those wishing to
participate may sign up.
Refreshments will be served.
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