A note from Trina Porte, American Jewish World poetry editor:
If any of you were hurt or offended by my use of the term “events” to acknowledge October 7, 2023, in the October 2024 AJW poetry column, I am deeply sorry. I didn’t know how to encompass all the grief, outrage and pain into a word that wasn’t re-traumatizing. Reading “events” now seems too minimal a word choice, and for that I hope you will forgive me.
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Poets Sharon Zweigbaum, Ross Plovnik, Diane Pecoraro, Ruth Berman and Miriam Weinstein contributed poems for the October issue’s poetry page.
A copy of the poetry page can be found HERE (click).
We invite local Jews to submit their poems for publication. Please send poems, along with a brief author bio, to: poetry [at] ajwnews [dot] com.
Poems can be up to 30 lines; bios are limited to 60 words.
