Blog - Rodger Kamenetz

ASTERISM

By Rodger / August 13, 2022

Asterism Losing infinity I saved up for immediacy. Every hour I put a penny in to see the cornflower open...

3 Gilguls of The Missing Jew: Gilgul 2

By Rodger / August 8, 2022

GILGUL 2 1992 In 1992 Time Being Books re-issued an expanded edition, The Missing Jew: New and Selected Poems. I...

3 Gilguls of The MISSING JEW: Gilgul 3

By Rodger / August 8, 2022

GILGUL 3: 2022 In the years since I continued to write on Jewish themes, including The Lowercase Jew which Northwestern...

3 Gilguls of The Missing Jew: GILGUL 1

By Rodger / August 8, 2022

GILGUL 1 1976 In 1976 after my grandfather David Kamenetz z"l died and my rabbi from childhood, Morris Lieberman died,...

A Poem for Tisha B’Av

By Rodger / July 18, 2021

The Ninth of Av --for Maggid Yitzhak Buxbaum, z"l In the rhythm of the year our temple fell. We sat...

Fighting in the Captain’s Tower: In Defense of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize

By Rodger / May 24, 2021

I wrote this piece about me, Bob Dylan and T.S. Eliot in defense of Dylan's Nobel Prize. Re-upping it today...

Shipwrecks : An elegy for Herbert Kearney

By Rodger / May 8, 2021

Herbert Kearney’s fallen angel is at the heart of this elegy.

Verse of April

By Rodger / April 30, 2021

Just released Verse of April: Hymn For the Living Poet. I have poems in there in homage to three poet-friends....

Dreams & Afflictive States of Mind

By Rodger / April 15, 2021

Dreams and Afflictive States of Mind With Poet and Author Rodger Kamenetz Register Here When: Tuesday, June 1, 2021 -...

THE RABBI PUPPET OF PRAGUE

By Rodger / March 1, 2021

My friend Richard Katrovas created the Prague Summer Program in the wake of the Velvet Revolution and I was fortunate...

Old and New Heresies: A Double Book-Launch

Rodger | September 13, 2022August 22, 2022 |

Old and New Heresies: A Double Book-Launch with Rodger Kamenetz, Jay Michaelson, and Basya Schechter Tue, Sep 13 2022 at Congregation Beth Elohim 274 Garfield Place Brooklyn, NY Join us…

The Missing Jew at OCCSP Orange County, CA

Rodger | September 7, 2022August 22, 2022 |

Zoom Reading and Discussion from The Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022 hosted by the Orange County Community Scholar Program. Event is free and you can register here Sign up for my rare…

The Missing Jew and You: Asheville Jewish Community

Rodger | September 1, 2022August 22, 2022 |

The Missing Jew and You: An Elul Workshop with Rodger Kamenetz and Rick Chess Where have you been? Where are you at this very moment? Where are you heading? These…

ASTERISM

Rodger | August 13, 2022 | Dream Logic, poetry

Asterism Losing infinity I saved up for immediacy. Every hour I put a penny in to see the cornflower open its eye or to hear the thunder mutter proto- names….

3 Gilguls of The Missing Jew: Gilgul 2

Rodger | August 8, 2022 | Jewish, poetry, Rodger Kamenetz, The Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022

GILGUL 2 1992 In 1992 Time Being Books re-issued an expanded edition, The Missing Jew: New and Selected Poems. I took lines from the old poems and using midrash made…

3 Gilguls of The MISSING JEW: Gilgul 3

Rodger | August 8, 2022August 8, 2022 | Jewish, poetry, The Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022

GILGUL 3: 2022 In the years since I continued to write on Jewish themes, including The Lowercase Jew which Northwestern put out in 2003. I always felt I wanted to…

3 Gilguls of The Missing Jew: GILGUL 1

Rodger | August 8, 2022 | art, poetry, The Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022

GILGUL 1 1976 In 1976 after my grandfather David Kamenetz z”l died and my rabbi from childhood, Morris Lieberman died, my friend Dr. Marc Lieberman gave me a copy of…

Rise from the Rubble

Rodger | August 7, 2022August 2, 2022 |

Poems for the Ninth of Av

A Poem for Tisha B’Av

Rodger | July 18, 2021August 4, 2022 | poetry, The Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022

The Ninth of Av –for Maggid Yitzhak Buxbaum, z”l In the rhythm of the year our temple fell. We sat low. As if we might fall again but not as…

Fighting in the Captain’s Tower: In Defense of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize

Rodger | May 24, 2021 | poetry

I wrote this piece about me, Bob Dylan and T.S. Eliot in defense of Dylan’s Nobel Prize. Re-upping it today on his 80th birthday. Happy birthday Bob. https://bit.ly/3ukZ7Ei Sign…

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