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The Stories We Envision: PW Talks with Rodger Kamenetz By Deirdre Coyle | Nov 04, 2025

By Rodger / November 5, 2025

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WWNO READING LIFE INTERVIEW SEEING INTO THE LIFE OF THINGS

By Rodger / October 30, 2025

It was lovely as always to talk with Susan Larson, New Orleans great advocate for books and authors. In this...

Counting Blessings. Excerpt from Seeing Into the Life of Things

By Rodger / October 21, 2025

A main difference between dreams and poetry is that seeing dream images is involuntary and effortless, while seeing images in...

Alice Notley on Poetry and Dreams

By Rodger / May 20, 2025

Alice Notley (November 8, 1945 - May 19, 2025). I met Alice Notley in the late 60's when I was...

DREAMING REALITY

By Rodger / December 1, 2024

Gabriel Meyer Halevy, peace activist, nomad, composer, musician, and now author, interviews me on his monthly substack, ONCE A MOONTH...

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...

Seeing into the Life of Things: Retrospective on Fifty Years of Jewish-American Poetry and Spiritual Autobiography (60 min)

Rodger | December 17, 2025December 17, 2025 |

Monday, February 2 @ The Museum of Southern Jewish Experience (818 Howard Ave), 5:45-6:45pm Seeing into the Life of Things: Retrospective on Fifty Years of Jewish-American Poetry and Spiritual Autobiography (60 min)…

IJS COURSE. SEEING INTO THE LIFE OF THINGS

Rodger | November 14, 2025 |

Seeing into the Life of Things: Imagination and the Sacred Encounter January 14 – February 11, 2026 Five online sessions Wednesdays, 2:00 – 3:15 PM ET January 14, 21, 28,…

Dream Journal Podcast with Katherine Bell

Rodger | November 6, 2025November 6, 2025 |

i will be live on KSQD.org from 10-11am PT on Katherine Bell’s Dream Journal program on Saturday 12/27/25 You can hear the whow later on Spotify and Apple Podcast…

The Stories We Envision: PW Talks with Rodger Kamenetz By Deirdre Coyle | Nov 04, 2025

Rodger | November 5, 2025November 7, 2025 | Buddhism, Dalai Lama, Natural Dreamwork, Seeing into the Life of Things

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Miami Book Fair Hyam Plutzik

Rodger | November 5, 2025 |

With panelists Jacqueline Osherow and Maxim Shrayer we will discuss the poetry of Hyam Plutzik. Sign up for my rare but delightful updates.

Maple Leaf Poetry Rodger Kamenetz and Jonathan Penton

Rodger | November 4, 2025November 19, 2025 |

Rodger Kamenez and Jonathan Penton read from recent work in the legendary Everett Maddox Maple Leaf Poetry Series. Sign up for my rare but delightful updates.

Seeing Into the Life of Things: A Contemplative Retreat

Rodger | November 4, 2025December 19, 2025 |

Learn about finding depth of feeling in waking life, in memory and in dreams in a beautiful rural retreat setting. Stillness, contemplation and deepening– seeing into the life of things with an eye made quiet.

The Torah of Dreams Part 2 and 3

Rodger | November 4, 2025 |

During the shabbat service I will give a dvar Torah on Parashah Vayeshev which includes Joseph’s dreams when he was a “lad” and his brother’s angry reactions. Having discussed what…

The Torah of Dreams Book talk

Rodger | November 4, 2025November 15, 2025 |

I will be presenting a three part series at Shir Chadash open to the public. In part one on Sunday December 7 I will present teaching from Seeing into the…

WWNO READING LIFE INTERVIEW SEEING INTO THE LIFE OF THINGS

Rodger | October 30, 2025November 1, 2025 | Dalai Lama, Rodger Kamenetz, Seeing into the Life of Things, Wordsworth

It was lovely as always to talk with Susan Larson, New Orleans great advocate for books and authors. In this excerpt we talk about the core of Seeing into the…

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