Blog - Rodger Kamenetz

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...

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....

Shipwrecks : An elegy for Herbert Kearney

Rodger | May 8, 2021 | art, poetry

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

Verse of April

Rodger | April 30, 2021April 30, 2021 | poetry

Just released Verse of April: Hymn For the Living Poet. I have poems in there in homage to three poet-friends. Kit Robinson, Sabine Huynh, and Bill Lavender. You can find…

Dreams & Afflictive States of Mind

Rodger | April 15, 2021April 15, 2021 | Dreams, Natural Dreamwork

Dreams and Afflictive States of Mind With Poet and Author Rodger Kamenetz Register Here When: Tuesday, June 1, 2021 – 7 PM to 9 PM Where: Virtual Zoom Event Fee:…

THE RABBI PUPPET OF PRAGUE

Rodger | March 1, 2021 | poetry, Prague

My friend Richard Katrovas created the Prague Summer Program in the wake of the Velvet Revolution and I was fortunate to teach in it many times in the summer. I…

DREAM LOGIC RE-DREAMED

Rodger | February 7, 2021February 7, 2021 | art, Dream Logic, Dreams, poetry

My friend Alexis Krasilovsky who is a noted film-maker and author also does graphic art. She read into DREAM LOGIC and produced two illustrations that I wanted to share. I…

“Too Many Questions” from Dream Logic

Rodger | January 25, 2021February 1, 2021 | Dream Logic, Dreams, Natural Dreamwork, poetry

Fifteen minutes of poetry from Dream Logic reading.

Theory of Gravity: Or a poem for my own damned birthday

Rodger | January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 | poetry

Theory of Gravity, poem for my own damned birthday 1/20/21 There’s as much mystery in a fork falling under the table as in how I got to be here…

ENCOUNTERING IMAGES #2 WORDSWORTH

Rodger | January 15, 2021January 22, 2021 | Dreams, poetry, Wordsworth

Wordsworth is our great teacher of how to contemplate images in nature, and therefore in our dreams.

Jean Valentine a poet of the dream

Rodger | January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 | Dream Logic, Dreams, poetry

“I had a teacher in college who said, ‘You could write from your dreams,’” she told Ploughshares, the literary magazine, in 2008, “and that was like being given a bag…

A Poem for the Old Year

Rodger | December 31, 2020March 16, 2021 | poetry

A heap of I’s…

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