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

IJS Book Talk

Rodger | October 28, 2025November 3, 2025 |

A Zoom Book Talk with Rabbi Josh Feigelson of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. Register HERE December 3, 2025 8-9pm ET Institute for Jewish Spirituality Sign up for my rare…

MIAMI BOOK FAIR Why Poetry Still Matters

Rodger | October 28, 2025November 5, 2025 |

Rodger Kamenetz will be featured in two panels during the Miami Book Fair. Sunday, November 23 @ 11 – 11:50 a.m. ET Building 8, Third Floor, Room 8303 WHY POETRY…

IVY BOOKSHOP DISCUSSION with Brian Volck

Rodger | October 28, 2025October 28, 2025 |

With the help of Baltimore author and poet Brian Volck I will be teaching practices that help us gain resilience and joy in a difficult time. An evening with Rodger…

ADAT SHALOM. ENDURING INFLUENCE OF THE JEWISH-BUDDHIST DIALOGUE

Rodger | October 28, 2025November 11, 2025 |

The Dalai Lama asked two questions to the Jewish scholars and rabbis who met with him in Dharamsala in 1990. The first was about Jewish spiritual survival in exile. The…

BOOK SIGNING PEOPLE’S BOOKS TAKOMA PARK

Rodger | October 28, 2025October 28, 2025 |

Rodger Kamenetz will do a one hour presentation and discussion of his new book Seeing into the Life of Things and will be introduced by poet and publisher –and Takoma…

ADAT SHALOM. Morning Blessings with Visualizations

Rodger | October 28, 2025November 11, 2025 |

Drawing on the Counting Blessings practice in his new book Seeing Into the Life of Things, Rodger will teach a practice to cultivate a sense of resilience and joy in…

ZOOM with Orange County Community Scholars Program

Rodger | October 28, 2025 |

In this online author presentation, Rodger Kamenetz invites us on an exhilarating journey that weaves together poetry, personal experience, and spiritual exploration. Drawing from his new work Seeing into the…

Counting Blessings. Excerpt from Seeing Into the Life of Things

Rodger | October 21, 2025 | Dreams, Natural Dreamwork, poetry, Rodger Kamenetz, Seeing into the Life of Things

A main difference between dreams and poetry is that seeing dream images is involuntary and effortless, while seeing images in words—reading with imagination—requires intention and participation. You can’t speed read…

Alice Notley on Poetry and Dreams

Rodger | May 20, 2025 | Dream Logic, Dreams, poetry

Alice Notley (November 8, 1945 – May 19, 2025). I met Alice Notley in the late 60’s when I was an undergraduyate and later while living in Blatimore we did…

DREAMING REALITY

Rodger | December 1, 2024 | Uncategorized

Gabriel Meyer Halevy, peace activist, nomad, composer, musician, and now author, interviews me on his monthly substack, ONCE A MOONTH where we talk about dreams, kabbalah and more. To listen…

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