Blog - Rodger Kamenetz

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...

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…

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…

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…