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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...

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…

CALM APP INTERVIEW

Rodger | December 24, 2020December 24, 2020 | Dreams, Natural Dreamwork

I was interviewed for the Calm App, and featured in their ongoing series, Sparks. Here we talk a little about the benefit of keeping track of your dreams, and how to work with the images they offer.

Dreams and Afflictive Emotions

Rodger | December 16, 2020December 23, 2020 | Buddhism, Dalai Lama, Dreams, Natural Dreamwork, The Jew in the Lotus

I first heard the question during the visit to Dharamsala in 1990 I narrated in The Jew in the Lotus. What are the methods for dealing with “afflictive states of…

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