Maple Leaf Poetry Rodger Kamenetz and Jonathan Penton
Rodger Kamenez and Jonathan Penton read from recent work.
Rodger Kamenetz
Seeing Into the Life of Things: A Contemplative Retreat
Join Master Naturalist Jordan Bantuelle, dream teacher Kezia Vida and Seeing into the Life of Things author Rodger Kamenetz for an immersive contemplative two day retreat teaching the spiritual power of giving birth to our own images. We will walk the woods, deepen our remembering and find the sacred encounters in our dreams all in … Read more
MIAMI BOOK FAIR Why Poetry Still Matters
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 STILL MATTERS During the historic dialogue between rabbis and the Dalai Lama, as told in his international bestseller The Jew in the Lotus, Rodger Kamenetz … Read more
ADAT SHALOM. Morning Blessings with Visualizations
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 difficult times. For more information about the synagogue and event please go HERE.
ZOOM with Orange County Community Scholars Program
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 Life of Things, Kamenetz reveals how imagination itself can be a natural spiritual path. From the rhythms of his native New Orleans to his friendship … Read more
SEEING INTO THE LIFE OF THINGS. BOOK LAUNCH
Rodger Kamenetz’s new book, Seeing Into the Life of Things: Imagination and the Sacred Encounter, addresses the problem of reactivity. These afflictive states of mind are at the root of our personal suffering: envy, resentment, rage, anxiety—difficult and unpleasant mind states that drive us crazy until we feel our own lives are not our own. … Read more
3 Gilguls of The Missing Jew: Gilgul 2
GILGUL 2 1992 In 1992 Time Being Books re-issued an expanded edition, The Missing Jew: New and Selected Poems. I took lines from the old poems and using midrash made new poems from the old. The book now was 101 pages long. About this edition, the great novelist Louise Erdrich was kind enough to write: … Read more
3 Gilguls of The MISSING JEW: Gilgul 3
GILGUL 3: 2022 In the years since I continued to write on Jewish themes, including The Lowercase Jew which Northwestern put out in 2003. I always felt I wanted to expand THE MISSING JEW project and now in its current incarnation comes The Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022 which encompasses 46 years of work. At 230 … Read more