Rodger Kamenetz
By Rodger Kamenetz
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The Schmooze POEM: ‘The Necessary Killings’
We have to kill them the President said because they are killing us before we can kill them. In that case said the other president, why don’t we kill them yesterday, in which case their children won’t have a chance to grow up. We tried that before said the President, but their children were carrying…
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Culture Philip Levine: ‘1949, Miami Beach. Zero.’
Philip Levine, who has been named the next Poet Laureate of the United States, was the first poet featured in the Forward’s Psalm 151 poetry series. In this piece from the Forward’s archives, Rodger Kamenetz writes about Levine’s poem “Zero for Conduct.” Originally published in the Forward December 1, 2000. A powerful body of Jewish…
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News The Rich and the Bloody
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 By Adrienne Rich W.W. Norton & Company, 24.95 How does poetry serve, since, as W.H. Auden told us long ago, it ?makes nothing happen?? That is the question behind Adrienne Rich?s most recent book, which comes as a summary of all she has learned in the course of…
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The Schmooze ‘Going to the Movies’
Each Thursday, The Arty Semite features excerpts and reviews of the best contemporary Jewish poetry. This week, Rodger Kamenetz introduces “Going to the Movies” by Andrei Codrescu. This piece originally appeared on March 2, 2001, as part of the Forward’s Psalm 151 series. It is being published here online for the first time. Mr. Codrescu…
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The Schmooze The Tenderness of Age
Each Thursday, The Arty Semite features excerpts and reviews of the best contemporary Jewish poetry. This week, Rodger Kamenetz introduces “The Change” by Alicia Ostriker. This piece originally appeared on August 3, 2001, as part of the Forward’s Psalm 151 series. It is being published here online for the first time. Ms. Ostriker has published…
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The Schmooze The Consolations of Samuel Menashe
Each Thursday, The Arty Semite features excerpts and reviews of the best contemporary Jewish poetry. This week, Rodger Kamenetz introduces the poetry of Samuel Menashe. This piece originally appeared on December 5, 2003, as part of the Forward’s Psalm 151 series. It is being published here online for the first time. Every death before mine…
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The Schmooze ‘Allen Ginsberg Forgives Ezra Pound on Behalf of the Jews’
Each Thursday, The Arty Semite features excerpts and reviews of the best contemporary Jewish poetry. This week, Rodger Kamenetz introduces his poem “Allen Ginsberg Forgives Ezra Pound on Behalf of the Jews.” This piece originally appeared on December 7, 2001, as part of the Forward’s Psalm 151 series. It is being published here online for…
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The Schmooze A Journey Through Glass
Each Thursday, The Arty Semite features excerpts and reviews of the best contemporary Jewish poetry. This week, Rodger Kamenetz introduces “Glass” by Robert Pinsky. This piece originally appeared on October 5, 2001, as part of the Forward’s Psalm 151 series. It is being published here online for the first time. Robert Pinsky, poet and translator,…
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