Although it’s true that I earned my first paycheck for my writing with a poem published in Young Judaean back when I was in high school, poetry has joined my grown-up writing practice relatively recently. On this page, you’ll find the titles of (and some links to) my published poetry.
Of course, the best way to access a collection of my poems is in the form of my collection: Birthright.
- “A Single Woman of Valor,” Jewish Book Council’s PB [Paper Brigade] Daily, November 2019.
- “Complicity,” 929, August 2019.
- “Pharaoh’s Daughter Addresses Linda Sarsour,” Jewish Journal, April 2019.
- “Miriam, Quarantined,” 929, January 2019.
- “On Rediscovering My First Crush on Facebook” and “The Smell of Infection,” The Sunlight Press, October 2018.
- “This Woman’s Prayer,” Jewish Journal, August 2018.
- “The O-Word,” Jewish Journal, June 2018.
- “When Your Niece Attends a Jewish Day School,” Rhyme On 2018 Contest Honorable Mention, June 2018.
- “Wherever You’ve Gone, Joe DiMaggio,” Alyss, April 2018.
- “The Book of Vashti,” Jewess, February 2018.
- “Birthright” and “Sabbath Rest 2.0,” Jewcy, November 2017.
- “On Reading Chapter 19 in the Book of Judges,” Moment magazine, September-October 2017.
- “Aftermath,” Jewish Currents Jewish New Year supplement, September 2017.
- “The End of the Lines,” Whale Road Review, September 2017.
- “Unsolved Mysteries of Samson and Delilah,” ReformJudaism.org, June 2017.
- “History Lesson in 210 Words,” Jewish Journal, April 2017.
- “Fighting Words,” The Hollins Critic, April 2017. (Reprinted on 929, March, 2019.)
- “Hypothetical Life” and “Ratatouille for One,” The Sunlight Press, February 2017.
- “A Walker in the Post-Blizzard City,” The Wild Word, January 2017.
- “Rightful Places” (“A Poem for Hanukkah 5777/2016”), Lilith blog, December 2016.
- “A Poem for Vayishlach: ‘Dinah Speaks’,” Lilith blog, December 2016.
- “Vocabulary Lesson, 1977,” “Love Note to Myself,” and “We Are All Bag Ladies,” Theories of HER (Mercurial Noodle Press, 2016)
- “A Single Woman Argues with Ecclesiastes,” Forward.com, November 2016.
- “Homage to My Skull,” Medical Journal of Australia, August 2016.
- “Abel’s Brother Anticipates Lady Macbeth: A Soliloquy,” Moment magazine, July-August 2016.
- “The Story of Ruth, in Three Poems,” Tablet, June 2016.
- “The Book of Ruth, or Notes on Serendipity,” Forward.com, June 2016.
- “Black Sheep in the World to Come,” Hevria, April 2016.
- “My Mother’s Olivetti,” Writing the Words, April 2016.
- “Self-Portrait with Root Rescue™,” Silver Birch Press, February 2016.
- “Ode to a Rescuer,” Haaretz, October 2015. (Reprinted in Shirim, May 2018.)
- “Beautiful Enough,” Silver Birch Press, June 2015.
- “Kaddish for My Uterus,” Lilith blog, December 2014. (Reprinted on Ritualwell, April 2015.)
- “September 1, 1946,” Forward.com, May 2014.
- “Mount Zion,” Forward.com, May 2014.
- “Questions for the Critics,” ReformJudaism.org, November 2012. (Reprinted in Jewish Journal, May 2016)
- “With or Without,” Qarrtsiluni, July 2012 (includes podcast).
- “Dayenu,” Moment magazine, March-April 2012. (Reprinted on RJ.org, February 2014.)
- “Jerusalem Dream,” MissouriReview.com/textBOX, March 2012.
- “Umbilicus,” Adanna, Summer 2011.
- “Eremikophobia,” Berg Gasse 19, May 2011.
- “Emor,” New Vilna Review, April 2011.
- “Parental Recollections from BP’s Better Days” and “Bottom Feeders in Slumburbia,” Poetry24, March 2011.
- “The Autumn of H1N1,” American Journal of Nursing, October 2010.
- “Meteorology,” Christian Science Monitor, September 2010. (Reprinted on YourDailyPoem.com, October 2011.)
- “Pünktlichkeit,” Moment magazine, July-August 2010. (Reprinted in SalonZine, August 2013, and on Poetry Super Highway, April 2015.)
- “Sisters, or Double Chai,” New Vilna Review, July 2010.
- “Solar Damage,” The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, December 2009.
- “Thirteen Ways of Looking at My Latest Cold,” Babel Fruit, Winter-Spring 2009.
- “Cure,” Migraine Expressions (Word Metro Press, 2008).
- “Mannheim,” New Vilna Review, May 2008.
- “Diaspora,” New Vilna Review, May 2008
- “American Love Sonnet,” flashquake, Winter 2007-08.