Virtual Poetry Reading with Daniel Biegelson, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Lisa Grunberger, Alicia Jo Rabins

Split at the Root: Jewish Writers Wrestle with Parenthood, Politics, and Memory

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Daniel Biegelson is the author of the book of being neighbors (Ricochet Editions) and the chapbook Only the Borrowed Light (VERSE). He serves as the Director of the Visiting Writers Series at Northwest Missouri State University, where he also works as an editor for The Laurel Review. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Denver Quarterly, Diagram, Mid-American Review, New Orleans Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, & RHINO Poetry, among other places He holds an MFA from the University of Montana and an MA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He lives near Kansas City with his wife and children.

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach is the author of The Many Names for Mother, The Bear Who Ate the Stars, Don’t Touch the Bones and 40 WEEKS. Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, POETRY, American Poetry Review, and The Nation. She is Editor-in-Chief of Construction Magazine and occasionally writes Other women don’t tell you, a blog about motherhood. Julia came to the United States as a Jewish refugee in 1993, from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, and grew up in the DC metro area suburb of Rockville, Maryland. Her research focuses on contemporary poetry about the Holocaust, with a special focus on atrocity in former Soviet territories.

Pushcart nominee, Temple University Professor, Lisa Grunberger is a first-generation American writer.  Her poetry books  I am dirty and Born Knowing are lyrical reflections on life as a Jewish woman, a mother, and a daughter of Shoah survivors.  Her book, Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love, Loss and the Lotus Position is currently being adapted as a musical.   Her work is widely published and translatred from The New York Times to the Crab Orchard Review.  Almost Pregnant, her play about infertility and assisted reproductive technologies, is published by Smith Scripts.  Alexa Talks to Rebecca won the Audience Choice Award at the Squeaky Bicyle Theatre and will soon be a short film.

Alicia Jo Rabins is a writer, musician, composer, performer and Torah teacher, author of Divinity School (2015 APR/Honickman First Book Prize) and Fruit Geode(a finalist for the Jewish Book Award.) She creates multi-genre works of experimental beauty which explore the intersection of ancient wisdom texts with everyday life, is the creator of Girls in Trouble, an indie-folk song cycle about the complicated lives of Biblical women and A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff (now an award-winning independent feature film). She is a coffee drinker, plant lover, DIY bar/bat/b’nai mitzvah tutor, and ritualist based in Portland, Oregon.