Tasting Flight - Rosenfeld, Yiskah

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Résumé :
Rooted in the origin myths of Genesis when the Divine stepped out of itself onto the slick, dark lid of otherness, Tasting Flight unflinchingly questions, complicates, and celebrates what it means to be a woman and to be deeply, imperfectly, human. -Joy Ladin, National Jewish Book Award-winning author of The Book of Anna and Shekhinah Speaks ...

Biographie:
Yiskah Rosenfeld holds an MFA in poetry from Mills College and an MA in jurisprudence and social policy from UC Berkeley. She is also a proud rabbinical school dropout. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her awards include the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award and the Reuben Rose Memorial Prize. Tasting Flight was the 2022 Arthur Smith Prize runner-up and a finalist for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize. Rosenfeld is the author of Naked Beside Fish (Finishing Line Press, 2024). Poems appear in The Seattle Review, The Bitter Oleander, Lilith Magazine, RATTLE, December Magazine, Cottonwood, and elsewhere. Her writings have appeared in anthologies such as Wild Gods: An Anthology of Ecstatic Poetry, Why to these Rocks: 50 Years of Poems from the Community of Writers, and Yentl's Revenge: the Next Wave of Jewish Feminism. Rosenfeld taught literature at Temple University and was the poet-in-residence on the Arad Arts Project in Israel and the Brandeis Collegiate Institute in California. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area, where she balances solo parenting with teaching workshops on spirituality, feminism, and creative writing.

Sommaire:
Yiskah Rosenfeld holds an MFA in poetry from Mills College and an MA in jurisprudence and social policy from UC Berkeley. She is also a proud rabbinical school dropout. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her awards include the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award and the Reuben Rose Memorial Prize. Tasting Flight was the 2022 Arthur Smith Prize runner-up and a finalist for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize. Rosenfeld is the author of Naked Beside Fish (Finishing Line Press, 2024). Poems appear in The Seattle Review, The Bitter Oleander, Lilith Magazine, RATTLE, December Magazine, Cottonwood, and elsewhere. Her writings have appeared in anthologies such as Wild Gods: An Anthology of Ecstatic Poetry, Why to these Rocks: 50 Years of Poems from the Community of Writers, and Yentl's Revenge: the Next Wave of Jewish Feminism. Rosenfeld taught literature at Temple University and was the poet-in-residence on the Arad Arts Project in Israel and the Brandeis Collegiate Institute in California. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area, where she balances solo parenting with teaching workshops on spirituality, feminism, and creative writing....