A Reading and Conversation with Joy Ladin

A Reading and Conversation with Joy Ladin

Wednesday, February 8, 2023
1:00-2:00 p.m. ET
Online

Join us online to hear from poet and literary scholar, Joy Ladin, in conversation with Jessica Jacobs, author and founder and executive director of Yetzirah, a nonprofit literary organization for Jewish poets.

Speakers

Joy Ladin has published ten books of poetry, including National Jewish Book Award winner The Book of Anna, Lambda Literary Award finalists Transmigration and Impersonation, and newly published Shekhinah Speaks (Selva Oscura). She is also the author of a memoir, National Jewish Book Award finalist Through the Door of Life; and Lambda Literary and Triangle Award finalist The Soul of the Stranger.

Jessica Jacobs is the author of Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going (Four Way Books), Pelvis with Distance (White Pine Press), and Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire (Spruce Books/PenguinRandomHouse), co-authored with her wife Nickole Brown. Chapbook Editor for Beloit Poetry Journal, Four Way Books will publish Jessica’s collection Unalone, poems in conversation with the Book of Genesis in 2024. She is the founder and executive director of Yetzirah, a nonprofit literary organization dedicated to fostering and supporting a community space for Jewish poets, nourishing writers and readers of Jewish poetry now and for generations to come.