Join us this afternoon at 3 pm Eastern for an online poetry reading and conversation featuring Atar Hadari, Matthew Lippman, & Maxim D. Shrayer Sign up at

Join us Sunday at 3 pm Eastern for an online poetry reading and conversation featuring Atar Hadari, Matthew Lippman, & Maxim D. Shrayer, featuring new volumes focusing on the post-10/7 Diaspora experience and the life of Ariel Sharon

Join us Sunday at 3 pm Eastern for an online poetry reading and conversation featuring Atar Hadari, Matthew Lippman, & Maxim D. Shrayer Sign up at

Join us this afternoon at 3 pm Eastern for an online poetry reading and conversation featuring Genevieve Greinetz, Baruch November, & Donna Spruijt-Metz. Sign up at

Join us Sunday, 10/26, at 3 pm Eastern for an online poetry reading and conversation featuring Genevieve Greinetz, Baruch November, & Donna Spruijt-Metz. Sign up at

Our Simchat Torah sale is underway. Save 25% on all our parsha titles: prose, poetry, and pictures; the serious, the silly, and the interactive. www.benyehudapress.c...

Two new timely books of poetry. "King of the Jews" by Matthew Lippman captures the experience of mourning for 10/7 and fearing for the fate of the hostages from abroad.

A New Year is dawning, may it be for the good, and with it lengthy synagogue stays. Now is the time to pick up shul reading, so we're running a sale: Save 20% on one book, 30% on two or three, and 40% on four or more.

Continuing our series of bilingual poetry translations, "Wu Wei Eats an Egg" presents Dutch poet Lucas Hirsch in English carefully rendered by Donna Spruijt-Metz. *Wu wei eats an egg* What always was, is, and will be cracks an egg on the edge of a frying pan Acts according to the nature

Just published: "Zion Square," the new poetry collection from Maxim D. Shrayer. Available direct from Ben Yehuda Press and the usual places. *Zion Square* In the earthly city of Jerusalem I like to stay just a couple of blocks from Kikar HaMusica in Yo’el Moshe Salomon Street, a pathway

Just published: "The Broken Heart is the Master Key," the new poetry collection from Baruch November (@bnovember). Introduction by Alicia Ostriker. Available direct from Ben Yehuda Press and the usual places.

We are proud to be launching three new poetry titles this month: Wu Wei Eats an Egg by Lucas Hirsch, translated from the Dutch by @dsmpoet.bsky.social The Broken Heart is the Master Key by Baruch November Zion Square, by Maxim D. Shrayer

Vanessa De Loya Stauber's POÉSIE ORGANIQUE / ORGANIC POETRY is one of our latest poetry releases. You can order it now! www.benyehudapress.c... 1/2

Noah Berlatsky's 1st collection of poetry, *Not Akhmatova* is a collection of quasi translations, appropriations, and arguments with the poetry of Anna Akhmatova in the context of Jewish diaspora. Order here: www.amazon.com/Not-A...

A little thread of music by Jewish-American guitarist Marc Ribot, starting with his classic "Yo! I Killed Your God" www.youtube.com/watc... 1/4

Sally Priesand, the first ordained American woman rabbi, was born on this day in 1946. She's one of our HEROES WITH CHUTZPAH! www.benyehudapress.c... 1/3

The JBI (former Jewish Braille Institute) has sponsored audio recordings of two Jewish Poetry Project titles: Rodger Kamenetz's THE MISSING JEW and Maya Bernstein's NO PLACE WITHOUT YOU. 1/5

A poem for sunday by Jewish-American poet Hadara Bar-Nadav .

R. B. Lemberg's EVERYTHING THAWS is a poetric cycle and memoir "suspended between Ukraine and the permafrost of Siberia, among the traumatized, silent, persecuted members of their Jewish family." www.benyehudapress.c... 1/2

Ilya Gutner's book of poems WALKING TRIPTYCHS: SHANGHAI POEMS is a series of poems written walking around Shanghai and thinking about the Holocaust and its legacy. 1/2

Attached is the poem "Today" by Rosa Nevadovska (1890-1971), translated by Merle L. Bachman from the Yiddish. Bachman's translation of Nevadovska's poems, *So Many Warm Words* is published by Ben Yehuda Press in a bilingual translation. www.benyehudapress.c... 1/5

Billy Joel, one of the most successful Jewish poets/songwriters of the past decades, has announced he is ill and is no longer planning to tour. Thought we'd do a short thread in tribute. www.youtube.com/watc... 1/5

Lori Levy's poetry collection *Feet In L.A., But My Womb Lives In Jerusalem, My Breath In Vermont* merges nostalgia and carpe diem as she recalls important stations of her journeys between Vermont, Israel, and California. www.benyehudapress.c... 1/3

Children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak was born on this date in 1928. He's one of our HEROES WITH CHUTZPAH! www.benyehudapress.c... 1/3

Drica Loba, the cover artist for David Caplan's BYP poetry collection NORTH SHORE, has posted about the painting and the collaboration. www.dricalobo.com/po... 1/3

I just learned that British WW I poet Siegfried Sassoon's father was Jewish. So seemed like a good excuse to share a few of his poems for this Sunday. Here's a famous, jaded account of heroism in war.

Ben Yehuda Press publishes lots of talented poets, many of whom have released books elsewhere, too. So here's a thread of books BYP poets have published with presses other than BYP. www.benyehudapress.c...

A reminder that Genevieve Greinetz's poetry collection ANIMALS ARE SHOUTING DOWN FROM THE SKY is available now! "The poems in this collection begin in the middle of a thought. The effect that this has is one of deep urgency.... " —Matthew Lippman www.benyehudapress.c...

For Sunday, thought we'd share one of Paul Celan's poems, "There Was Earth Inside Them," translated by Pierre Joris. 1/3

Thread with a bunch of great book recs, including a number of BYP titles!

Baruch November's THE BROKEN HEART IS THE MASTERKEY is a unique Hasidic dance, a lyrical niggun that lingers in our hearts long after we finish reading. Pre-orders are now available. www.benyehudapress.c...

Drica Loba, the cover artist for David Caplan's BYP poetry collection NORTH SHORE, has posted about the painting and the collaboration. www.dricalobo.com/po... 1/3

Ben Yehuda Press publishes lots of talented poets, many of whom have released books elsewhere, too. So here's a thread of books BYP poets have published with presses other than BYP. www.benyehudapress.c...

Our BYP newsletter has started up again. Sign up now and get news of the latest awesome BYP releases right in your inbox! www.benyehudapress.c...

Andrew Burt's POEMS FOR A CARTOON MOUSE is a collection of poems gut-wrenching in their examination of the American dream

Noah Berlatsky's poetry collection NOT AKHMATOVA is now available on a range of ebook platforms. books.apple.com/us/b...... www.barnesandnoble.c......; play.google.com/stor...... www.amazon.com/dp/B0... 1/2

Two new books of Jewish poetry are out today from BYP! 1/3

For Sunday, we're sharing a few poems by Jewish-American modernist/objectivist poet Charles Reznikoff (1894—1976). This is his poem "Romance" (Reznikoff was in the army during WW I, though he did not see active duty.) 1/3

Two new books of Jewish poetry are out next week from BYP. You can order them right now. 1/3

Award-winning screenwriter Edward Pomerantz's BITS AND PIECES is a poetic memoir of 1940s-50s Jewish working-class life in New York’s Washington Heights. www.benyehudapress.c... 1/3

Big mother's day poetry reading TODAY! At 8 PM ET, ten Jewish poets will be reading from their work at The Only One Or One Of Many event. Two BYP poets, Rhonda Rosenheck and Baruch November, are featured! Sign up at the link. us02web.zoom.us/meet... 1/3

Given the state of everything, it seemed like a good moment for some agonized screams. So here's a Sunday thread of Jewish noise—starting with Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music. www.youtube.com/watc... 1/7

Vanessa De Loya Stauber's POÉSIE ORGANIQUE / ORGANIC POETRY is out now. Order it here: www.benyehudapress.c... 1/2

Big mother's day poetry reading upcoming! This Sunday 10 (ten!) Jewish poets will be reading from their work at The Only One Or One Of Many event. Two BYP poets, Rhonda Rosenheck and Baruch November, are featured! Sign up at the link. us02web.zoom.us/meet... 1/3

President Trump fired Doug Emhoff and other Biden appointees from the board of the Holocaust Museum. Emhoff, who is featured in our book HEROES WITH CHUTZPAH, criticized the politicization of the museum and Holocaust memory. www.npr.org/2025/04/... 1/2

Julia Knobloch's second book of poetry, THE BOOK OF FAILED SALVATION, is about a relationship and its end seen through the lens of Jewish history and faith. www.benyehudapress.c... 1/4

Four BYP poets gave a joint reading in San Francisco at Der Nister last week. Here's a photo! From left to right below: Rabbi Henry Hollander (Der Nister), Donna Spruijt-Metz, Julia Knobloch, Genevieve Greinetz, Carine Topal Thread below has introductions to each poet!

Avrom Sutzkever (1913-2010) was an acclaimed Yiddish poet and a witness in the Nuremberg trials. His epic poem ODE TO THE DOVE is available from BYP in a bilingual edition, trans by Zackary Sholem Berger, with illustrations by Liora Ostroff. www.benyehudapress.c...

As Musk and his hench clowns destroy USAID programs, we thought we'd do a little thread on Harry Chapin, Jewish singer/songwriter/poet and anti-hunger activist. This is an interview from 1974 in which Chapin talks about confronting world hunger. www.youtube.com/watc... 1/5

TODAY! starting at 11 AM, PT, BYP is exhibiting at the first Jewish Arts & Bookfest in Berkeley! Organized by The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life on May 4. Tickets and info at the link; join us! Daniel Handler will give the keynote. magnes.berkeley.edu/...