Starting Wednesday January 14 at 2pm ET I will offer a five-week program of imaginative spiritual practice based on my new book: Seeing into the Life of Things: Imagination and the Sacred Encounter. bit.ly/IJSCOURSERK

The creative resource of memory and dreams On the Brevity blog an interview with Dinty Moore with some prompts and tips for nonfiction writers and poets. bit.ly/SITLOTBrevity

Last week in NYC we had ourselves a book party for Seeing into the Life of Things. Thanks to Anya & Adam for hosting & for amazing guests including these folks. @AmichaiLauLavie @jaymichaelson @ShirLaLaKline @basyaschechter @gabymeyerh @anya1anya @MonkfishBookPub

Honored to have The Jew in the Lotus among the top 50 Jewish books of the past 50 years along with Alicia Ostriker, Cynthia Ozick and uh Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. bit.ly/JITL50Moment

A book talk with IJS’s Rabbi Josh Feigelson bit.ly/IJSBOOKTALKR...

I talk about the soulful imagination on Phil Goldberg’s pod Spirit Matters. And we laugh a lot. bit.ly/SpiritMatter...

Thank you PW. bit.ly/PWSEEINGLIFE

I’ll give a zoom talk for OCCSP Tuesday November 11, 2025 10-11 AM PT 12-1PM CT 1-2 PM ET 20-21 IT Here’s the link to REGISTER: (you don’t need to hit it, just gently touch it) bit.ly/SeeingOCCSP

Grateful to Susan Larson and her Reading Life for this sweet conversation about my new book Seeing Into the Life of Things #Monkfish #Wordsworth #poetry #nature #NewOrleans bit.ly/SeeingReadin...

Great Blue Heron in mist. Deer Lake.

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

Raul Hilberg’s 3 phases of The Destruction of European Jews: Identification. Expulsion. Annihilation No one should doubt the dangerous dehumanization explicit in Trump’s remarks about expelling Palestinians. Hamas is a genocidal organization by charter. The answer can never be to be like them.

Leopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry; this occurs repeatedly, again and again: finally it can be reckoned upon beforehand and becomes part of the ceremony. --Franz Kafka, 1919 h/t Bernard Friedman

I feel honored to keynoting this interfaith conference at Elon University. www.elon.edu/u/news/2025/...

I’ve got friends who’ve gotten their knees replaced, their hips replaced. When you dream, you get your brain replaced. It’s like having a whole new mind every night.

Junior and Senior ibis. Senior snagged a slice of bread. City Park, New Orleans.

Things seen are things as seen— Wallace Stevens

The compound eyes of this dragonfly—the grey goggles on the left -have 30000 lenses. Eastern pondhawk

Poetry is the reality on which science is based. -William Carlos Williams

Nice coverage of Yetzirah’s inaugural Jewish poetry conference. https://forward.com/culture/556520/yetzirah-jewish-poetry-conference-poets-asheville-north-carolina-kaminsky-osherow/

Keats got this right: “What is creative creates itself.”