Poetry and Creative Writing Workshop

The course will ask participants to focus their writing on Jewish themes and experiences (contemporary and historical) and will address questions of what is Jewish writing.  Each participant will be given the opportunity to present his/her work for analysis and group discussion.  Samples by published poets and exercises challenging participants to experiment with different forms will be provided by the instructor.

Irena Klepfisz is a poet, Yiddish translator, teacher and feminist/gay activist who has focused much of her research on Yiddish women writers and intellectuals.  She recently retired from 22 years of teaching Jewish Women's Studies at Barnard College. She was a recipient of an NEA fellowship and NYFA grant in poetry and a finalist for the poetry Lambda Award. In 2016 she was honored to receive the Dreaming in Yiddish Prize from the Adrienne Cooper Fund. The author of A Few Words in the Mother Tongue (poetry) and Dreams of an Insomniac (essays), she is preparing the manuscript for a bilingual collection of her poetry and prose to be published next year by the Polish publishing house słowo/obraz terytoria (word/image territories).

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