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From A to Z and Everything in Between: "Letters" Poetry
From A to Z and Everything in Between: "Letters" Poetry
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8 minutes
Released:
Sep 6, 2017
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Podcast episode
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This week, host Marcela Sulak features Israeli poetry from the current issue of a special international journal based in Israel called The Ilanot Review. Each issue is themed, and the current issue is called “Letters.” It covers all aspects of letters, from the alphabet, to the epistolary. The Ilanot Review is edited by alumni and faculty from the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University publishes an expanse of writers in English translation and in English originals. Music: Avdei Zman by Etti Ankri Text: Yonathan Berg, “To My Mother,” translated by Joanna Chen Vaan Nguyen, “Metropolitan Pieces,” translated by Adriana X. Jacobs Avraham Sutzkever, Two Poems, translated by Maia Evrona Tahel Frosh, “This is What Happened,” translated by Yosefa Raz Rafi Weichert, “Odyssey,” translated by Karen Alkalay Gut
Released:
Sep 6, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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