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On this week\'s episode, host Marcela Sulak reads poems written by Batsheva Dori-Carlier from her\\xa0debut collection Soul Search, which won the 2015 Helicon Ramy Ditzanny Prize for emerging authors.\\xa0Batsheva Dori-Carlier was born in Jerusalem to parents who left Iraq in the 1950s. For 18 years, she worked as a macrobiotics teacher, chef and consultant in Israel, Belgium, Germany and England. Critics say her poetry "lifts life situations into the realm of art.\\u201d

Here is an excerpt from\\xa0Neve Shalom, about\\xa0an intentional community jointly established by Jewish and Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv-Jaffa:

"Under an olive tree in Neve Shalom it\\u2019s impossible
to write \\u201colive tree\\u201d without murdering some dove it\\u2019s impossible to write
\\u201cNeve Shalom\\u201d without entering into a war.
It\\u2019s impossible to say \\u201cI saw a prickly pear bush this morning
on the way to meditation\\u201d without quarreling with the thorns
that words send beyond their stone walls, ours,
whose olive tree is this and why is each leaf so significant, stuck in my mouth
like the bitter word of the war that I didn\\u2019t start and I can\\u2019t end."

In the episode, Batsheva Dori-Carlier also sings a rendition of an Um Kultum.

Text:
All poems by Batsheva Dori-Carlier, translated by Lisa Katz, from Poetry International

Music:
Umm Kulthum - Enta Omry
Umm Kulthum - Alf Leila