From A to Z and Everything in Between: "Letters" Poetry

Published: Sept. 6, 2017, 5 a.m.

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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 \\u201cLetters.\\u201d 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, \\u201cTo My Mother,\\u201d translated by Joanna Chen
Vaan Nguyen, \\u201cMetropolitan Pieces,\\u201d translated by Adriana X. Jacobs
Avraham Sutzkever, Two Poems, translated by Maia Evrona
Tahel Frosh, \\u201cThis is What Happened,\\u201d translated by Yosefa Raz
Rafi Weichert, \\u201cOdyssey,\\u201d translated by Karen Alkalay Gut

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