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Friday, December 11, 2009
Friday Find: Poems for Chanukah
As the lighting of the first Chanukah candle approaches, the Academy of American Poets provides Poems for Chanukah. For those who celebrate it, Happy Chanukah. For everyone, have a great weekend and see you back here on Monday.
My late aunt, the poet Myra Cohn Livingston, published many anthologies nominally for children (along with many books of her own work). One, published in 1986, is Poems for the Jewish Holidays. There are two Hanukah poems in it, Dreidl by J.Patrick Lewis and First Night of Hanukkah by Ruth Roston.
Thank you all for the comments and good wishes. And Anna B, thank you for telling me about your aunt. Perhaps you will want to alert the Academy of American Poets about those poems?
Erika Dreifus lives and writes in New York City. Her story collection, Quiet Americans, will be published in January 2011 by Last Light Studio Books. Erika is a contributing editor for The Writer magazine and an advisory board member forJ Journal: New Writing on Justice, and she wrote the section on "Choosing a Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing" for the second edition of Tom Kealey's Creative Writing MFA Handbook (Continuum, 2008). Erika's writing practice encompasses fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. For more about Erika's writing, please visit her website.
Erika is also the editor/publisher of The Practicing Writer, a free (and popular) e-newsletter featuring advice, opportunities, and resources on the craft and business of writing for fictionists, poets, and writers of creative nonfiction.
4 comments:
And to you, Erika.
Happy Chanukah.
Happy Chanukah, Erika.
My late aunt, the poet Myra Cohn Livingston, published many anthologies nominally for children (along with many books of her own work). One, published in 1986, is Poems for the Jewish Holidays. There are two Hanukah poems in it, Dreidl by J.Patrick Lewis and First Night of Hanukkah by Ruth Roston.
Thank you all for the comments and good wishes. And Anna B, thank you for telling me about your aunt. Perhaps you will want to alert the Academy of American Poets about those poems?
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