Join the JCC for monthly readings as part of a Jewish Poetry Series, hosted by Philip Terman and Baruch November. Each month will feature different Jewish poets reading selections of poems that include but are not limited to Jewish themes, values and ideas. Free and Open to the Public.

Joshua Weiner, Julia Knobloch, and David Caplan

Joshua Weiner is the author of three books of poetry (all from Chicago) and a book of political/cultural reportage, Berlin Notebook: Where Are the Refugees?  His poems and essays have appeared widely in places such as "American Scholar", "Washington Post", "Chicago Tribune", "New York Review of Books", "Brick", "New Republic", "The Nation", "Poetry", "Chicago Review", "Yale Review", and elsewhere.  His translation of Nelly Sachs’s Flight & Metamorphosis was published by Farrar Straus Giroux in March 2022.  He lives in Washington D.C. and teaches at University of Maryland.

Julia Knobloch received rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College in Los  Angeles. She is the author of  three poetry collections: Liner Notes (Kelsay Books, 2025); Book of Failed Salvation (Ben Yehuda Press, 2021); Do not Return (Broadstone Books, 2019). As a poet, Julia is interested in exploring the sensation of simultaneity; the different layers of the experience of place and time, and she often infuses her writing with Jewish imagery and teachings. About her most recent collection, Liner Notes, poet David L. Ulin has said: "Moving fluidly across years and continents, the poems evoke the largest movements in the smallest moments, leaving a trace, a record of associations, a series of echoes and images that add up to a vivid tapestry. Wise and understated, playful and astute, this is work that creates its own form."

David Caplan is the Daisy Deane Frensley Chair in English Literature at Southern Methodist and the author of seven books of literary criticism and poetry. His most recent book is the poetry collection, North Shore, which Ben Yehuda published this year.  His awards include the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry from "Virginia Quarterly Review", and Individual Excellence Award in Criticism from the Ohio Arts Council and two Fulbright Lectureships in American Literature.