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.
Dan Alter, Owen Lewis, Dana Levin, and Ira Sadoff
Dan Alter is the author of two collections of poetry: My Little Book of Exiles (Eyewear, 2002) winner of the Cowan Poetry Prize, and Hills Full of Holes (Fernwood, 2025). He is also the translator of Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited (Ben Yehuda, 2024), from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe. His poems, reviews and translations have been published widely. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.
Dana Levin is the author of five books poetry. Her latest is Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon), a 2022 New York Times Notable Book and NPR “Book We Love.” She is a grateful recipient of honors from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN, and the Library of Congress, as well as from the Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations. Levin teaches for the Bennington Writing Seminars, the MFA program at Bennington College, and serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis. She is an editor for Poetry Daily and a member of the Advisory Council for Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry. Her first book of prose, House of Feels, comes out from Graywolf Press in 2027.
Owen Lewis is the author of four collections of poetry and three chapbooks, most recently, "A Prayer of Six Winger". His prior collection "Field Light" was a "Must Read" selection of the New England Book Awards. Honors include the 2024 E.E Cummings Prize, the 2023 Guernsey International Poetry Prize, the 2023 Rumi Prize for Poetry, the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. At Columbia University he is Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics and teaches Narrative Medicine. He was a fellow at the Yetzirah conferences of 2024 and 2025, and remains grateful to this community. (
www.owenlewispoet.com)
Ira Sadoff is the prize-winning author of nine collections of poetry, most recently "Country Living", a novel, an Ira Sadoff Reader, a critical book, History Matters: Contemporary Poetry on the Margins of American Culture, and more than three hundred poems, stories and essays in magazines like "The New Yorker", "Poetry", "American Poetry Review", "The Nation" and "The New Republic". Recipient of awards from Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA and the Poetry Society of America, he's taught at the Iowa Writer's workshop, the University of Virginia's MFA program, Warren Wilson's MFA program, Hampshire College, Hobart and William Smith College (where he co-founded "The Seneca Review"), Antioch College (where he served as poetry editor of "The Antioch Review") and Colby College.
