Chaim ben Avram

https://rootsandwords.substack.com/p/from-the-garden-of-realizing-turquoise

https://www.hoolanapublishing.org/chapbooks/

When asked “Where does the Holy One dwell?” the Kotzker Rebbe famously answered, “Wherever you let Him in.”

…the desert cropping up in your field

of vision.

I eye its well

by hand…

I feel incredibly fortunate to share this poetry, as it came to be through my experimenting with Hebrew. And to have found it a home in Ilanot Review’s “Translation and Transition” issue inspires joy and awe.

desertification

These days the topography of life varies, oftentimes violently. I’m incredibly grateful for the stabilizing forces in my life: among them, poetry.

Oxford Poetry (issue 98)

“I color our walls the white of my tooth, so as to signify my surrender to tears our tongues wept.”

Overjoyed to share “on our last day in new york” with The Penn Review in their Spring Issue 73. – CBA

https://www.pennreview.org/on-our-last-day-in-new-york

Deeply honored to have aliyah (a primer) appear in Issue 56.1 of Denver Quarterly. Thank you, Lucien and fellow editors! To see these verses in print inspires awe and gratitude, as they are the first to appear in my novel… which I just finished… and which is slated for defense come early May. Halevai, CBA

Happy to have found an anti-creation myth and passenger manifest a home in the latest issue of Foothill Poetry Journal (https://arts.cgu.edu/foothill-journal/). And deeply honored to have had the former nominated by their marvelous staff for a Pushcart Prize!

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