Yiskah Rosenfeld

Poems and Essays

“Bird Call Koan with Glossary” and essay, Omnium Gatherum Quarterly, 2023

“In Dreams and Chagall Paintings Everything is You” and “TecheletVoices, Israel Anthology 2023

“Birdwatcher,” “Morning After a Vipassana Retreat,” and “The Letter YodVoices, Israel Anthology 2022

 “Brown-headed Cowbirds” Wild Roof Journal  2022

 “A Study of Mice on Restricted Calorie Diets” Beyond Words  2022

“View from my Home Office Window” Pandemic Poems Anthology  2021

“Little Girl Blue” Crosswinds Poetry Journal 2021

Yehi Or: And there was Light” Why To These Rocks: 50th Anniversary Anthology of the Community of Writers  2020

“Drought” and “The Day I Woke Tikkun Online Magazine  2020

“Safety Matches” Slippery Elm Journal  2020

 “On the Occasion of My Daughter’s First Night at Camp” Written Here 2020 

“Poetry Submission Guidelines” Ocotillo Review 2020 

“Inside the Room, Outside the Night” december magazine  2019

“Arterials” The Bitter Oleander  2019

“Learning the Essentials (etzem)” Hippocrates Awards Anthology  2019

“Love Poem After Atonement” and “Seventh Day in the Valley” 2River Review  2019

 “What Went On Without You” Glintmoon  2019

 “Sunny Side Up” Typishly  2018

“Summoning the Shechina” Gratitudes: To Our Mothers Anthology 2018 

Hamsah,” “Rio Caliente,” “Ode to an Ear of Corn,” “Goldilocks at Fourteen” The Ravens Perch  2018

“A Poet’s Guide to Gathering and Naming” and “The Apple and the Fig Tree” Levee Magazine  2017

 “Notturno in D, Arad Israel” Full: Anthology of Moon Poems  2016

“Klippot,” “Naamah,” “How the Sun Makes Love to the Moon” Blue Lyra Review 2013

 “NissanThe Bitter Oleander  2012

“A Lesson in Fractions” Well of Living Waters 2011; winner of Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize 2010

Tishre Lilith Magazine  2010

“Blessing for my Knees” Maggid  2008

“A Woman Asks to Be Named” Kerem  2007

 “Miriam’s Well” and “Miriam Speaks” Bridges Jewish Feminist Journal 2007 

 “Meridians” The Bitter Oleander  2005 

 “Girl With Pomegranates” Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts  Spring 2005

“Driving My Mother to Acupuncture” Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts  Fall  2004

 “Alms” The Bitter Oleander  2004

“7 AM at the Western Wall” Lilith Magazine  2003

“By the Oaks of Mamre” Natural Bridge 2003

“The States that Made Me” Comet Magazine 2003

 “A Song of Songs” The Bitter Oleander 2002

“Shooting the Square” Cottonwood Magazine  2002

“Tashlich” Lilith Magazine  2002

“The Liquid of Life” The Bitter Oleander  2001

“Saturday Laundry” and “Kansas, Summer, Night” Coracle  2001

“Eve’s Confession” Yentl’s Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism

“All These Gaps” The Seattle Review  2001

 “Psalm for Day’s End” Rattle 2000, Fishdrum 2001 (translated into Hebrew)

“Entrance to the Letter AlephThe Bitter Oleander 2000

 “Desert is a Mouth Opening,” “Two Dreams at Beth-El,” “The Carnation that Defied Simile,”

   “Landscape of the Heart” The Bitter Oleander 1999

 “The Desert is the Heart’s Casino” and “Inheritance” Red Rock Review  1999                 

“Tree of Knowledge” Voices, Israel  1997

Sample Essays

“Jewish American Women’s Poetry: An Overview”Jewish Women of America: An Historical Encyclopedia  1999;  revised for Jewish Women’s Archive 2020

 “Skin Deep: Scratching the Surface of Miriam” Women in Judaism Vol 7, Number 2 2010

 “You Take Lilith, I’ll Take Eve” Yentl’s Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism 2001

“Taking Back Our Rites: Challah, mikveh, and the laws of married sex,” Lilith Magazine 2001

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