Thanks to the editors of Ofthebook for sharing my new poem about my grandmother’s hands, and, of course, about more than her hands. ofthebookpress.com/bruce-black-...

Thanks to the editors of Tge Lehrhause for sharing my new poem. May the peace of Shabbat flow to all who need peace. thelehrhaus.com/culture/poet...

Many thanks to Bill Siegel for sharing his poem, "Meditations on My Yiddish Name," with The Jewish Writing Project, a moving exploration of family and Jewish history contained within the syllables of the Yiddish name he was given at birth.

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Thanks, Nina Zolotow, for sharing your father's story with The Jewish Writing Project about the time he spent in Germany after the war near a Displaced Persons camp and helped one of the camp's women, who was Jewish, get on a ship bound for Palestine.

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How do you know when you’re done revising your manuscript? Some helpful thoughts on Wordswimmer: wordswimmer.blogspot.com/2025/05/work...

Thanks, Linda Laderman, for sharing her poem in The Jewish Writing Project honoring the resilience of Holocaust survivors and marking Yom Hashoah later this week. jewishwritingproject.com/2025/04/21/s...

Every morning there's a kind of rhythm that comes with establishing a daily routine. And somehow the words appear. Here's the latest Wordswimmer post about finding a kind of rhythm.

Words chiseled above the door on Highland Park’s city hall. “The salvation of the community is watchfulness of the citizen” Prescient words from the past that can guide us in the present and future.

It's hard to put into words how I feel about being Jewish today. In "Unmoored," I explore some of the feelings that I've been dealing with since October 7th in the hope that I might gain some clarity on what it means to be a Jew today.

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Many thanks to Barbara Krasner for sharing her poem, "Henoch: An Inventory," in which she provides an inventory of sorts that, when viewed together, forms her family's history.

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Thanks to Lev Raphael for sharing with the Jewish Writing Project his story, “My Mother Museum,” a collection of unique portraits of his mother and the Jewish life she led: jewishwritingproject.com/2025/03/10/m...

Thanks to the editors at Of the Book for publishing my latest poem. Here’s a link if you’d like to take a look: ofthebookpress.com/bruce-black-...

With gratitude to JUDITH MAGAZINE for sharing my poems with readers on this day of sadness and for suggesting that the poems might reveal a glimmer of “hope within the fissures.” judithmagazine.substack.com/p/on-this-da... #judith #israel #poems #israelhostage #bringthemhomenow