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I Tried to Write Down What I Could in Last Night’s Dream

Posted on January 3, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 2 Comments

Maybe because we watched Mary Louise Parker act as a writing teacher at the theater yesterday (we liked the play and so did Dave who sat on my left and once rep...

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On New Year’s Day I Want a Poem

Posted on January 1, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

It Could Be Written by Someone Else. Mary Oliver or Naomi Shihab Nye or You. On New Year’s Day I want a poem that says 2020 is a different year fr...

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To Write It Down

Posted on December 30, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 6 Comments

New Years always a new chance to try. A bedroom full of notebooks of good enough intentions. Letters and poems I may one day write. Dear Laura I’ve star...

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Is Christmas a Poemless Holiday?

Posted on December 25, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

on some days when there are celebrations that preclude the possibility of poems, say Tisha B’av, Divali, and the middle days of Simhat Torah, on so...

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Jews in the Movies

Posted on December 18, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 10 Comments

At last night’s screening of a movie about a Chabad rabbi who went to Montana to put mezuzahs on doors of every Jew in Montana 4,000 Jews Shula next to ...

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My Life in Poems (Maybe Part 1 and Maybe Not)

Posted on December 17, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 1 Comment

Rain and too cold to go outside but I will go to yoga class because the gym has a sauna because I love our Tuesday teacher because I have to go to the store any...