TWO POEMS by CELIA DROPKIN

A Summer Sonata I bathed in fresh, clear waters, I saw my white feet through…

Commenter Executions

Gawker has weekly executions of tiresome commenters, and these work out pretty well in that…

Angetevka

The minister jokes that there are three topics guaranteed to draw a big crowd to…

The Pleasures and Perils of Google Alerts

Thanks to Google Alerts, I get a daily email listing the previous day’s blogs in…

Jewcy Zeitgeist: You Could Call It “Agaska,” R.I.P. Mitch Mitch and Watch Out For The Feisty German Poor

News you can use to avoid actually having to open a newspaper. The Obama Administration…

Sharon Dolin and the Music of Nature

One of my favorite poets, Sharon Dolin, has four poems up at Nextbook. The first,…

Detailing the Decades

Like many Americans, I find myself in front of my TV on Sunday nights, watching…

Jews and Germany: We’ve Got Roots On Rose Street

We were a group of Jews that had come on an organized tour of Berlin…