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The literary magazine of Jerusalism

The Green Woman
by Haim Watzman
July 11, 2021

“She stood there, where he had seen her decades before, where perhaps she had been stationed at the dawn of time.”

Mole Rat
by Meir Shalev and Joanna Chen
June 21, 2021

“The mole rat is a reclusive creature that disapproves of all other beings and particularly abhors its own kind.”

Stop talking about words
by Gali-Dana Singer and Liza Michaeli
June 6, 2021

“stop talking about words / talk with words / contentedly / sufficiently / fully”

Russim
by David Stromberg
May 23, 2021

“These circumstances led to all kinds of horror stories – one of which I’ll share today.”

5 Poems by Susan Afterman
by Susan Afterman and Linda Stern Zisquit
May 9, 2021

“Also my mother and also me / it turns out / were pregnant // and we miscarried on the same day”

Dirty Laundry
by Anat Hinkis-Atzmon and Omer Berkman
April 27, 2021

“I would have given anything to save him. You, I can’t save.”

HaShoah thru Poetry
by Mindy Aber Barad, Helen Bar-Lev, Joanna Chen, Micha Danziger, Wendy Dickstein, Sari Ellen, Judith Fineberg, Larry Lefkowitz, Diti Ronen, Jacqueline Schaalje, Yael Unterman.
April 8, 2021

“Go, go to Auschwitz. / Maybe you’ll get a few poems out of it. “

The Golem of Tel Aviv
by Benjamin Kerstein
March 21, 2021

“In one dream, he and the Golem had shared a cigarette.”

Legends & Dreams: a poetry exchange
by Gabriel Levin and Zali Gurevitch
February 21, 2021

“So whose dream are we talking of? Or perhaps we should ask for whom was the dream intended?”

BASS 1998 (excerpts)
by Karen Marron
February 8, 2021

“I believe in Gilad. I believe he will advise the shit out of everyone’s investments.”

Watermelon Ultrasound
by Nir Hezroni and Josh Friedlander
January 31, 2021

“What kind of vaccines do you give a baby that came from a watermelon?”

Adeena Karasick interviewed by Joelle Milman
by Joelle Milman and Adeena Karasick
October 23, 2020

“It’s so important that you trust your own vision, and just create your own unique powerful universe that you want to inhabit.”