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Julie R. Enszer 

Julie R. Ensz­er is a schol­ar and poet. She is the author of four col­lec­tions of poet­ry: Avowed, Lilith’s Demons, Sis­ter­hood, and Hand­made Love, and is the edi­tor of The Com­plete Works of Pat Park­er and Milk & Hon­ey: A Cel­e­bra­tion of Jew­ish Les­bian Poet­ry. 

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Fic­tion
22 Min­utes of Uncon­di­tion­al Love
Daphne Merkin
Poet­ry
The Full Pome­gran­ate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever
Avrom Sutzkeverk, Richard J. Fein (trans.), Justin Cammy (intro.)  
Fic­tion
The Tree and the Vine
Dola de Jong, Kristen Gehrman (trans.)
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Willa & Hesper
Amy Felt­man
Essay

Les­bian-Fem­i­nist Midrash II: Stein and Sinclair

Les­bian-fem­i­nist poet and schol­ar Julie R. Ensz­er has been blog­ging for The Pros­en­Peo­ple this week on poet­ry, loss, and the pio­neers of Amer­i­can Jew­ish les­bian…
Julie R. Enszer 
November 15, 2013
Essay

The Act of Writ­ing a Poem

“Inte­ri­or mono­logue of the poet: the notes for the poem are the only poem” —from ​“Images for Godard” in The Will to Change (1971) by Adri­enne Rich The act of…
Julie R. Enszer 
November 14, 2013
Essay

Les­bian-Fem­i­nist Midrash: Nice Jew­ish Girls

Les­bian-fem­i­nist poet and schol­ar Julie R. Ensz­er blogs this week for The Pros­en­Peo­ple on the sem­i­nal Jew­ish les­bian voic­es of the pre­vi­ous gen­er­a­tion and the…
Julie R. Enszer 
November 13, 2013

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