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Yehoshua November
Yehoshua November is the author of the poetry collection God’s Optimism, which was a finalist for the 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry. He teaches writing at Rutgers University and Touro College and lives with his wife and five children in Teaneck, New Jersey.
Poetry
The Buttonhook
My son sprinted to each traffic light / in his black hat and dark Sabbath suit / while the elderly congregation two miles away / waited for him to help lead morning prayers.
July 2021
Poetry
Selected Poems
— from “Falling From The Sky” | When we found out our daughter had gone deaf, / I did not question God’s fairness
October 2018
Poetry
The Soul In A Body
is like an old Russian immigrant / looking out his apartment’s only window.
August 2016
Poetry
Between Lifetimes
But love is a rusting machine / you call to have serviced over and over again, / hoping the pieces won’t have to be replaced. Again and again / you apply the grease until the engine inches forward.
December 2013
Poetry
At The Request Of The Organization For Jewish Prisoners
Three bearded rabbinical students in a rented car, / trunk filled with menorah kits and grape-juice bottles, / we pulled away from the all-male yeshiva in New Jersey / and headed west, into the heart of Pennsylvania, to celebrate / Chanukah with the Jewish inmates of Allenwood’s many prisons.
July 2013
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