Bibliography

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POETRY PUBLICATIONS

Books

70 Faces, published by Phoenicia Publishing (Montreal), 2011. ISBN 0986690910. "The Akedah Cycle," a series of poems in this collection, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2011.
Chapbook Through, a collection of poems arising out of miscarriage, self-published, 2009. Available as an at-cost chapbook from Lulu or a free download here at my blog.
Chapbook chaplainbook, published by Laupe House Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1-4116-9590-0.
Chapbook What Stays, part of the Bennington Writing Seminars Alumni Chapbook Series, 2002.
Chapbook the skies here, published by Pecan Grove Press (San Antonio, TX), 1995. ISBN 1-877603-31-7. Currently out of print.

Anthologies

"Eating Like Canaanites" published in Holding True: An Anthology of Berkshire Poets, Mad River Press (Richmond, MA), 1999.
"Stacking Wood" published in The Best of Pif Magazine Off-Line, Fusion Press, 2000.
"November" published in Crossing Paths: An Anthology of Poems by Women, Mad River Press, 2002.
"Christmas at the Ranch" published in Is This Forever , Or What? Poems and Paintings from Texas, Greenwillow Books, 2004.
"So Powerful Much" published in Inklings, Vol. I, Inkberry, 2004.
"What We Learn at Readings," "How It Is For Me," "Bird Call," "Can," and "Elegy" published in Cyber Collaboration, Author House, 2004.
"Psalm for Tuesday," "The Old Year," "Everywhere," "Aninut," "Longing" published in Brilliant Coroners, Laupe House Press, 2007.
"Command (Tzav)" and "Eating the Apple" will appear in The New Promised Land: 120 Contemporary Jewish American Poets, ed. Deborah Ager and Matthew Silverman, date as-yet unknown.

Periodicals

American Poets & Poetry, volume as-yet unknown, "Live Oak" and "Miami Kichel."
The Berkshire Review, Vol. 4, 1996, "Carol Cable Co."
The Berkshire Review, Vol. 5, 1997, "That we appear to each other at all."
The Berkshire Review, Vol. 8, 2000, "Gifts."
The Berkshire Review, Vol. 9, 2001, "Jazz."
The Berkshire Review, Vol. 10, 2002, "Practice Piece."
The Berkshire Review, Vol. 11, 2003, "What Comes of Trees."
Bottomfish, Number 18, 1997, "November," "About redemption," "At the end of the millennium."
Buffalo Bones, Vol. III, No. 3, 1998, "Missed the boat."
California Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 3, "Remedy."
Caveat Lector, Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer 1998, "1939."
Coe Review, Issue 27, 1997, "At the end of the millennium."
Comstock Review, Vol. II, No. 2, Fall 1997, "About redemption."
Confrontation, No. 66/67, Fall 1998/Winter 1999, "November."
Drash, Volune One, Spring/Summer 2007, "People of the Book."
Faultline, Vol. VII, 1998, "Some days."
Flyway, Vol 3.3, Winter 1997, "The artist's barn cat."
The Hawaii Pacific Review, Vol 12, Fall 1998, "February."
Illya's Honey, Vol. 3, No. 3, Fall 1997, "Resolutions."
Jewish Women's Literary Annual, Vol. 3, 1998, "Some days."
Jewish Women's Literary Annual, Vol. 4, 1999-2000, "Sometimes Still Warm."
Jewish Women's Literary Annual, Vol. 5, 2003, "Kneidl."
Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling, 2008, "First Night."
Mangrove, Summer 2000, "Bleach."
Mobius, November, 1998, "Lightning and telenovelas," "Wrapped in down."
New Orleans Review, Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring 1998, "Noah is breathing language."
No Exit, Vol. V, No. 2, Summer 1998, "Goldenrod."
The North Adams Transcript, May 2, 2002,, "Green Thumb."
Pax, Vol. II, No. 2, Summer 1984, "On the Outside."
Phoebe, Vol 11, No. 2, Fall 1999, "What Stays."
Plainsongs, Vol. XIX, No. 2, Winter 1999, "Gourmet Living."
The Pedestal Magazine, Fall 2004, "No Alternatives."
Poetica, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 2003, "Surprises."
Poetica, Vol. 2, No. 2, July 2004, "Uncle Bill."
Portfolio, October 1996, "Imperfections."
The Portland Review, Vol. 46, No. 2, Winter 1998 "Apple Season."
The Lyric, Vol. 78, No. 4, Fall 1998, "The World Transforms."
Response, volume not yet known, "Why Don't We All Make Aliyah?"
The River's Edge, No. 4, Spring 1997, "Missed the boat," "Cut his hair ," "Your tinfoil or your jewels."
The San Antonio Express-News, date unknown (2000), "Victrola" and "My Grandfather Sang in Czech."
The Texas Observer, Vol. 94, No.1, Jan. 18 2002, "Christmas at the Ranch," "Lustre King" and "Morning Prayers."
Texas Poetry Calendar 2003, "Live Oak." Flying Cow Productions, Fredericksburg, TX.
The Underwood Review, Vol. 4, spring 2003, "What We Can't Buy."
Wisconsin Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, fall 2003, "Coffee Talk."
Zeek, print edition spring/summer 2005, "Asher yatzar."

Online:

Eclectica.org, 1996, "1939".
Free Zone Quarterly, Fall 1997, "Hills of Argos"
The Forward, January 12, 2011, "Birch Magazine."
Frostwriting, 2008, "Lunar Eclipse," "Tzav Pantoum," and "Knowledge".
Gruene Street, Summer 1996, "Your Godmother and the Egg".
Jewish Voice for Peace Passover Haggadah, 2011, "Freedom."
Melusine, November 2009, "Vessel (Shemini)."
OCHO #24: Twitter Poets Edition, "Hymn to August" (also available in hard copy)
Oracle, Fall 1997, "Envelope," "Resolutions".
Paper, Fall 1998, "First of January".
Pif Magazine, May 1998, "Stacking wood" (prose poem, published as microfiction).
Poetry Super Highway, April 2000, "Uncle Bill," "Grace," "Like the Negev," "Mother Psalm," "Miami Kichel" (Poet of the Week April 10-16).
Qarrtsiluni, January 2006 "Visit."
Qarrtsiluni, February 2007 "Last week of the farm."
Qarrtsiluni, March 2010, "Body."
Qarrtsiluni, November 2011," Without Ceasing."
Scribblers on the Roof, November 2009, Instead of Sons.
Scribblers on the Roof, December 2009, Sufganiyot.
Scribblers on the Roof, November 2009, "Instead of Sons (Vayechi)."
Shma, September 2011, So Avraham Took the Ram ((That link goes to the poem in the beautifully-formatted digital magazine; if you prefer you can also read it as a webpage, here.) With Matthew Zapruder, Yerra Sugarman, and Kathryn Hellerstein.
Tel Shemesh, August 2004, Two Elul Poems ("Numerology" and "Immersion").
The 365 Project, Week One, Day Three 2003, "The Message".
The 365 Project, Month Three, Day 16 2003, "No Alternatives".
Zeek, December 2004, "Sufganiyot."
Zeek, June 2008, "Three poems from the Brakhot Series."
Zeek, June 2010, "Night Feeding" and "Walking and Falling at the Same Time."

NONFICTION PUBLICATIONS

In Books

Co-wrote the "No Longer a Wine Spectator" chapter in Tripod's Tools for Life, Hyperion Press, 1998.
"Interview With Naomi Shihab Nye" published in The Best of Pif Magazine Offline, Fusion Press, 2000.
Co-wrote the "Planning for Long-Living Women" chapter of Money Order: The Guide to Money Management for Women, Simon & Schuster, April 2001.
"Is Judaism Necessarily Insular?" appears in The Guide to Jewish Interfaith Family Life: An InterfaithFamily.com Handbook, Jewish Lights Publishing, 2001.
"To Make Our Hands Holy" appears in The Women's Seder Sourcebook, Jewish Lights Publishing, 2002.
"Interview With Naomi Shihab Nye" reprinted in Rising Star, a middle school ESL textbook, Longman Publishers, 2003.
Essay on the life and work of Alicia Ostriker appears in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, Oxford University Press, 2003.
Short essays on the life and work of Marge Piercy and Thomas Lux appear in Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry, Facts on File, 2004.
Essays on the life and work of David Lehman, Amy Gerstler, Wendell Berry, Maxine Kumin, and Alicia Ostriker appear in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry, Greenwood, 2005.
Contributed several mini-essays to God? Jewish Choices for Struggling with the Ultimate, Torah Aura Publications, 2008.

Newspapers / Magazines / Journals / Radio

Regular arts/lifestyle features for The Advocate, 1998-1999.
Regular arts/lifestyle features for The Bennington Banner, 1998 - 1999.
Regular articles and stories for The Women's Times, 1999 - 2001.
A wide variety of freelance articles from 1998 onward, from The San Antonio Express-News to Berkshire Living.
"It's Better Blurred" appeared on The Round Table, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, July 16th, 2002.
"Wearing Pants in Shul" in Lilith, Fall 2003.
"Blog is my copilot" in Bitch, Fall 2004.
"Feeding the Belly, Feeding the Heart" appeared in The Women's Times, November 2004.
"My America" appeared on The Round Table, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, November 11, 2004.
Monthly column in The Berkshire Eagle, starting with "A Passage to Pittsfield", 2004-2005.
"Jewish Feminist Blogs -- An Unlikely Sisterhood" in Lilith, Vol. 30 No. 3, Fall 2005.
"Playing in the Texts: A Conversation with Rachel Adler" in Zeek, the "Sex, Gender, and God" issue, Spring 2009.
Profile of Richard Kostelanetz in Zeek, Summer 2009.
"Transformative Works: Midrash and Fanfiction" in Religion and Literature, issue 43.2, summer 2011.

Online:

"Guide to Five-Dollar Wines", Tripod: Living (no longer archived), 1996
"The Great American Roadtrip", series of six travel articles, Tripod: Travel (no longer archived), 1996.
"Lali," Bubbe.com, 1997.
"Keeping the Faith," unGROOM'd, October 1998.
Regular book reviews (mostly poetry and nonfiction) at Pif Magazine, from Dec. 1998.
"Religious Pluralism in Israel", in Pif Magazine, February 1999.
"Polar Exploration: Mind Over Matter," in Jackhammer E-Zine, Issue 9, Vol. 2, March 1999.
"Prose Poems and Microfiction" in In Posse Review, Issue 3, Vol. 1, 1999. Also published in La Petite Zine, 1999.
Interview with Naomi Shihab Nye, in Pif Magazine, August 1999.
"Is Judaism Necessarily Insular?" in InterfaithFamily.com, Nov. 3-17 issue, 2000.
"Marrying A Pareve Kid," in HalfJew.com, February 2001.
Review of "Yentl's Revenge" in The Hyde Park Review of Books, January 2002.
"Writing Our Own Hagaddah" in InterfaithFamily.com, February 2002.
"My Life in Fuck-Me Shoes" in Scarlet Letters, April 2002.
Review of "The Art of the Commonplace" by Wendell Berry in The Hyde Park Review of Books, summer 2002.
"Swimming at the Bedouin Beach" in GenerationJ.com, October 2002.
"December Holidays at Our House" in InterfaithFamily.com, December 2002.
"Queer Interfaith Couples Tell Their Stories" in InterfaithFamily.com, June 2003.
"Finding A Home" in InterfaithFamily.com, September 2003. Reprinted here in Jewish.com.
"Diaspora Grrl" in Bad Subjects, issue 67, Spring 2004.
"Navigating Jordan" in InterfaithFamily.com, August 2004.
"Connected" in The archaeology of food series at the vernacular body, October 7, 2004.
Review of Hayden Carruth's Letters to Jane at The King's English, Issue 4, Fall 2004.
Review of Anna Rabinowitz's Darkling at Web Del Sol Review of Books, 2005.
There and Back Again: A JuBu's Passage to India in Zeek, December 2005.
Souvenir in Qarrtsiluni, December 2006.
A semi-regular interview series, beginning with Ari Weller is in the happiness business in Zeek, January 2007. Others include David Ingber: Shaping an Integral Judaism (2007), Dreaming With Rodger Kamenetz (2008), and Playing in the Texts: A Conversation with Rachel Adler (2009 -- spring 2009 print issue only, not available online.)
Let's Talk About Sex, a review of Danya Ruttenberg's The Passionate Torah in The Jewish Daily Forward, July 29, 2009.
Allah is the Light: Prayer in Ramadan and Elul, an essay about the first Jewish-Muslim retreat for emerging religious leaders, in Zeek, September 15, 2009. NOTE: as of 2011, that link is no longer very readable, so I've reprinted the piece on my own blog: Allah is the Light: Prayer in Ramadan and Elul (Reprint).
Zuleikha in the Qur'an and in the Bible, a four-voiced essay (by two Muslim women and two Jewish women; I'm one of the latter) about the figure of Zuleikha, a.k.a. Potiphar's wife, in our dual sacred stories, in AltMuslimah, October 30, 2009.
The Goldstone Report: A Jewish View, reflections on liberal Jewish response to the Goldstone Report, at Al Jazeera (English), November 3, 2009.
Sara Hurwitz's "Rabba" Title Sparks Orthodox Jewish Condemnation , Religion Dispatches, March, 2010.
The Spirituality of Parenting, Zeek, June, 2010.
Parenthood and Prayer, Zeek, December, 2010.
New Teachings from Exodus: Berman and Waskow's Freedom Journeys, Zeek, March, 2011.
Merle Feld: Finding Her Words, Zeek, March, 2011.
Holy longing, holy language: Yehoshua November's "God's Optimism", Zeek, April, 2011.
Jewish scholars give perspective on the New Testament, The Berkshire Eagle, December, 2011.
In Song Together, interview with Linda Hirschhorn, Zeek, January, 2012.

EDITED

Local Writer's Workshop Anthology, ed. and with introduction by Rachel Barenblat, XLibris, 1999.
MFA program chapbook, Blue Benn Review, co-edited (with Susan McHenry). June 1999.
Brilliant Coroners, co-edited with Rachel Rawlins and published by Laupe House Press, an imprint of Phoenicia Publishing, 2007.

AWARDS/CONTESTS:

Runner-up, Academy of American Poets Contest, Williams College, 1994.
Winner, Academy of American Poets Contest, Williams College, 1995.
Featured Writer, San Antonio Poets and Writer's Page, May 1996.
"At the Races" nominated for inclusion in eSCENE, "[T]he yearly anthology of the world's best short fiction published on the Internet", 1998.
"Stacking Wood" chosen for Pif Magazine's third-year anniversary Best-of-Pif Issue, October 1998.
"The Akedah Cycle," a series of poems published in 70 faces, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2011.

Last updated on January 23, 2012.