Available for pre-order: All the Holes Line Up, my new book of poetry and translations!

All The Holes Line Up is my first book of poetry entirely in English (well, there is one poem in Yiddish — I couldn’t help myself). The volume includes verse on topics as diverse as cities, God, death, and brothels.

The center of the collection is devoted to poems accompanied and inspired by the photographs of Jeremy Kargon. Kargon, a graphic designer and architect, is an artist with the camera as well, and captured images of a number of houses of worship — mosques, churches, and synagogues — which motivate my meditations on the intersections of the divine and the profane. “The Sanctity of Others” is the title of this middle section (which happens to be displayed, as well, at the Morgan State University chapel).

Another section of the book includes my own translations from Hebrew, Yiddish, and Chinese.

All the Holes Line Up is available for preorder from the publisher, Ben Yehuda Press (part of its Jewish Poetry Project series) or on Amazon.

Publication date: January 21!