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Seeding Family-based Poems with Golems, Dybukks and Shpilkas

October 30 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT

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An event every week that begins at 8:00 am on Thursday, repeating until November 13, 2025

$180
Thursdays, October 23, 30 and November 6, 13, 2025
12-1:30 p.m. ET
$180
 
What Inspires Your Poetry?
 
In Jewish tradition, stories and symbols shimmer with possibility—golems who guard and protect, dybbuks who haunt and unsettle, wise sayings passed down in mameloshen (Yiddish and other beloved tongues). These mythic images and words have traveled through generations, carrying echoes of our history, humor, and heart.
 
In this Immersion with poet Susan Comninos, we’ll step into this rich imaginative landscape, exploring how folklore, family stories, and cultural memory can awaken new inspiration for your writing. Susan will guide us in weaving together personal history and timeless myth, crafting poems that honor our creative inheritance while speaking in our own, present-day voices. Come to reflect, to write, and to join others in a circle of Jewish creativity—where the past and present meet on the page
 
All sessions will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.
 
Susan Comninos is a woman with short dark hair in a black top, smiling softly, with hand resting on her neck against a dark background.Susan Comninos is a widely published writer and author of a recent book of poems, “Out of Nowhere” (Stephen F. Austin Univ. Press/Texas A&M, 2022). Her individual poems, often on Jewish themes, have appeared in the Harvard Review Online, Rattle, The Common, Prairie Schooner and North American Review, among others. She’s taught writing to undergraduates at Siena College, The College of St. Rose and SUNY Albany, as well as to adults in the community. She is currently at work on a second collection of poems, called “Wild Joy of Receiving” and is the poetry editor for Judith. She lives in upstate New York.
 

Details

Date:
October 30
Time:
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
EDT
Cost:
$180
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Organizer

Susan Comninos

Venue

Zoom

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