The annual Metula Poetry Festival, one of the highlights of the poetry year, will take place this year in Jerusalem.  It will take place at the Confederation House and at Mishkenot Shaananim from August 26-8, and I’ll be appearing on all three days.  Check the program out here  confederationhouse

For me the first day is reading poems influenced by prostitution in the holocaust.  The second day is about erotic poetry.  On the third day I’m supposed to be speaking about immigrant identity.  All this is stuff you’ve heard before if you’ve been reading this, but everyone who’s leading the panel has an agenda and will make it new.  

I am praying that by then we will have at least partially solved the problems that are creating this terrible war and these subjects will be relevant…