I have never consciously tried for it, but I can if you promise not to mock the living snot out of me.
I suspect it's because it's a lot of weight to bring to something as compact as a poem, and not many people are all that good at packing in genre and cultural nuance in the same piece. By the time you decide for yourself what speculative is, in the context of your images, you then also need to decide how much Jew to add. It's a thing.
I think it's rather because spec. poets so often default to familiar tropes, tropes that everyone in the genre recognizes; for example, Brothers Grimm fairytales seem to be very popular, and everyone is writing them - Jews, PoC of different cultures/countries, white folks, everyone. In MoC, for example, I have a Holocaust Cinderella poem by a Jewish poet, and a lesbian Cinderella poem by a South American poet; chosen from a veritable pageant of Cinderellas. I am not sure that say, dybbuks are less recognizable than Cinderella at this point, but here you go. Part of our work for ST is to try to encourage poets to take more chances, rather than default to the familiar. It seems to be working. Which is to say, yes, please, I'd love to see Jewish poems, or anything else-poems from you. :-)
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I suspect it's because it's a lot of weight to bring to something as compact as a poem, and not many people are all that good at packing in genre and cultural nuance in the same piece. By the time you decide for yourself what speculative is, in the context of your images, you then also need to decide how much Jew to add. It's a thing.
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Part of our work for ST is to try to encourage poets to take more chances, rather than default to the familiar. It seems to be working.
Which is to say, yes, please, I'd love to see Jewish poems, or anything else-poems from you. :-)
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I wouldn't even if I hadn't promised. Go for it.