Ikh bin a reyzender dritn klas

[sovay]

Seriously, where is the Jewish speculative poetry? I refuse to resort to editing Wandering Stars: In Verse to find out.

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[helivoy.livejournal.com]

There's Jane Yolen and Marge Piercy, among the big older names. Also, I'd expect a fair amount of it to be written in Hebrew.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to remember if Vic Elias had any SF poems. He certainly read SF and wrote on Jewish themes. I'm going to have to go back through his collections and see if any of them intersected.

[desayunoencama.livejournal.com]

A Midsummer Night's Press is bringing out a collection by Jane Yolen, THE LAST SELCHIE CHILD. Will have to check if there is anything Jewish in the collection.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Lucy Schmeidler too. batyatoon reminded me of a poem of hers that qualifies, but I can't remember the title. I'll try to get batyatoon to swing by.

[rose-lemberg.livejournal.com]

Re: Hebrew, I went through my back issues of Khalomot Beaspamia, and found only a few poems, none of them Jewish-themed. I don't have all the back issues of Khalomot, but from memory the Israeli fandom is not very big on specpo. Of course, Lavie is the person to ask...