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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[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

I refuse to resort to editing Wandering Stars: In Verse to find out.

If you did, I would love to read it. I'd buy.

Nine

[rosefox]

There's probably some in Milk and Honey but I haven't read the whole thing yet, so I couldn't tell you for sure.

[farwing.livejournal.com]

Uh...that would be all kinds of awesome, actually.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

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.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Well, I count on *you* to write it. You've written some lovely pieces. And rose_lemberg, she's written some lovely speculative verse with a Jewish flavor.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/04/when-we-were-robots-in-egypt

Only one I've done, I'm afraid.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I have one, but I've never sent it anywhere because it wasn't very good or marketable or the like.

That said, good idea! I think we should make mattkressel do it.

[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.

[rosefox]

Also, the person to ask about this--and nudge until he edits the anthology--is Lawrence Schimel, since he conveniently owns a poetry publishing company.

[gwynnega]

I am wracking my brain trying to remember whether some of the Jewish feminist poems I've read over the years might be speculative. Maybe Marge Piercy or Irena Klepfisz?

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew, so that I could tell you.

I feel for you: the lack of SF/F in Irish is something I find very frustrating.

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

Is there any sort of anthology you would be interested in editing? (Forgive me if someone else has already asked this.) Are there any other book projects or book series you'd be interested in editing?