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Learning to Love the Questions

My name is Richard Jeffrey Newman, author of T’shuvah, which Fernwood Press published in 2023. I’ll be blogging here at Learning To Love The Questions about the work poetry does in the world when it engages, or is engaged by, the political and spiritual aspects of our individual and communal lives. I’ll tell you the […]

First Post Coming In July!


Learning to Love the Questions

Learning to love the questions, a phrase that captures one of the enduring lessons I took away from my time in a yeshiva high school, also embodies the role that poetry—writing it, reading it, sharing it—plays in my life. I look forward to sharing my thoughts about this with you starting in July. Till then…