What Poems Do We Need Right Now?


Learning to Love the Questions

That’s the question Tricia Knoll‘s poetry group responded to just before she read my introductory post from last month. She thought it was a pretty cool segue from her group’s question to this blog’s title—Learning To Love The Questions—and she was nice enough to take the time to write me about it. I also thought […]

Allow Me To Introduce Myself


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…