A photo-poem for Sukkot in celebration of shelter and wandering, harvest and shared meals.
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Esther Cohen
Esther Cohen is a novelist and poet living in New York City. She’s the author of several books, including Book Doctor. Read more of her writing on her blog I Am and I Am Not.
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Three poems to celebrate new beginnings every day, atoning, and reconciling.
With the celebrations of Easter and Passover in our rearview mirrors, a poem and a postcard for the year to come.
A photo-poem to celebrate the first night of Passover and life's endless series of stories.
Our lives and our liberations are bound up in each other. A photo-poem exploration of hope, freedom, and the meaning of exodus.
For the final night of Hanukkah, a poem brought on by Allen Ginsberg.
The penultimate night celebrates getting older and the embers within.
Finding the light isn't difficult if you find the kindness that stands before you in the face of someone you may never have met. A poem for Hanukkah.
Just past the midpoint of the festival of lights, a glowing reminder that people sometimes say no.
The light of Hanukkah can be found in the voice. A postcard on the fondness of listening and the musical warmth of words.
Sometimes a poem offers insight into a dream or an event in the news. And sometimes it's about the everyday thing that never occurs.
To round out the second day of Hanukkah, a poem on bringing the light through the art of asking.
Our first postcard from Hanukkah reminds us of the importance of light, and to find it wherever we can: in strangers, in family, in friends.
For the Jewish High Holy Days, two poems by Esther Cohen paired with photography from Matthew Septimus. They offer words that sound like music, and postcards that become visual prayers and emblems of hope.
What unites us all is that we all have mothers. A poet traces the path of her life through her Rumanian grandmother and the women who followed.
The opportunity to hear and tell stories, holidays or not, is one of the great pleasures and lucky miracles of life. A picture and a short poem for the final day of Passover.
Some days you remember forever and ever. A picture and a poem to celebrate Haggadah possibilities during Passover.
A rabbi once said that life consists of 72 stories. As we yearn to find ways to be together in this world, we're reminded that it’s always in the telling.
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