Tag Archives: Alicia Ostriker

America: Indivisible Despite the Divides

As the American election hangs in the balance, Alicia Ostriker holds two contradictory visions of America in balance.

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Poems for Judaism’s High Holy Days

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Ostriker: Still Carried Away by America

Ostriker’s “America the Beautiful” acknowledges two Americas but speaks to the ideal of indivisibility, as expressed in the “Pledge of Allegiance.”

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Entering the Days of Awe

Spiritual Sunday Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is a time of year when Jews do a spiritual self assessment and take upon themselves responsibility for the sins of the world. As the “days of awe” commence this coming Wednesday, I went looking for a good Rosh Hashanah poem. I found an excellent one by […]

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