Jessica Greenbaum's guest appearances

Jessica Greenbaum

Read Me a Poem

Central Synagogue Podcast

Let’s Talk Moral Injury

Debbie Friedman

Angela Buchdahl

Michael Twitty

Lori Koffman

Lisa Rubin

Kelly Brown Douglas

Mo Salth

Cantor Julia Cadrain

Nicole Auerbach

Deborah Lipstadt

Parashat VaYeitzei

Otis Moss

Stephen Sondheim

Dani Dayan

Sarah Berman

OwlTail

Amanda Holmes reads Jessica Greenbaum’s poem “The Yellow Star That Goes With Me.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman. This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amanda Holmes reads Jessica Greenbaum’s poem “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1991/03/25/the-yellow-star-that-goes-with-me" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">The Yellow Star That Goes With Me</a>.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman. This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

“The Yellow Star That Goes With Me” by Jessica Greenbaum

Jessica Greenbaum got in touch with us because decades after becoming an established poet and a teacher of poetry with three books and national recognition, she decided art can’t do everything and went back to school to become a social worker. Melding the fields of poetry and social work, she runs workshops for communities who have experienced trauma and she wanted to offer one to people who have considered themselves to have sustained moral injury. She has run such workshops for 9/11 First Responders, under the auspices of NYU Langone’s Medical Center; for people who have left Jewish Ultra-Orthodoxy, under the auspices of a service organization for that community called Footsteps, and for adult survivors of childhood brain tumors, under the auspices of the Child Brain Tumor Foundation. Inside academia she has taught at Barnard College and Vassar, and she also designs classes around Jewish text for two New York synagogues. She’s here to answer the question of why poetry people who feel they have sustained moral injury and how does it work? Resources: website: https://poemsincommunity.org/ bibliography Burack-Weiss, Lawrence &amp; Mijangos, editors, Narrative in Social Work Practice; the Power and Possibility of Story (Columbia University Press, 2017)Coleman, Elizabeth J, editor, Here: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon, 2019)Collins, Billy, editor, Poetry 180; A Turning Back to Poetry (Random House, 2003)Dungy, Camille T, editor, Black Nature; Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (U. Georgia Press, 2009)Herman, Judith, Trauma and Recovery (Basic, 1997)Hirsch, Edward, A Poet’s Glossary (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014)Levine, Peter, Waking the Tiger; Healing Trauma (North Atlantic, 1997)Press, Eyal, Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America (FSG, 2021)Stavans, Ilan, editor, All the Odes by Pablo Neruda (FSG, 2013)van der Kolk, Bessel, The Body Keeps the Score; Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Viking, 2014) The Tubman Chaplain Network (TCN) is a network dedicated to matching qualified women chaplains with current and veteran servicewomen in need of spiritual counseling for moral injuries suffered during their military service. To learn more about the network and how to apply, go to: https://chaplainconsultants.com/tubman-chaplain-network/. Use the passcode: 34663965. Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=FURKS5NYJVH9L)

Jessica Greenbaum got in touch with us because decades after becoming an established poet and a teacher of poetry with three books and national recognition, she decided art can’t do everything and went back to school to become a social worker. Melding the fields of poetry and social work, she runs workshops for communities who have experienced trauma and she wanted to offer one to people who have considered themselves to have sustained moral injury. She has run such workshops for 9/11 First Responders, under the auspices of NYU Langone’s Medical Center; for people who have left Jewish Ultra-Orthodoxy, under the auspices of a service organization for that community called Footsteps, and for adult survivors of childhood brain tumors, under the auspices of the Child Brain Tumor Foundation. Inside academia she has taught at Barnard College and Vassar, and she also designs classes around Jewish text for two New York synagogues. She’s here to answer the question of why poetry people who feel they have sustained moral injury and how does it work?  Resources: website: <a href="https://poemsincommunity.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://poemsincommunity.org/</a> bibliography Burack-Weiss, Lawrence &amp; Mijangos, editors, Narrative in Social Work Practice; the Power and Possibility of Story (Columbia University Press, 2017)Coleman, Elizabeth J, editor, Here: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon, 2019)Collins, Billy, editor, Poetry 180; A Turning Back to Poetry (Random House, 2003)Dungy, Camille T, editor, Black Nature; Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (U. Georgia Press, 2009)Herman, Judith, Trauma and Recovery (Basic, 1997)Hirsch, Edward, A Poet’s Glossary (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014)Levine, Peter, Waking the Tiger; Healing Trauma (North Atlantic, 1997)Press, Eyal, Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America (FSG, 2021)Stavans, Ilan, editor, All the Odes by Pablo Neruda (FSG, 2013)van der Kolk, Bessel, The Body Keeps the Score; Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Viking, 2014) The Tubman Chaplain Network (TCN) is a network dedicated to matching qualified women chaplains with current and veteran servicewomen in need of spiritual counseling for moral injuries suffered during their military service. To learn more about the network and how to apply, go to: <a href="https://chaplainconsultants.com/tubman-chaplain-network/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://chaplainconsultants.com/tubman-chaplain-network/</a>. Use the passcode: 34663965. <a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=FURKS5NYJVH9L" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a> (<a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=FURKS5NYJVH9L" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=FURKS5NYJVH9L</a>)

Part 1: Let's Talk Jessica Greenbaum

Award-winning poet Jessica Greenbaum talks about the role of havdalah and poetry as we prepare to atone for our sins this season. She asked, “How do we use both to move from the self we have been to the one we are trying to near?” S'lichot Lecture from September 21, 2019.

Award-winning poet Jessica Greenbaum talks about the role of havdalah and poetry as we prepare to atone for our sins this season. She asked, “How do we use both to move from the self we have been to the one we are trying to near?” S'lichot Lecture from September 21, 2019.

S'lichot Lecture with Jessica Greenbaum