I am happy to share that Seeing into the Life of Things has been awarded a 2026 Gold Medal from the Nautilus Book Awards in the category Religion/Spirituality of Western Thought. Link to online booksites that carry the book. bit.ly/SeeingMonkfish
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What is sacredness and how can I find more of it in my life? Rodger Kamenetz teaches us a spiritual practice that leads us toward a deeper experience of life. His latest book is Seeing into the Life of Things: Imagination and the Sacred Encounter. bit.ly/RKDreamJourn...
Starting Wednesday January 14 at 2pm ET I will offer a five-week program of imaginative spiritual practice based on my new book: Seeing into the Life of Things: Imagination and the Sacred Encounter. bit.ly/IJSCOURSERK
Seeing into the Life of Things: Imagination and the Sacred Encounter - Institute for Jewish Spirituality
January 14-February 11 | Led by Roger Kamenetz, embark on a journey that entwines our senses, dreams, and imagination, and discover for yourself what Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel called “radical amaze...
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The creative resource of memory and dreams On the Brevity blog an interview with Dinty Moore with some prompts and tips for nonfiction writers and poets. bit.ly/SITLOTBrevity
Seeing into the Life of Things: Memory as an Act of Imagination
“I write in the perfume of the dream.” In his latest book, Rodger Kamenetz blends dreamwork and poetic imagination to offer pathways toward a more meaningful life, while also exploring …
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Last week in NYC we had ourselves a book party for Seeing into the Life of Things. Thanks to Anya & Adam for hosting & for amazing guests including these folks. @AmichaiLauLavie @jaymichaelson @ShirLaLaKline @basyaschechter @gabymeyerh @anya1anya @MonkfishBookPub
Honored to have The Jew in the Lotus among the top 50 Jewish books of the past 50 years along with Alicia Ostriker, Cynthia Ozick and uh Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. bit.ly/JITL50Moment
50 Books in 50 Years
To construct a list of books that made a difference in American Jewish life between 1975 and 2025 is to be reminded that however deeply you ponder what to include, the exercise’s main value is as a co...
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A book talk with IJS’s Rabbi Josh Feigelson bit.ly/IJSBOOKTALKR...
IJS Book Talk with Rodger Kamenetz
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I talk about the soulful imagination on Phil Goldberg’s pod Spirit Matters. And we laugh a lot. bit.ly/SpiritMatter...
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I’ll give a zoom talk for OCCSP Tuesday November 11, 2025 10-11 AM PT 12-1PM CT 1-2 PM ET 20-21 IT Here’s the link to REGISTER: (you don’t need to hit it, just gently touch it) bit.ly/SeeingOCCSP
Seeing into the Life of Things: Imagination and the Sacred Encounter (Rodger Kamenetz)
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Grateful to Susan Larson and her Reading Life for this sweet conversation about my new book Seeing Into the Life of Things #Monkfish #Wordsworth #poetry #nature #NewOrleans bit.ly/SeeingReadin...
The Reading Life: Rodger Kamenetz
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The JBI (former Jewish Braille Institute) has sponsored audio recordings of two Jewish Poetry Project titles: Rodger Kamenetz's THE MISSING JEW and Maya Bernstein's NO PLACE WITHOUT YOU. 1/5
Raul Hilberg’s 3 phases of The Destruction of European Jews: Identification. Expulsion. Annihilation No one should doubt the dangerous dehumanization explicit in Trump’s remarks about expelling Palestinians. Hamas is a genocidal organization by charter. The answer can never be to be like them.
Leopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry; this occurs repeatedly, again and again: finally it can be reckoned upon beforehand and becomes part of the ceremony. --Franz Kafka, 1919 h/t Bernard Friedman
I feel honored to keynoting this interfaith conference at Elon University. www.elon.edu/u/news/2025/...
Renowned author and poet Rodger Kamenetz announced as keynote speaker for the Ripple Conference
The Ripple Conference theme, the Art of Interfaith, will offer participants a unique opportunity to delve into the intersections of interfaith and the arts
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I’ve got friends who’ve gotten their knees replaced, their hips replaced. When you dream, you get your brain replaced. It’s like having a whole new mind every night.
Junior and Senior ibis. Senior snagged a slice of bread. City Park, New Orleans.
The compound eyes of this dragonfly—the grey goggles on the left -have 30000 lenses. Eastern pondhawk
Poetry is the reality on which science is based. -William Carlos Williams
Nice coverage of Yetzirah’s inaugural Jewish poetry conference. https://forward.com/culture/556520/yetzirah-jewish-poetry-conference-poets-asheville-north-carolina-kaminsky-osherow/
Something wonderful is happening in the world of Jewish poetry
At the Yetzirah Poetry Conference in Asheville, North Carolina, some Jewish poets feel they've finally found their very own shul.
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