Linda Stern Zisquit

;

Linda Stern Zisquit has published six collections of poetry and several volumes of translations from Hebrew poetry, including Wild Light: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach, for which she received an NEA Translation Award and was shortlisted for the PEN Translation Award. For many years she was poetry coordinator for the Shaindy Rudoff Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University.

  • A close-up photograph of tree flowers

    Three Poems from Israel

    By Susan Afterman
    March 2024
    Susan Afterman
    Photo by Tim Mossholder / Unsplash.com[A person should fold up his world] A person should fold up his world put his head between his legs and so observe his existence say things of worth things that f…
  • A photograph of a loom

    Four Poems from Israel

    By Avigail Antman
    January 2024
    Avigail Antman
    And the Earth Opened Its Mouth At the end of June my earth trembles also at the end of August, and also after Sukkot, and also before Passover and afterward. Every movement of the dials on the face of…
  • Salmon colored cloth on a clothesline

    Three Poems

    By Diti Ronen
    November 2016
    Diti Ronen
    Photo by Kai C. Schwarzer/Flickr On recent nights   בַּלֵּילוֹת הָאַחֲרוֹנִיםאֲנִי מְחַפֶּשֶׂת אֶת הַבַּיִת שֶׁלִּינָעָה אַחֲרָיו בִּשְׁבִילֵי הַיְקוּםאַרְבָּעִים שְׁנוֹת מִדְבָּרמְגַשֶּׁשֶׁת בְּיָד…