Poetry

Wait until life touches you, and the poems appear like bruises - opinion

A poem is a spontaneous burst of emotion; the words come unbidden, and break through all your controlled inhibitions.

 An illustrative image of poetry.
Late poet Amir Gilboa’s rich oeuvre is celebrated at the festival.

Metula's Israeli Poets’ Festival returns to Jerusalem with all disciplinary guns blazing

Typewriter.

Voices Israel anthology 2025: Celebrating English poetry shaped by war, love, and memory

Portrait of the Israeli Writer and poet Tsruya Lahav in Jerusalem. July 31, 2008.

Israeli lyricist Tzruya Lahav dies at 74 after cancer battle


Wedding invitation from 1955: A stroll through cherished memories - opinion

A simple wedding invitation from over 60 years ago provides memories of family and the moments that shaped a life.

The Writer's wedding invitation from 1955, to take place in Melbourne’s St. Kilda  Synagogue.

U2 releases EP featuring poem by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai

Israel Prize winner Yehuda Amichai, who died in 2000, is considered by many to have been the greatest modern Israeli poet.

Irish singer of U2 Bono poses during a photocall for the film "Bono: Stories of Surrender" at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 17, 2025.

Conservative British pro-Israel commentator Douglas Murray joins Yeshiva University

Murray, who is not Jewish, was appointed as the inaugural President’s Professor of Practice, a role the university billed as bringing “a leading public intellectual into the academic setting."

BRITISH AUTHOR and conservative political commentator Douglas Murray gestures as he speaks on stage during an evening against the rise of anti-semitism in Europe, at the Theatre Antoine, in Paris on June 3, 2024.

Writing for love’s sake: The poetic world of Gad Kaynar-Kissinger - interview

Gad Kaynar-Kissinger channels his childhood wounds, Jewish-German ancestry into poetry that provokes and reveals.

Kaynar-Kissinger and his fellow actor brother, Doron, (L) put on a Holocaust-related stage production in Germany.

Jilted lover releases erotic poetry allegedly written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denied having an affair with former New York Magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi.

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks with US Vice President JD Vance (not pictured) during the inaugural Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) summit in Washington, DC, US, November 12, 2025.

‘Poems as Invitations’: An exhibition on English poetry in Jerusalem

The show features 20 meticulously crafted artistic prints by the two contemporary visual artists, in response to poems by three English-language poets.

‘Poems as Invitations’ exhibition view.

Rhyme & reason: The annual Ushpizin Festival returns to Jerusalem

This year’s bash takes place, under the continued aegis of Confederation House and its long-serving head Effie Benaya, on October 8-10.

Welcome poetry into your sukkah.

Jerusalem highlights: October 3-9

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 Ivory from Megiddo

Jerusalem highlights: August 29-September 4

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 The late Dennis Silk, who wrote "Poets Cornered" at The Jerusalem Post for many years.

An unflinching look at a nation in verse

The Metula Poetry Festival will be held in Jerusalem next week.

EHUD BANAI will reflect on his work ‘The Book of Green Onions.’