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Philip Terman’s books of poetry include The Whole Mishpocha: New and Selected Jewish Poems, 1998-2023, My Blossoming Everything (Saddle Road Press, 2024), Our Portion: New and Selected Poems (Autumn House, 2015), The Torah Garden (Autumn House, 2011) and Rabbis of the Air (Autumn House, 2007) and, as co-translator, Tango Beneatha Narrow Ceiling: The Selected poems of Riad Saleh Hussein (Bitter Oleander, 2021). His poems and essays have appeared in many journals and including Poetry Magazine, The Kenyon Review, Tikkun, The Georgia Review and Poetry International, and anthologies, including The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, 101 Poets for the Next Millennium, Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust, Joyful Noise: An Anthology of Spiritual Literature, Extraordinary Rendition: American Writers on Palestine. Retired from Clarion University, he served as co-director of the Chautauqua Writers Festival for 14 years. Currently, he directs The Bridge Literary Arts Center in Venango County, PA (https://www.bridgeliteraryartscenter.org/) and is co-curator of the Jewish Poetry Reading Series, sponsored by the Jewish Community Center of Buffalo. Recipient of the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience, Terman conducts poetry workshops and coaches writing hither and yon. He has collaborated with composers, visual artists, and he performs […]

Rab­bi Corinne Cop­nick has enjoyed an inno­v­a­tive pro­fes­sion­al life steeped in the arts: radio actress, art gallery own­er, award-win­ning writer, and moth­er of 4. An ordained rab­bi, at 79 she cruised the world as Guest Staff. Now 88, a for­mer rab­binic court Gov­er­nor, she still lec­tures, writes, and pod­casts on vital topics. Title: Mir­a­cles Are What You Make of Them Description: Mir­a­cles Are What You Make of Them is an oasis of hope in our chaot­ic world. An inspi­ra­tional take on con­tem­po­rary life intend­ed for every­one, this 2023 book describes the ​“Will to Con­tin­ue” and the ​“Will to Hope” as inter­twined — along with the impe­tus to act on them — at any age. In a time of increas­ing soci­etal and polit­i­cal pres­sures, ground­break­ing tech­no­log­i­cal advances, height­ened glob­al ten­sions, and a loom­ing cli­mate cri­sis, what val­ues sus­tain us? What gives our lives pur­pose? Who shares our mem­o­ries? How can we cre­ate our future? Writ­ten from the per­spec­tive of a vin­tage orig­i­nal (an elder, learned Jew­ish woman), Mir­a­cles Are What You Make of Them res­onates with Bib­li­cal and Tal­mu­dic insights high­light­ed by real-life sto­ries that reflect over­com­ing cir­cum­stances. The author’s deeply-felt words (and lyri­cal poems) become an eth­i­cal will for trans­for­ma­tive liv­ing. “…we are nev­er too old to teach younger gen­er­a­tions how to be hope­ful too.” CLICK HERE TO REGISTER