Tonight I just wanted to sleep alone each touch of skin and furtive blanket movement nails across the blackboard  of my sleep. Sometimes I p...

This is Madcap Review #10 , and herewith are two poems of mine that are published therein. Sweater Dog Brings Himself Joy The happiest...

I wrote this poem a while ago, but wasn't really sure what to do with it. One of those things that seemed too cheesy to non-religious pe...

This is a weird one. Sometimes I'll start thinking about Steven Mnuchin and get so mad. Other times he just seems like a paradigm of all...

Gotta tell you, most of my posts on Hevria don't get much mileage in terms of feedback -- that's mostly for Elad and his political ...

In 2002, I went on tour with this crazy Australian Jewish punk band called YIDcore . We played a Jewish punk-rock ball at Wesleyan, some New...

Listen to this right now. Download it if you know what's best for you, just so you can listen to it constantly and nonstop. These are mp...

Hey, I'm about to put together a little free spoken-word E.P. and I'm making a music video as part of it -- only, of course, without...

I have a new poem in the Oklahoma Review ! It's actually really nice. The whole thing is out now  on pdf , but in case you don't fe...

Aaaaaah. I hate the way I look on video. But I do rap, and that's something of a consolation, right? Yesterday the amazing Sawyer Nov...

Today is my grandmom's birthday. Here's a link to a poem I wrote about her . It's called Dizzy. I learned what Halloween as ...

It's almost Lag B'Omer, which is making me hella nostalgic for the Stern Grove Chabad party in Yoko a Go-Go . Well, part of it, anyw...

How are you feeling about the New Year? Excited? Trepidatious? Nervous? Whatever's going around in your head, you should get it out of ...

I decided to be Orthodox in the middle of college. I was on scholarship to a very big school, and I was feeling very small. One of my best f...

The slammin' Melissa Broder hosts the Polestar Poetry series, and she just tried something new*: picking an album (in this case Nirvana...

The awesome Jewish poetry magazine The Blue Jew Yorker has its new issue online today. It probably seems like I'm telling you to go rea...

For the month of Elul , I've been trying to get myself into shape. One of the things that Rebbe Nachman (and basically everyone else) su...

I was a judge for Ben Yehuda Press's Twitter Love Contest . The entries have now been announced , and I would be embarrassed to have bee...

The new site Punk Torah is live today! A few weeks ago, Patrick A -- the lead singer of the band Can Can -- started doing Punk Rock Parsha...

OK, as promised : This past Saturday night was the first Hasidic poetry slam in Crown Heights, at least in the estimations of everyone there...