Eve Grubin is delighted to announce that her new book of poems, Boat of Letters (Four Way Books), is now available. If you live in the UK you can order Boat of Letters from various places but we recommend Blackwells. If you live in the US, order from your favorite bookshop.
To read Eve’s newsletter visit The Poetics of Reticence
All are welcome to register for the following online events and classes:
21 December: Jewish Poets Collective Reading hosted by Tree Smith Benedikt
24 December: Jewish Poetry Online Workshop for Hudson Valley Writers Center
January and February: Foundations of Poetry course for Maine Media
January and February: Modern Jewish Literature at the London School of Jewish Studies
15 February: Generative Poetry Workshop at Ritual Well
22 February: Writing Poems of Comfort and Affliction for Hudson Valley Writers Center
19 March: Orange Country Jewish Community Scholar Program: Poetry and Classic Jewish Texts
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Recent Events:
Sunday October 26th: London Book Launch at The Devereux
Sunday November 2nd: New York City Book Launch – Upper West Side reading with Baruch November, Joanna Fuhrman, and Victoria Redel.
Monday November 3rd: Reading and talk on the Art of Reticence at Vassar College
Friday November 7th: Eve spoke about Silences in Poetry for NAWE
Sunday October 19th: Magen Avot Book Club reading and talk
Thursday August 21st: Reading at the Hillsdale Library in Hillsdale, NY (with Charles Bernstein)
Tuesday August 26th: Reading in Bryant Park in New York City
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Eve is the author of three other collections of poems, Morning Prayer (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005); The House of Our First Loving, a pamphlet/chapbook, (Rack Press, 2016); and Grief Dialogue, a pamphlet/chapbook, (Rack Press, 2022)
Eve teaches several private online poetry classes. Email evegrubin@gmail.com for more information and to learn how to register or if you are interested in working one to one with her on your poems.
OTHER NEWS:
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Eve taught the online class: Grappling With Grief in Poems on Sunday 27th July 2025
- Eve participated, June 2025, in the wonderful Yetzirah Poetry Conference
- Eve introduced Ilya Kaminsky, Jacqueline Saphra, and Jessica Jacobs at Jewish Book Week in London in March 2025. Watch the reading here.
- Grappling with Trauma in Poetry course at Maine Media Academy (online)
- Writing What Can’t Be Said at The Poetry School (online)
- I am so pleased with the article in the Jewish Chronicle which discusses how I teach about grappling with trauma in poetry
- How to Grapple with Trauma in Poems at HVWC
- Poetry Inspired by Classic Jewish Texts at Yetzirah
- I taught an online session at Poets House: Writing Trauma in Poems: Sunday 15 September
- Eve taught an online course on the Poetry of Sharon Olds at the Poetry School in the Autumn 2024 (Wednesdays, October 30th and November 6th, 2.00-4.30 UK time / 9.00-11.30 EST time).
- Reading in Boston! Sunday August 11th at 5.00PM: Jewish Poetry Salon Coolidge Corner 50 Sewall Street Brookline, MA 02446 (in person and online)
- Find Eve’s poem ‘A Definition’ on Tablet published 12 April 2024 with a wonderful introduction by poet Jake Marmer.
- Eve taught a four-hour poetry class Writing What Can’t Be Said on zoom at the Hudson Valley Writers Centre on 30th June.
- Eve taught Writing Trauma in Poems at the Poetry School (zoom) in March ’24.
- Poetry Reading, Institute of Contemporary Arts, AHRC Event, 7.30 PM 14 September 2023
- Check out Mastering Academic Writing with Eve Grubin on the PhD Life Raft Podcast.
- Read Eve’s piece, ‘It’s What You Didn’t Say’ in Beyond Belief (August 2023).
- Eve teaches an online ongoing poetry workshop at The Poetry School.
- Eve gave a talk on ‘Decolonizing the Classroom’ at the ‘Decolonizing the Liberal Arts Curriculum Symposium’ at New York University in London (June 26-26, 2023).
- Eve’s poems ‘Child’ and ‘English Vernacular Minuscule’ can be found in the Spring 2023 issue of the Brixton Review of Books.
- Eve’s recent review of Yomi Sode’s Manorism can be found at the Writers Mosaic.
- Eve read her poems and spoke about her research in a talk entitled ‘The Poetics of Reticence: Responsibility for the Vulnerable Other’ at the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities Annual CAMC Conference: ‘Creative Climates’ at Coventry University (24 March 2023).
- Eve spoke on 18th May 2023 at Goodenough College in London about her research.
- Eve gave a poetry reading on February 9th 2023 at 7PM EST (12AM UK time!) at the JCC of Buffalo.
- Grief Dialogue was published by Rack Press in 2022, and is available for purchase. The launch event for the collection took place in October 2022 in the Music Room on Great Ormond Street in London.
- Eve was a featured poet on Yetzirah.
- Two new poems, ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ and ‘The Laws,’ were published in the American Poetry Review (September 2022).
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Eve won the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize 2021 judged by Dorianne Laux for her poem Snakes and Ladders. The ceremony took place on 8 April 2022. Here are Laux’s words on the poem: ‘I love the details in this poem, the slow, quiet way it moves through a day, a game, someone placing branches on an arch, someone reading. Lazy, though making preparations for an uncertain future, ‘the virus breathing’ over this small family that could be any family but is a specific family living their particular lives. All that surrounds them is both real and mythic, the smooth dice, the snake’s tongue, the box an ark. All of them in a covenant with one another, with the world. The family held, as we are, if we grasp and lift, in the seat of mercy.’
- Eve discussed her PhD research at Re-enchantment: Techne Student Congress on 11 Jan 2022.
- Eve’s selection of poems, Darling, I Used to Dance at These Parties, was long listed for the 2021 Ivan Juritz Prize. The following words are from Will Eaves’s commendation delivered at the prize-giving event on 23 June 2021: ‘Eve Grubin’s marvelously titled selection Darling, I Used to Dance at These Parties includes tender imagistic poems that owe an avowed debt to Emily Dickinson but which also, and more unusually, marry intimate observation with an interest in Jewish heritage and scriptural authority. Everything in these beautifully observed poems — walking in the park, cooking, eating, watching a man trying to make the bed — has a tender but exegetical quality. The most incidental domesticity is somehow connected to ancient law.’
- Eve has two poems in the November/December 2021 issue of the American Poetry Review.
- Eve’s poem ‘Revelation’ can be found in the winter 2021 issue of Paper Brigade: Jewish Book Council’s Literary Magazine.
- Eve’s poem ‘Longing’ appeared in SWWIM Every Day on April 29, 2021.
- Eve’s poem ‘Keep Not Knowing’ can be found in the Summer 2021 issue of the Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal.
- Eve’s poem ‘Allay’, which originally appeared in the American Poetry Review, was published again in the Spring 2021 issue of Lubavitch International.
- Eve’s work can be found in the January 2021 issue of The North Magazine.
And in 2020:
- Eve’s poems ‘Grief Dialogue’ and ‘American in England’ were published in the Autumn issue (2020) of Poetry Review.
- Eve gave a virtual poetry reading from London at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY on Monday evening, May 4th, 2020, where she read her original poem The Garden of Earthly Delights written specifically for a class devoted to the Bosch painting by the same name taught by Professor Marc Michael Epstein.
- Eve read Emily Dickinson’s poem “A soft Sea…” at the virtual annual Dickinson Poetry Walk at the Emily Dickinson Museum on May 15th, 2020.
- TECHNE produced Eve’s podcast on Emily Dickinson and the Poetics of Reticence. Listen here.
And…
- Eve read her poems and spoke about ‘Emily Dickinson and the Poetics of Reticence’ at Kingston University on 27 February 2018.
- PN Review editors commended Eve’s translation of the Yehuda Halevi poem ‘You Knew Who I Was’ for the Translation Prize, and it was published in the March-April 2018 issue.
- Poetry Reading and Panel on 9 November 2017 at TECHNE conference
- Eve’s essay on writing ‘slant’ (6 July 2017) in The Lehrhaus.
- Eve’s poem ‘Allay‘ appeared in The American Poetry Review.
- Two of her poems, ‘A Definition’ and ‘Unfinished’, were published in PN Review.
- ‘Mother and Child‘ appeared in Jewish Journal.
- Eve’s essay, ‘The Poetics of Sanity’, on Jane Cooper’s poetry was published in the The American Poetry Review.
- Poems have recently appeared in these anthologies, The Poets Quest for God: 21st Century Poems of Faith, Doubt, and Wonder (Eyewear Press, 2016), The World is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins (Liverpool University Press, 2016), A Book of Uncommon Prayer: An Anthology of Everyday Invocations (Outpost, 2015), and The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry (Bloomsbury, 2014).
- Eve is delighted to announce the publication of her pamphlet / chapbook: The House of Our First Loving (Rack Press, 2016). You can order The House of Our First Loving from the Rack Press website. Mark Doty’s words on The House of Our First Loving: `Let’s hold all of the truths in our arms at once,’ Eve Grubin writes in this marvelous, entirely fresh pamphlet of love poems, in which traditional Jewish sources become a means of naming what happens in the contradictory meshing and collision of the selves love is. ‘Unfinishing,’ she tells us, ‘creates a longing,’ and Grubin’s happy readers will leave these poems hungry for more of this unusual, distinctive sensibility at work.
From Alison Brackenbury’s review in PN Review:
I have to come to hope that a Rack Press pamphlet may be a tiny gift-box of unusually good poems. This proved true of Eve Grubin’s chapbook, The House of Our First Loving….Grubin expresses the mysterious reconciliations of marriage beautifully. She is at home with paradox, in the ‘ordered chaos’ of shared books. With the speed that is wit, she flings open the division between the sacred and the mundane….Her poems can sound like liturgical commands, authoritative, but never authoritarian…Grubin is confident enough to be ‘without certainty’. She often takes the risk of ending a poem with the abbreviations of common speech – ‘loving best what we can’t see’ – as ancient ritual anchors in the freshness of daily living. Her poems hold a deep and unusual charm….The House of Our First Loving left this reader longing for more light-filled, surprising work.
A review, ‘Unfinished-ness in Art, Judaism and the Poetry of Eve Grubin,’ appeared on Sarah Rindner’s blog, The Book of Books: Where Judaism and Literature Meet
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