Limmud Toronto 2021

Poetry has always found creative inspiration in reworking and rebelling against its inheritance. With such rich literary materials in our tradition, Jewish poets in particular have a vast reservoir of ancestral texts, both secular and sacred, to explore and adapt. Three recent collections by Toronto-based poets Alisha Kaplan, Lisa Richter, and Adam Sol engage with texts from the Tanakh, the Siddur, and Yiddish literature to create books resonant for our own time. The poets will read short excerpts from their books and then speak about ways their works address, struggle with, and pay homage to the texts that came before.