A Speaker is a Wilderness: Poetry Book Release Party
Schedule
Wed Jun 26 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Afikomen Judaica | Berkeley, CA
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About this Event
Join us at Afikomen Judaica for an evening of poetry and celebration. Meet the author, Anna Goodman Herrick, and hear readings from her latest work.
This book of poetry addresses the interconnection of individual, communal, and global healing, towards collective liberation. In Hebrew, the words for wilderness, speaker, and speaks are spelled the same and share the same root letters. Anna Goodman Herrick's title, from a poem in the collection, references the Torah's BaMidbar (in the wilderness or desert) and her ancestor's ritual practice of elevating etymology, roots, and folk word associations as spiritual meditation.
Anna Goodman Herrick weaves Jewish sacred texts, mysticism, human rights, and a modern voice of radical love, taking readers on a path of healing from brokenness to wholeness.
The author returns to her roots and original wholeness through reconnecting language: "Wilderness speaks / A speaker is a wilderness." Goodman Herrick survived sexual assault in her teens by a classmate, and left home at 14. The grandchild of an Auschwitz survivor, she's been a New York City club kid, MTV writer-producer, a peacemaker around the world, nun at a Vedanta convent, and student of Chassidic rabbis. This expansiveness lives in her poems. The book invites readers to reconsider prayer and blessing as an ongoing, fluid, language, holding space for the reverent and irreverent as prophetic.
Books will be available at the event for purchase and signing.
Wednesday June 26, 2024
7:00pm Doors Open & Live Music. Please arrive early, space is limited.
7:30pm - 9:00pm Main Event
Book signing and light reception to follow.
About the Author
Anna Goodman Herrick works at the intersection of spirituality, sacred words, and human rights. She is a writer, poet, filmmaker, and interdisciplinary artist. Anna has performed her poetry across the U.S., including at the Emily Dickinson Museum's Phosphorescence Poetry Reading Series, presenting "contemporary creativity that echoes Dickinson's own revolutionary poetic voice." She has performed at the El Paso border for Artist Uprising with V (formerly Eve Ensler), Bloomsday on Broadway and Radio Bloomsday, and at the Theopoetics Conference. She has created work for Sony, ABC Family, Oprah Winfrey Network, and MTV and shared her work at the Library of Congress, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and in film, stage, museums and galleries nationwide. For more information visit: annagoodmanherrick.com • Instagram @annagoodmanherrick.
Reviews
"Anna Goodman Herrick is a rising star, a poet, and a bard well beyond her years in wisdom and vision. Her book A Speaker Is a Wilderness brings tears of recognition and awe to my eyes every time I open it." -Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone, author of
This in-person event promises to be a night of inspiration and community. Don't miss out on this special opportunity to connect with fellow poetry lovers. See you there!
Where is it happening?
Afikomen Judaica, 3042 Claremont Avenue, Berkeley, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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