Charlotte A. Newberger Poetry Prize

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Lilith’s editors are delighted to announce that there are three winners of this year’s Poetry Prize. The judge for the 2013 contest was Alicia Ostriker, herself the author of 12 books of poetry. She selected entries by Karen Mandell, Julie Sugar and Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, and adds her own comments after each of the winning poems.

This prize at Lilith is named in honor of Charlotte Newberger’s longstanding support for the publication of poetry in Lilith. For more information, including guidelines for submission, please visit Lilith.org.

Charlotte A. Newberger Poetry Prize

The articles in this special section:

Rose Has a New Walker

by Karen Mandell

And These Are Different Days

by Julie Sugar

Away from Babi Yar

by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

Summer 2013

New models for how to manage the expectations (and expenses) confronting Jewish mothers in the “lean in” era. The kinesthetics of feminist prayer. And three new short stories: the haiku as revenge, an angel on the balcony, and how to hate your hair.

Not Your Zayde’s Shokl

by Stacey Zisook Robinson

Motherhood in the “Lean In” Era

by Gabrielle Birkner

Of an Honorable Antiquity

by Susan Schnur

Fall 2020

Did Alzheimers Turn My Husband into an Anti-Semite? • Parenting in the Pandemic • Objects and Their Hidden Lives • Forgiveness: When is it Possible?

Summer 2020

Informed predictions for the uncertain future • Farewell to shopping • Growing up Persian • Vivian Gornick & Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz revisited • 1930s feminist fiction — in Yiddish! • Unetaneh Tokef for Black Lives

Spring 2020

Hair and all its complications • Raising feminist boys today • Tipping, service work and our changing world • A hot new Yiddish star • Taking off my wedding ring

Winter 2019-2020

DNA secrets, hidden identities • Breast cancer and Jewish women • Tillie Olsen: feminist foremother • At her ritual haircut, she knew she was a girl • The first lady of lox