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Richard Chess, poetry editor, Zeek 

Richard Chess is the author of three books of poems, THIRD TEMPLE (2007), CHAIR IN THE DESERT (2000), and TEKIAH (1994), all published by The University of Tampa Press.  He directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.  He also directs UNCA's Center for Jewish Studies.

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A Poem by Robert Manaster

The Beginnings of Ritual   When God intrudes from within A story, as in the…

THREE POEMS

Atonement There is Betwixt Light and Darkness To be a we, we must include that…

TWO POEMS by CELIA DROPKIN

A Summer Sonata I bathed in fresh, clear waters, I saw my white feet through…

POEM: Secret Places of the Stairs

Telling secrets in the secret places of the stairs: Fingertips, like lighted candles, reaching out,…

TWO POEMS by ANNA MARGOLIN

(I DID NOT KNOW, MY LOVER) (IKH HOB NIT GEVUST, MAYN LIBER) I did not…

POEM: Prayers to John Grisham

                On this flight to Pittsburgh the man…

Poem: “Miriam and Her Brothers”

MIRIAM AND HER BROTHERS And the Lord said unto Moses: ‘If her father had but…

POEM: Isaiah Interviewed: An Excerpt

Isaiah Interviewed: An Excerpt Did I see the throne before the royal funeral or afterwards?…