Rachel Zucker speaks with poet, musician and Jewish educator Alicia Jo Rabins about her new book, Fruit Geode, and her lifelong passion for writing. In an episode rich with music, Alicia Jo describes falling in love with Jewish learning, being a classically-trained violinist, learning American fiddle music from a busker, playing in a klezmer punk band, recording three albums of Girls in Trouble songs (written in the voices of female biblical figures), her one-woman rock opera about Bernie Madoff and the collapse of the financial market, the inevitability of cycles, writing a spiritual memoir, the non-binary divine, the Jewish priestess movement, the importance of stopping writing, a hunger for integration, shame, performance, and so much more.
EXTRA RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 70Books by Alicia Jo RabinsFruit Geode (Augury Books, 2018)
Divinity School (American Poetry Review, 2015)
Other Projects by Alicia Jo RabinsGirls in Trouble
A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff (the album)
A Kaddish for Bernie Maddoff (the film)
Chavurta: A Drummer’s Bat Mitzvah
Other Books and Writers Mentioned in the EpisodeRilke’s Letters to a Young Poet
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield (Orion, 2003)
Claudia Rankine
Kenneth Koch
Ron Padgett
David Lehman
John Ashbery
Norman Fischer
C.D. Wright
Enheduanna
Other Relevant LinksAnnette Ezekiel Kogan and the band Golem
Pardes
Jerry Raik
Bronfman Fellowship
Rabbi Jill Hammer
LMCC
Bernie Madoff
Zak Margolis
Emotive Fruition
Mother Foucault's Bookshop
Episode 61: Rosa Alcalá (Translation Series, Ep. 1)
Episode 60: Robin Coste Lewis
Episode 59: Alison S. M. Kobayashi
Episode 58: Cate Marvin
Episode 57: Dorothea Lasky
Episode 56: Jennifer Kronovet
Episode 55: Anne Waldman
Episode 54: Gerald Stern
Episode 53: Tommy Pico
Episode 52: Richard Siken
Episode 51: TC Tolbert
Episode 50: Inside Commonplace
Episode 49: CAConrad
Episode 48: Poets at MacDowell: Destiny Birdsong, Juleen Johnson, Jenny George, Eloisa Amezcua, & Amanda Galvan Huynh
Episode 47: Erin Riley
Episode 46: Allison Parrish
Episode 45: Tyehimba Jess
Episode 44: Matthew Zapruder
Episode 43: Airea D. Matthews
Episode 42: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
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