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 41: Danez Smith
Episode 40: Kaveh Akbar
Episode 39: Erika L. Sánchez
Episode 38: Sharon Olds
Episode 37: Sheila Heti and Sarah Manguso
Episode 36: Dialogue Arts Project
Episode 35: Aracelis Girmay
Episode 34: Dr. Joshua Bennett
Episode 33: Sabrina Orah Mark
Episode 32: Laynie Browne
Episode 31: Carmen Giménez Smith
Episode 30: Sarah Vap
Episode 29: Molly Peacock
Episode 28: Poems for Mother's Day
Episode 27: Rita Dove
Episode 26: Alice Notley
Episode 25: Ross Gay
Episode 24: Julie Carr
Episode 23: Morgan Parker
Episode 22: Undocupoets 2 — Javier Zamora, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, and Janine Joseph
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