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
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