Poems
Who’s Going to Play Me in the Movies?
Reuven Goldfarbs poem that won Honorable Mention from the judges of the 2020 Reuben Rose Poetry Competition, sponsored by Voices Israel,
About Reuven
Reflections on my life’s work at the three-quarter century mark
I see myself primarily as a poet, but I also write short stories, memoir pieces, essays, and Torah commentaries. Occasionally, some of these writings will get published, but if I were comparing my success rate Read more…
Eulogies
FOR ZEV DAVIS
“The death of the poet was kept from his poems.” — W. H. Auden The pen has dropped, the papers unrolled, his formal cadences splintered and old. Unpolished stanzas, inexact rhyme, jagged metrics Read more…
Poems
RESPONSIBLE ADULT
Everybody’s looking for that Responsible Adult; and when that Responsible Adult walks into the room, everyone will know it — even the nervous dogs that shy when you make a move. They slink, so Read more…
Poems
THE SCHOOL BELL SOUNDS
The school bell’s rapid clanging sends shivers through my thighs and tingles through my testicles. The smell of the chalkboard fills my nostrils, like the white dust flying free of the gray felt erasers I Read more…
Audio
What Do We Know?
Reuven Goldfarb, co-editor, reads excerpts from "What Do We Know? The Carlebach Anthology" for the Aquarian Minyan Author Night.
Essays
History & Baseball Intermingle
Reuven Goldfarb integrates the legacies of Robert F. Kennedy and Don Drysdale.
Essays
How Did The Aquarian Minyan Get our First Torah?
Reuven Goldfarb shares his recollections how the Acquarian minyan received it's first sefer Torah.