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,
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…
Poems
THE REUNION: A conversation upon which I wasn’t permitted to eavesdrop
A personae poem, in which Reuven inhabits the voice of another person, possibly an invented person.
Poems
Poem for the New Year
Reuven Goldfarb traveles throuth the cycles of and celebrations of the New year, believing that for everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under Heaven.
Audio
The News Anchor
Reuven Goldfard reads The News Anchor, a poem that was composed during a workshop led by Willa Hope Schneberg.
Audio
The Two Lemurs: Anthony and Dern
Reuven Goldfarb reads The Two Lemurs: Anthony and Dern that was inspired by a news story by Carolyn Jones in the San Francisco Chronicle, and was composed during a workshop led by Willa Hope Schneberg.
Poems
Time Capsule — 1957
Reuven Goldfarb shares insights, comparing life to the moon...He prays that just as I cannot touch the moon, so may our enemies be unable to touch us.