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SUMMARY:Author Talk: *My Sister and I* by Rabbi Katy Allen
DESCRIPTION:Join JCAN co-founder Rabbi Katy Allen to celebrate the publication of her first poetry chapbook\, My Sister and I from Bottlecap Press. She will be joined by ecopoet and scholar Sharon Roseman for a conversation about her writing process and ecopoetry in general and will read several poems\, some from her chapbook and some published elsewhere. There will also be time for questions and discussion.\n\n\n\n\nMy Sister and I celebrates the complexity of our human relationships with the world outside our doors. Allen invites the reader to join her on a journey of exploration of our interconnectedness\, beginning with the mystery and wonder around us\, capturing at times a specific moment of amazement and at times the overall splendor around us. \nLyrically and gently yet with brutal honesty\, Allen’s poems grapple with the pain of environmental degradation and anthropogenic climate change\, taking the reader from joy to tenderness to deep grief and despair. In the end\, the poet reminds us of the healing power of nature and the relationships we can continue to build with the world’s nonhuman inhabitants\, ultimately reflecting on the unity and mystery of all. Allen has lived close to and deeply loved the natural world all her life\, and her heart-felt sense of connection shines through in her poetry. \n \nKaty Z. Allen (she/her) began her career as a high school science teacher and worked in educational publishing before becoming a rabbi. She served as a healthcare chaplain\, and\, taking on the role of eco-chaplain\, started an outdoor Jewish congregation\, led interfaith outdoor experiences\, and co-founded a Jewish climate organization. She has been writing in one context or another since the age of eight. Now retired and having added poet to her list of titles\, her poetry has appeared in print and online in numerous journals\, including Amethyst Review\, The Bluebird Word\, Cosmic Daffodil\, The Soliloquest Magazine and Art on the Trails: Number 9. She has two micro-chapbooks from Origami Poems Project and was awarded Honorable Mention in The Prose Poem’s 2025 Prose Poetry Competition. Her poetic book on the journey through trauma to healing\, A Tree of Life: A Story in Word\, Image\, and Text\, which includes stunning black-and-white photographs by her mother\, Mary North Allen\, was published by Strong Voices Publishing. Her work can be found at www.katyzallen.com. \n \nSharon Roseman is a multi-genre author and professor of Anthropology at Memorial University (Canada). She is dedicated to the role of creativity and research in the urgent work of repair. Her poetry and fiction appear in Jewish Fiction\, Poetica Magazine\, SurVision Magazine\, The Ekphrastic Review\, and elsewhere. These include works of ecopoetry\, as with a recent poem published in Gashmius. Her ethnographic research in Spain and Canada has focused on food security and mobility justice\, among other topics. She wrote the book O Santiaguiño de Carreira and has edited nine additional books and journal issues. She is a member of Transport Action Atlantic and her current research deals with sustainable ferry transit in Newfoundland. In a recently-completed project on precarious pedestrianism\, she and Elizabeth Yeoman employed film Honk If You Want Me Off the Road alongside an academic publication “Enunciating Outrage: Sidewalk Mobility Injustice and Activism” in the journal Mobilities (2024). \n\nMy Sister and I can be purchased at Bottlecap Press.
URL:https://jewishclimate.org/event/author-talk-my-sister-and-i-by-rabbi-katy-allen/
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SUMMARY:Two Eco-Poets: A Conversation About Climate
DESCRIPTION:Join poets Andy Oram and Deborah Leipzeiger for an evening of Jewish eco-poetry and discussion. Andy and Deborah will read from their works\, followed by time for discussion and reflection\, as well as your own written responses. The evening will be facilitated by Rabbi Katy Allen. \n \nDeborah Leipziger is an author\, poet\, and advisor on sustainability. Born in Brazil\, Ms. Leipziger is the author of several books on sustainability and human rights. Her collection of ecopoems\, Tell Me\, was published in 2026 by Lily Poetry Review Books. Her work appears in numerous anthologies\, including The Nature of our Times and Tree Lines: 21st Century American Poems. Her poems have been published in ten countries in such magazines as Revista Cardenal\, Inkwell\, The Bombay Literary Magazine\, and Salamander. She is currently working on a Lexicon of Change\, which shares the vocabulary we need for social and environmental transformation. \nDeborah was a 2023-2024 Creative Community Fellow\, selected by JArts\, a Poet-in-Residence at the Vilna Shul\, a cultural center in Boston and a Writer in Residence at Northeastern University. She is a recipient of grants from the Brookline Arts Commission and a JOTA Fellowship from Brandeis University. \n \nAndy Oram is a writer and editor in the computer field. Andy also writes often on health IT\, on policy issues related to the Internet\, and on trends affecting technical innovation and its effects on society. Print publications where his work has appeared include The Economist\, Communications of the ACM\, Copyright World\, the Journal of Information Technology & Politics\, Vanguardia Dossier\, and Internet Law and Business. He has lived in the Boston\, Massachusetts area for more than 30 years. He self-published a memoir\, “Backtraces: Three Decades of Computing\, Communities\, and Critiques” and his poems have appeared more than in 70 journals and anthologies.
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