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Thursday, October 08, 2020

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW

by Peggy Landsman


 

To be a Jew
has little to do
with you,
who you are,
what you believe in.
 
To be a Jew
has everything to do
with the world…
 
Is it big enough
for us
to live in?

 
Peggy Landsman is the author of a poetry chapbook, To-wit To-woo (Foothills Publishing). Her work has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including The Muse Strikes Back (Story Line Press), Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes (C&R Press), Nasty Women Poets (Lost Horse Press), Mezzo Cammin, The Ekphrastic Review, and a previous issue of The New Verse News. She lives in South Florida where she swims in the warm Atlantic Ocean every chance she gets.