Feb 26, 2018 By: yunews
Joy Ladin, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and director of The Beren Writing Center at , recently published her ninth book of poetry, The Future is Trying to Tell Us Something: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press). Her memoir, Through the Door of Life, was also recently selected by The Jewish Book Council for the National Jewish Book Club.
Ladin has also given several presentations around the United States: 鈥淪piritual Sisters: A Reading with Joy Ladin and Lesl茅a Newman,鈥 at Hadassah Brandeis Institute in Waltham, Massachusets; 鈥淭rans and Religious Identities,鈥 at the University of Connecticut, Stamford, Connecticut; 鈥淲hen I Grow Up, I Want to Be the Shekhinah鈥 at SHE: Third Biannual Embodied Judaism Symposium at the University of Colorado in Boulder; 鈥淎bsolute Queerness: Reading God in the Torah from a Trans Perspective,鈥 at the University of San Francisco, California; 鈥淢eet Me at the Corner of Trans and Jewish Identities,鈥 at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York; and 鈥淗ow Do I Know Who I Am?鈥 at the Jewish Federation of Durham-Chapel Hill in Durham, North Carolina.
