Sometimes, a poem or piece of prose lends itself to the lyrical nature of music. Please enjoy listening to Alicia Vandevorst’s “Jerusalem Now” on Soundcloud.–Ed. In May of 2018, the US decided to move its embassy to Jerusalem. This symbolic move heightened for me the ongoing rivalry over that ground and what it represents. That […]
Alicia Vandevorst
Alicia Vandevorst has written poetry for over twenty years and studied with Patricia Donegan, Maxine Kumin, Barbara Jordan, and Arthur Sze. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Journal (Number 10) and Canary, A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis. Other large projects have been a poem for four voices performed in 1994, a libretto, and a set of poems to accompany the cloud photographs of Daniel Crozet, and a play partly in verse, titled Psyche, that combines theater, meditation and mask-work.