Ayin’s newest folio, Towards a Visionary Poetics: A Female Gaze, has been years in the making. Curated by the poet-scholars Yosefa Raz and Shoshana Olidort, this collection features literary work on the place(s) where women’s voices, poetics, and prophecy meet, shift the ground, and create something new. In her introduction, Olidort writes: “The poems and prose reflections assembled in this folio represent just a few slices in the vast range of contemporary perspectives on what it means to envisage, as people who are not cis male, a different kind of world than the patriarchal one we inherited. If prophecy is, at its core, about the power of language, these explorations imagine how we might wield language to do something other than what’s been done with it before: to reclaim the past, rather than try to predict the future; to seek transformation, not transcendence, in our material world.”
Undertorah takes readers on a journey through the root systems of the dreamworld. A practical and paradigm-shifting guidebook for individuals and communities, this text offers a transformative approach to contemporary dreamwork, grounded in embodied experience and ancestral wisdom, that connects us to spirit and inspires us to heal our world.
Ayin Press is an artist-run publishing platform, production studio, and research collective rooted in Jewish culture and emanating outward. We create and support work at the intersection of Political Imagination, Speculative Theology, and Radical Aesthetics.
From the Archive
Turkey Talk for Reb Nachman
You who heard angels singing in the grass, prayers in the daffodils,Do you hear, between the rusted hinges of closing ...
Notebook Poems
Anselm Berrigan’s most recent book of poems is Pregrets, published by Black Square Editions in 2021. He’s always pretty freaked ...
What the Beard Said (III)
is, just now, beyond me softly—as a kind of mercy?— here within the fat book’s saying that to ascend’s in ...
Dirty Laundry
Editor’s Intro Adi Liraz’s “Dirty Laundry” stitches together elements of Romaniote craft and textile traditions, Jewish ritual and poetry, family ...
God as Holy Fool: Embracing the Chaos of Creation
God is infinite and contains all possibilities. What we see of God in the world, and what we see of ...
Notes on Female Visionary Poetry: Trans Women Poets Writing Themselves into Existence
If you turn to page 515 of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, co-edited by Trace Peterson ...
Truth in Gay Clothes, or Gagarin’s Space Suit: Part I
A conversation between Jenny Romaine and Yevgeniy Fiks Editor’s Note In the winter of 2021, Ayin’s editorial team connected with ...
Outro
One of you taught me how to write a sonnet by walking across snowy city blocks. One of you danced ...
The Biblical Garden & Other Poems
The Biblical Garden Intention: to operate from love and boundaries And the infinite balance between them As we head into ...
Coda
Like all projects, this one was as much about process as anything else. With this in mind, we wanted to ...