The Holy Folio
The Holy Folio is a supplement to Ayin’s second annual journal, which explored the transformative figure of the Holy Fool. A collection of works that engage with poetic leaps into the unknown, and experiment with the limits of storytelling and coherence, The Holy Folio is a meditation on foolishness itself as a fundamental state and practice of creativity. As Tom Haviv writes in his editor’s note: “May the holy foolishness of this folio be an invitation to you, dear reader—to create, against all odds, against hedging, and against reason—to create with wild hope, and to fail with relish; to let go of fairy tales, and to let more and more stories in—as radiant ephemera—always resisting final explanation—each story affixing itself—a star—to a wider and wider—albeit infinite—constellation.”
- The Holy Folio: Editor’s Note – Tom Haviv
- I Am Qohelet – Chaya Levy
- Fox Banquet: the path, memory, grasses – Qayyum Johnson
- Doikayt Dispatch – Julie Weitz
- Dybbuk, Goylem & Tzadik: Three Sonnets – Moriel Rothman-Zecher
- The Bubbel of Zitmah & the Mountain of Fire – Ariel Abrahams
- Excerpt from Notes Toward Nothing – Nat Sufrin
- Birth of a Rabbi – Aviva Bogart
- Genetext – Geneword
