Poetry

Faith

To climb each rung
of the intellect

and then surrender
like a librarian reaching for a book

on the highest shelf
then breathing in

the strange and foreign air
above the ladder.

Yehoshua November

Yehoshua November is the author of two poetry collections, God’s Optimism (a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry) and Two Worlds Exist (a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize). His work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, The Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review and on National Public Radio. November teaches writing at Rutgers University and Touro College.

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