About Rachel’s about:
Inspired by the fragmentation and dialogue inherent in Jewish texts, Rachel Edelman’s poems reach across time and space to ask, what does it mean to make a home?
Featured Poems
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"The Portrait"
WEST BRANCH
Published in the Slow Violence folio of West Branch, curated by Sarah Ghazal Ali
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"Dear Memphis" triptych
THE SEVENTH WAVE
Three poems from Dear Memphis, which were published in The Seventh Wave’s Rebellious Joy issue.
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"Return" and other poems
NARRATIVE MAGAZINE
A finalist for Narrative Magazine’s Thirteenth Annual Poetry Contest
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Christmas Eve
POETRY.ONL
“I ma’am my husband’s aunts / like I think I ought to, / like my mother taught me / not to do my own.”
Poetry publications
West Branch, “The Portrait,” in the Slow Violence folio, curated by Sarah Ghazal Ali
Narrative. Return and Other Poems. Spring 2022.
Muzzle Magazine. Dear Memphis. Winter 2021.
Great River Review. Nocturne (runner-up for the PINK Prize). November 2021.
Nimrod International Journal. No matter, my treads are lined with Kevlar (semifinalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize). Fall/Winter 2021.
Poetry Northwest. Swatch Test & Dungeness. Fall/Winter 2021.
The Seventh Wave. Three Poems: Dear Memphis. Issue 13: Rebellious Joy.
Wildness. Passage. Eco Folio, Spring 2020.
Mantis. Clearing Out & Stone Way North. Spring 2020.
Beloit Poetry Journal. Descent Fragments & To Belong Less to
the Aggressor (finalist for the Adrienne Rich Award, judged by Naomi Shihab Nye). Fall 2018.
Crab Orchard Review. Dungeness Spit. Winter 2018
About Place. The Boy on the Beach & Decomp. Fall 2017
Foundry. Stakeout Station. Fall 2017.
The Threepenny Review. Down This River. Spring 2017.
Passages North No. 28. Icarus, Again. 2017.
Southern Humanities Review. bespoke. Vol. 50 No. 3&4. 2017.
The Pinch. How Prayer Works. Fall 2016.
LOCKJAW. A LIMINARY ART. August 2016.
Poetry Northwest. Vision of Iapetus & Wandering Song. Summer/Fall 2016.
Prodigal Literary Journal. Water strider. Issue 2. April 2016.
Tinderbox Poetry Journal. Ice Age & Elegy for Sylvia H.'s Episodes. Issue 2.6. March 2016.
Fairy Tale Review. How Humans Use Dead Animals. Ochre Issue. March 2016.
Day One. For We Were Slaves. Issue 3.9. December 2015.
Painted Bride Quarterly. Memphis Blue. Issue 92. October 2015.
TYPO. Potential Energy. Issue 22. March 2015.
Colorado Independent. Birds of the Flood. July 2015.
Essay publications
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Interviews
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“Edelman speaks searingly of ‘what she knows of the South’ and its racial history, one in which she is uneasily embedded. Whether arriving out of personal, biblical, historical, or political stories of migration, Edelman’s poems are piercingly self-aware.”
— Shara McCallum, author of No Ruined Stone
