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SUMMARY:Welcome Special Guest\, Jamie Wendt
DESCRIPTION:Join us this Shabbat for a special conversation and celebration
  of American Jewish poetry with poet\, Jamie Wendt.\nJoin Rabbi Michael Si
 egel and American Jewish Poet and AES member Jamie Wendt as they discuss a
 nd celebrate Jamie's new book\, Laughing in Yiddish\, at the end of Shabba
 t morning services in the Main Sanctuary.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJamie Wendt is the 
 author of the poetry collection Laughing in Yiddish (Broadstone Books\, 20
 25)\, which was a finalist for the 2022 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry and 
 a semifinalist for the 2023 Word Works Washington Prize\, 2022 Longleaf Pr
 ess Book Contest\, and the 2022 Brick Road Poetry Press Book Contest. Her 
 first book\, Fruit of the Earth (Main Street Rag\, 2018)\, won the 2019 Na
 tional Federation of Press Women Book Award in Poetry.\n\nHer poems and es
 says have been published and are forthcoming in various literary journals 
 and anthologies\, including Feminine Rising\, Atlanta Review\,Catamaran\, 
 Green Mountains Review\, Lilith\, Jet Fuel Review\, Flint Hills Review\, C
 onsequence Magazine\, the Forward\, Minyan Magazine\, and others. She cont
 ributes book reviews to the Jewish Book Council as well as other publicati
 ons\, including Literary Mama and Mom Egg Review. Wendt won third prize in
  the Reuben Rose Poetry Competition through Voices Israel and won second p
 rize for the 2024 Holloway Free Verse Award through the Illinois State Poe
 try Society. She was selected as an International Merit Award winner in th
 e Atlanta Review 2022 International Poetry Competition. She received a Pus
 hcart Prize Honorable Mention and was nominated for Best Spiritual Literat
 ure.\n\nWendt graduated from the University of Nebraska Omaha with an MFA 
 in Creative Writing\, and she received a Bachelor of Arts in English and a
  Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education from Drake University. She is 
 a middle school Humanities teacher and lives in Chicago with her husband a
 nd two kids.\n\nFollow her on Instagram: @jamiewendtpoet.
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