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Written in the wake of the sudden disappearance of her nephew, Jane Medved's award-winning
Wayfarers tells of the struggle to process loss without any physical anchor. Threaded through these poems are clues to navigating our time on earth, as left for us by the Jewish Sages: poems responding to midrash, " mishna," and daily prayers. Part memoir, part spiritual exploration, Wayfarers charts the path from pre-birth, to life in the physical universe, to the departure of the spirit from the body-- a path all human beings traverse.
About the author
Jane Medved is the author of Deep Calls to Deep (winner of the Many Voices Project, New Rivers Press) and the chapbook Olam, Shana, Nefesh (Finishing Line Press). Recent essays and poems have appeared or are upcoming in The Laurel Review, Mason Street, Ruminate, The North American Review, and The Normal School. Her awards include winner of the 2021 RHINO translation prize and the 2021 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize - Honorable Mention. She is the poetry editor of the Ilanot Review, and a visiting lecturer in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv.
