Jewish Poetry Salon 

Featuring Donna Spruijt-Metz and Jenny Factor

in Marblehead

Join us on November 23, 2025, for an afternoon of Jewish poetry, now featuring Jenny Factor along with our originally scheduled reader, Donna Spruijt-Metz!

DATE & TIME: Sunday, November 23, 2025, 2 to 4 PM

ADDRESS: Please RSVP at this Google Form to receive the address: https://tinyurl.com/bostonyetzirah 

Boston Area Yetzirah Salons feature local Jewish poets who will read original work and participate in a Q&A at a private home. We welcome poetry lovers of all traditions. 

Jenny Factor’s first collection, Unraveling at the Name, was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Her new second collection, Want, the Lake (Red Hen Press, September 2024) centers philosophy, women’s stories, and how communities support one another through art and words. Jenny is Lecturer in Poetry at Caltech and a Brandeis University student of eighteenth-century women’s poetry circulation networks. She lives both in Marblehead, Massachusetts and Los Angeles, California.

Donna Spruijt-Metz’s second collection is To Phrase a Prayer for Peace (Wildhouse Publishing, 2025). Her debut poetry collection is General Release from the Beginning of the World (Free Verse Editions, 2023). Her chapbooks include Slippery Surfaces, And Haunt the World (with Flower Conroy), and Dear Ghost (winner, 2023 Harbor Review Editor’s prize). Her translation from the Dutch of Lucas Hirsch’s Wu Wei Eats an Egg (Ben Yehuda press) and her full-length collaboration with Flower Conroy, And Scuttle My Ballon (Picture Show Press) were both released in 2025. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets, Tahoma Literary Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She’s a MacDowell Fellow, emeritus psychology professor, rabbinical school drop-out, and former classical flutist. She gets restless.

This event is inspired by Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, the first national literary organization dedicated to fostering and supporting a community space for Jewish poets, nourishing writers and readers of Jewish poetry now and for generations to come.

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