“Deborah Leipziger’s latest book Tell Me forms a spiritually rich, ecologically attuned, and emotionally resonant collection rooted in themes of transformation, memory, and the sacred in everyday life. Whether drawing on paintings by women artists, religious rituals and recipes from the poet’s ancestors, or concerns about endangered species, each poem sings in a voice both tender and unflinching. Monarchs, hummingbirds, marzipan, and candied citron come to vivid visual life on the page, as do larger themes of migration, resilience, and transformation. Reading these poems reminds us of what it means to be aware of, vulnerable to, and transformed by the world around us. A real pleasure for both heart and mind.”
-Donna Baier Stein, Publisher of Tiferet Journal and author of The Silver Baron’s Wife
About Deborah Leipziger
Deborah Leipziger is an author, poet, and pioneer in the field of sustainability. Born in Brazil, Ms. Leipziger is the author of several ground-breaking books on sustainability and human rights. Her collection of poems, ‘Story & Bone’, was published in 2023 by Lily Poetry Review
Books. Her work appears in numerous anthologies, including ‘Tree Lines: 21st Century American Poems’ and ‘The Nature of Our Times’. Her poems have been published in ten countries in magazines such as Revista Cardenal, Inkwell, The Bombay Literary Magazine, and Salamander. She has had residencies at T S Eliot House and received grants from the
Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Brookline Commission for the Arts, Yetzirah, and the Jewish Arts Collaborative. A former Poet-in-Residence at the Vilna Shul, she is a Jews of the Americas Fellow at Brandeis University. Leipziger founded the Lexicon of Change which shares the vocabulary needed for social and ecological transformation.
Author photo by Shana Santow