Location
Date & Time
5:00pm EST - 5:30pm EST
About This Event
Celebrating National Poetry Month with the Charter for Compassion
Seeking Peace Through Poetry with Hila RatzabiSunday, April 5, 2026
2:00–2:30 pm PDT / 3:00–3:30 pm MDT / 4:00–4:30 pm CDT / 5:00–5:30 pm EDT /
10:00–10:30 pm BST / 11:00–11:30 pm CEST / (Monday, April 6) 5:00–5:30 am AWST / 7:00–7:30 am AEST
Hila Ratzabi will share poems of witness, lament, and protest in response to the devastation in Israel and Palestine. Together we will hold space to grieve the losses of this most recent war and imagine a different way forward. Ratzabi will also share a bit about her journey as an Israeli-American peace activist volunteering with Friends of Standing Together, a movement of Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel working toward equality, justice, and peace for all on the land. All are welcome.
Hila Ratzabi was born in Rehovot, Israel, and raised in Queens, New York. She is the author of the poetry collection There Are Still Woods (June Road Press, 2022), which won a gold Nautilus Book Award and was a finalist for a National Indie Excellence Award. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Adroit Journal, and other journals, and in The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry and Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and lives outside Chicago.
About This Event
Celebrating National Poetry Month with the Charter for Compassion
Seeking Peace Through Poetry with Hila RatzabiSunday, April 5, 2026
2:00–2:30 pm PDT / 3:00–3:30 pm MDT / 4:00–4:30 pm CDT / 5:00–5:30 pm EDT /
10:00–10:30 pm BST / 11:00–11:30 pm CEST / (Monday, April 6) 5:00–5:30 am AWST / 7:00–7:30 am AEST
Hila Ratzabi will share poems of witness, lament, and protest in response to the devastation in Israel and Palestine. Together we will hold space to grieve the losses of this most recent war and imagine a different way forward. Ratzabi will also share a bit about her journey as an Israeli-American peace activist volunteering with Friends of Standing Together, a movement of Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel working toward equality, justice, and peace for all on the land. All are welcome.
Hila Ratzabi was born in Rehovot, Israel, and raised in Queens, New York. She is the author of the poetry collection There Are Still Woods (June Road Press, 2022), which won a gold Nautilus Book Award and was a finalist for a National Indie Excellence Award. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Adroit Journal, and other journals, and in The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry and Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and lives outside Chicago.
Location
Date & Time
5:00pm EST - 5:30pm EST