The Scarred Issue
January 2025, Issue No. 1
Explore resilience, memory, and renewal in our debut issue.
POEMS
Geula Geurts
Eve Grubin
Jane Medved
Jane Schapiro
Maxim D. Shrayer
Alden Solovy
ESSAYS
Ronit Eitan
Daniel Feldman
Howard Gordon
William Kolbrener
Jonathan Papernick
Merav Roth
Jael de Jong Weissman
ART
Noa Arad Yairi
Caron Greenblatt
Batnadiv HaKarmi
Jacqueline Nicholls
Daniella Meller
Nuc Puras
Moshe Zaidler
PHOTOGRAPHY
Daniel Feldman
William Kolbrener
Irit Lahav
Yaakov Mascetti
Eric J. Parker
Shira Tamir
Featured Series
Scarred
Through poetry, prose, and the visual arts, let your scars – whether seen or unseen, recognized or repressed, burning or lingering in denial, deep or just a scratch – find expression and healing.
Write, Communicate, Share!
Community of the Scarred
Steps to Follow in the Event of an Emergency
By Jane Medved – When the wind sounds like a siren, find a stairwell Within a city, in the event,...
Read MoreJerusalem Caesarean
By Geula Geurts – for Rachel Goldberg-Polin: In this city there are women who’ve had their bellies split open seven...
Read MoreLemon Harvest in War
By Alden Solovy – Thin trails of blood Crisscross my arms. Lemon trees have thorns, But I do not wear...
Read MorePilgrimage
By Maxim D. Shrayer – Old virile German men and women come to the Holy Land in early November, warm...
Read MoreHow Mom’s Murder Ended the World That Had Been
By Miodrag Kojadinović – It is my fault. I should have found more time to care for my mother the...
Read MoreOctober Words
By Eve Grubin – I try to speak slant or bright. My words meet triangles of fire, thrown. Meanings I...
Read MoreBad Timing for a Prophet
By David Allard – For seven years, he sat, squinting, by the whispering waves of the sea-lagoon, fingers playing with...
Read MoreWhen the Dust Has Settled
By Inbal Singer – When the dust has settled The crackly graininess in our eyes Mixed with tears a kind...
Read MoreJust in Case
By Jane Schapiro – Even my father, the optimist, harbored a just-in-case. He never let on, but after his death...
Read MoreWords Are All That I Have: A Found Poem
By Erika Dreifus – Words are not enough, not even words like terrible horrific devastating killing suffering tragedy trauma hell....
Read MoreWhen You Look at Me
By Tom Levy – When you look at me, You don’t know me. I survived school yard bullying. I was...
Read Moreהעגלה הריקה
By Dr Yaakov Mascetti – בצומת אחת בירושלים, עם עגלה ריקה, יושבת אישה מבוגרת משוחחת עם תמונה. ״אין מה לעשות...
Read MoreOur Voices
Hear the ‘scarred’ voices behind the poems – reminding us that art connects and inspires.
Scarred - Images
Art gives voice to scars—visible and invisible. Explore the visual language of scars through a curated collection of art and photography.
Professor Merav Roth –
‘Guidelines for Trauma’ – October 8, 2023
from our upcoming issue, BALAGAN
I hold onto radical goodness.
In the face of radical doubt,
I hold onto radical faith.
In the face of radical despair,
I hold onto radical hope.
In the face of radical hatred,
I hold onto radical love.
And then, they hold onto me.
Our Contributors
William Kolbrener
Ronit Eitan
Batnadiv HaKarmi
Shira Tamir
Caron Greenblatt
Merav Roth
Jael de Jong Weissman
