Enid Dame

Enid Dame (born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania - died December 25, 2003) was an American poet, fiction writer, teacher, editor, and publisher. [ [http://english.rutgers.edu/alumni/newsletter/spring_summer_05/eniddamepoetry.html Friends of Rutgers - A Newsletter for Alumni and Friends of the Department of English ] ] [ [http://www.magickalmind.com/poetryeniddame.htm Enid Jacobs Dame: Selected poems and Biographical introduction ] ] [ [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/bridges_a_jewish_feminists_journal/v012/12.1dame01.html Project MUSE ] ] For many years, she and her husband, poet Donald Lev, lived in Brooklyn and in High Falls, New York, where they edited and published the literary tabloid "Home Planet News". She was on the faculty of the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University in New Brunswick, where she served as Associate Director of the Writing Program.

Dame's poems explored themes of urban life, Jewish history and identity, and political activism. She examined contemporary women's lives in persona poems that take on the voice of Eve, Lilith, or other woman from Jewish tradition. These poems often locate a kernel of feminist rebellion in familiar Biblical stories.

Her works

*"On the Road to Damascus, Maryland"
*"Lilith" [ [http://www.echonyc.com/~poets/dame.html Enid Dame ] ]
*"Lilith's New Career"
*"Lilith and Her Demons"
*"Dream Wedding"
*"Anything You Don't See"

References

External links

* [http://english.rutgers.edu/alumni/newsletter/spring_summer_05/eniddamepoetry.html Honoring Enid Dame at Rutgers]

* [http://users.tellurian.com/wisewomensweb/dame.html In Memorial to Enid Dame]

* [http://www.mjz1569.com/NYC/open-mic/CafeWeb.html Poets Enid Dame and Donald Lev]

* [http://www.echonyc.com/~poets/dame.html Enid Dame Poems]