Hasidim Poems - Poems about Hasidim

...From marble and granite to steel and glass, we were discussing Rhina Espaillat’s On the Avenue in class, was it 1950s or 1980s NYC and were the fifties the city’s halcyon days or is it now, the 20......Read the rest...

...Walking through the old city One feels the power of this metropolis The narrow streets are filled with youngsters running by Aggressive merchants ply their wares And as we ......Read the rest...

...TV on - outside cars rushing by quckly on the FDR drive Another evening on the Lower East Side The place radiates nostalgia My grandparents now in eternity came here for a better life I see t......Read the rest...

...Hasidim, Chinese, Spanish Many residents of the area fall into these categories The streets are alive with memories of pushcarts, peddlers, politics The people of the Lower East Side today......Read the rest...