Alicia Jo Rabins is a poet, composer, performer and Torah teacher. Her most recent book of poetry is Fruit Geode. Divinity School, her first book of poetry, was selected by C.D. Wright for the APR/Honickman First Book Prize in 2015; her poems and personal essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, Tablet, and American Poetry Review. An internationally touring violinist and singer, Rabins is the creator and performer of Girls in Trouble, a feminist indie-folk song cycle about women in Torah, and has toured Central America and Kuwait playing fiddle music as a cultural ambassador for the US State Department. Alicia lives in Portland, OR with her partner and two children. She loves plants, ancient texts, and coffee. Visit her online at aliciajo.com.
Upcoming Events
November 2018
Pop-up: Alicia Jo Rabins
Alicia Jo Rabins pops-up with her poetry collection, Fruit Geode. Rabins is paired with Celebration After the Fact by Judy Cooke; found in the Northwest Art on the 4th floor of the Portland Art Museum. Please reference the Portland Art Museum Map…
Find out more »In Conversation: Pregnancy and Motherhood
A look at the profound personal transformation and at the cultural conception of pregnancy and motherhood, with Angela Garbes, author of the nonfiction book Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy, and Alicia Jo…
Find out more »Self Portrait: Poetry of the Body
Intimate yet forceful, these three collections grapple with what it is to be in this world in a human body, specifically in a woman’s body—as the body ages, gives birth, changes. National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award…
Find out more »Upcoming Events
Reading and conversation with Anastacia-Reneé and Ashley Toliver
October 19, 2018
Join us for a reading and conversation with Ashley Toliver and Anastacia-Reneé…
Stranger in the Pen
October 25, 2018
panel discussion featuring Mohamed Asem, Dana Ghazi, Ramzy Farouki, and Dr. Priya…
Lit Crawl® Portland, 2018
November 9, 2018
Join us for the official kick-off party for the Portland Book Festival,…
2018 Portland Book Festival presented by Bank of America
November 10, 2018
Join Literary Arts for the annual Portland Book Festival (formerly Wordstock), presented…
The Moth Mainstage in Portland
December 10, 2018
The Moth returns to Portland on Monday, December 10. This extraordinary performance…
Everybody Reads 2019: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
March 14, 2019
In partnership with the Multnomah County Library and The Library Foundation, Literary…