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Rodger Kamenetz (born 1950) is an American poet and author best known for The Jew in the Lotus (1994), an account of the historic dialogue between rabbis and the XIV Dalai Lama. His poetry explores the Jewish experience and in recent years, dream consciousness.
I’m so honored you’ve dropped by. My continuing obsessions are dreams, poetry, and reimagining the sacred. I’m probably best known for The Jew in the Lotus, about a holy pilgrimage of rabbis to see the Dalai Lama in an historic dialogue between Jewish and Buddhist masters.
Born in Baltimore, Rodger Kamenetz earned degrees from Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, and Stanford University. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including The Missing Jew (Dryad, 1979), The Missing Jew: New and Selected (Time Being, 1992), The Lowercase Jew (Northwestern…
Rodger Kamenetz is an award-winning poet, author and teacher. Of his 13 books, his best known is The Jew in the Lotus, the story of rabbis making a holy pilgrimage through India to meet with the Dalai Lama.
“Rodger Kamenetz is on a spiritual pilgrimage that feels both urgent and timeless. After finding the “missing Jew” of his early poetry at the crossroads of Judaism and Tibetan Buddhism, Kamenetz is now taking on the mantle of the warrior.
Rodger Kamenetz is the author of six poetry collections, including To Die Next to You (Six Gallery Press, 2013) and The Lowercase Jew (Triquarterly, 2003), as well as the forthcoming collections Yonder (Diálogos, 2019) and Dream Logic (TO, 2020). He lives in New Orleans.
Rodger Kamenetz is a poet, author, professor emeritus of English and Religious Studies. He is best known for The Jew in the Lotus, an international best-seller now in its 40th printing.
