S3E37 Jewish Artist Daniela Naomi Molnar Reads Her Own Work

We're starting something new here at the podcast. Periodically, we're going to Jewish invite artists to share their work directly with you. So today we bring you Daniela Naomi Molnar reading three of her poems. Daniela is an Art/Lab alum. I interviewed her for this podcast, so you might be familiar with her work. I interviewed her back in season number one and last season she and I hosted a conversation at Annie Bloom Books. You may also know Daniella from her published work. Daniella's debut book Chorus won the 2024 Oregon Book Award for poetry and her work Protocols: An Erasure, which is an extended erasure poem was published in 2025. That extended work is composed from the foundational antisemitic forgery Protocols of the Elders of Zion, along with prose meditations on the subject. It is a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. In addition, Daniella's work has been  published and shown widely in public and in private collections here and internationally as well. In this episode, Daniela reads three poems from her forthcoming Memory of a Larger Mind (Link is below): "The World is Full # 145," "Memory of a Larger Mind #2," and "Kaddish #3."  It will be published in October 2026 from Omnidawn. Thank you to Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry for allowing us to use the audio (here) and video (on our Youtube channel, @thegenesisjewishpodcast) from Daniela's appearance with them. Yetzirah's original video, which includes other artists as well, can be found here: https://vimeo.com/1140200036?fl=pl&fe=sh The Genesis: Conversations About Jewish Arts and Culture is conceived of and created by Rabbi Josh Rose, and is a program of Art/Lab: Jewish Arts and Culture. Theme music by Rabbi Josh Rose. Links Art/Lab: Innovating Jewish Arts and Culture: artlabpdx.org Daniela Naomi Molnar: danielamolnar.com Daniela's Memory of a Larger Mind: https://www.danielamolnar.com/memoryofalargermind Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry: yetzirahpoets.org