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Somewhere Lilith's personality, image as along the line, I got the transgressor, life in exile and message that these are relationships with men, people like us, and that women and family. Created was a way I connected as Adam's equal, Lilith left to to the Bible." avoid being dominated by Dame, 55, began Adam, and her story is told in writing poems as a child writings called midrash — after hearing her parents imaginative interpretations or recite their favorites. She commentaries on Scripture. stopped in high school Dame, who contributed but began again with poetry and prose to the book the inspiration of the she helped edit, will read feminist movement. excerpts as well as other Enid Dame: 7 think the "I met with a works when she appears Sun- fascination of biblical women's group that day, NOV. 22, at the Birming- stories is immense. lasted four years," says ham Community House in a They're different from Dame, who already had "JFK Memorial Reading." ritual, and we learn a few poems published The event commemorates the about the world. Some- in magazines before 35th anniversary of the assas- where along the line, I joining that writing cir- sination of the president. got the message that cle. "We were all at the these are people like us, Also reading their own same level and not as and that was a way I poetry will be Jewish poets good as we could be. connected to the Bible." Lynne Meredith Cohn, "The My first Lilith poem Scene" editor for The Detroit was written in that workshop." Jewish News; Mark Phillips, businessman After publishing a book of poetry' and writer; and Dame's husband, Don- through a publishing co-op, she was able ald Lev, with whom she co-edits Home to complete others with grant money Planet News, a literary tabloid. from sources that have included the "I'll concentrate on poems with Jew- ish themes," says Dame, who holds a doctorate in English literature from Rut- Enid Dame will appear at 2 gers, where she has taught creative writ- p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, with fel- ing. low poets Donald Lev, Lynne "Jewish culture is the focus of a lot of Meredith Cohn and Mark my poetry because I write about what Phillips, in a "JFK Memorial inspires me. I'm not Orthodox, but I Reading" at the Birmingham find religion a connection with some- Community House, 380 Bates, thing bigger than myself. Judaism is the in Birmingham. Admission is religion and culture of my family and free. For more information, call that has shaped me and is important to (313) 267-5300, Ext. 338. me." Dame, sister of Baltimore Jewish. oetry helps Enid Dame live more fully. She thinks of her verse, often about the roles of Jewish women, as a way of knocking down bar- riers to self-exploration. An important subject for Dame has become Lilith, Adam's forceful, and often berated, first wife, whose imagery fills a new anthology, Which. Lilith? Fem- OUR TRAYS CAN'T BE BEAT FOR QUALITY ogr_ PRICE! Meat trays Dairy trays Times Editor and former Detroit Jewish News Editor Phil Jacobs, presented her Evergreen Road at Civic Center Drive ( 1 0 1 /2 Mile Road) 1 - 696 to Evergreen south Show Preview: www.anticinet.com/M&M In •