Rafi Aaron

is an award-winning poet who has written four books of poetry and a play. His poems have been published in literary magazines and anthologies, as well as translated into Hebrew. Rafi has read his poetry in such venues as The Canadian Consulate in New York City, The Jewish National Museum in Washington, D.C., The University of Toronto and The University of St. Petersburg, Russia where he delivered The Alexander Mackenzie Memorial Lecture. He is the curator and poet for the exhibit, A Seed in the Pocket of Their Blood, which has travelled throughout Canada, with showings in The United States and Israel. A documentary on Rafi’s poetic works entitled The Sound Traveller, produced by Endless Films, has aired on Bravo TV and Book Television. The Toronto Star has described Rafi as a poet “who allows simple, fresh, vivid words to cut individual jewels out of the material of language.”