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Taking poetic license

Metulla Poetry Festival guest Lior Sternberg has been inspired by the capital.

Lior Sternberg
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The biblical description of a stranger in a strange land does not quite fit the bill, but Lior Sternberg is clearly something of a hybrid adopted son-émigré. The 44-year-old Jerusalem resident poet, who is on the roster of next week’s Confederation House 15th annual Poetry Festival in Metulla (May 25-27), was born in Petah Tikva and gravitated to the capital, initially to study at the Hebrew University.

“I have been here for 20 years, so you could say I feel at home in Jerusalem now,” says Sternberg.

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