Shira Dentz

THE INDIANAPOLIS REVIEW‘s new issue 18: Fall 2021 is Poets Are Funny! A found poem, that I, well, found, appears in it along with some really LOL work! Take a breather for it all! You’ll probably laugh your head off as I did when I read this issue.

“Have you renewed your poetic license yet?”

ANTHROPOCENE is a new zine based in the UK, and I love that these new poems of mine appear here, & hope you get to read them and check out this zine! Even their home page is rock star.

“Footsteps on the ceiling” and “Anywhere Face”

Jessica Goodfellow reviews Sisyphusina at Barrelhouse

here are excerpts:

“How many poems there are about male aging in the canon? Their proliferation makes the implicit assumption that the male experience is the default for aging. For example, searching the Academy of American Poets website yields twenty-four example poems on the topic, only two of which are by women. Where are the poems about menopause, the loss of conventional beauty markers, and the invisibility of the aging woman in society? Dentz, in seeking to make room for such female experiences, finds that exploring and bending space is a necessary response, as is the augmentation of words with images and music.”

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“On top of dizzyingly original arrangements of words and forms, this collection offers artistic and musical collaborations, which are better experienced than described. Either a QR code at the end of the book or an online link will take you to the sound performance “Aging Music,” performed by Pauline Oliveras, which was co-imagined with Dentz’s Sisyphusina. Additionally, a poem-film based on Dentz’s “saidst,” jointly made with Kathy High, is available online. With so many modalities for the witnessing the exploration on women’s aging, Dentz has more than done her part to record this complicated experience, available vocabulary notwithstanding, for the future canon.”

On the Seawall, “Swatch,” “Tree,” “Mozart’s Colander”

Big City Lit, “Wolf Shadow”

Sharing my new eco poem in the newest issue of The Idaho Review that I first wrote and presented at “The Mind’s Eye” co-hosted by MassMOCA and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) for SLOW: A Symposium on Praxis & Theory.

Honored to be among the contributors to this innovative new anthology!

Embodied: An Intersectional Feminist Comics Poetry Anthology (Wave Blue World, 2021)
Edited by Wendy and Tyler Chin-Tanner

Poems by: Kenzie Allen, Ruth Awad, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Wendy Chin-Tanner, Kendra DeColo, Shira Dentz, Carolina Ebeid, Jenn Givhan, Caroline Hagood, Laura Hinton, JP Howard, Omotara James, Virginia Konchan, Miller Oberman, Khadijah Queen, Maggie Smith, Diane Suess, Sokunthary Svay, Venus Thrash, Paul Tran, Vanessa Villarreal, Khaty Xiong.

Art by: Weshoyot Alvitre, Lesley Atlansky, Ned Barnett, Morgan Beem, Carola Borelli, Rio Burton, Mia Casesa, Gab Contreras, Marika Cresta, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Ronnie Garcia, Jen Hickman, Liana Kangas, Miss Lasko-Gross, Soo Lee, Jessica Lynn, Takeia Marie, Hazel Newlevant, Emily Pearson, Kaylee Rowena, Y. Sanders, Ayşegül Sınav, Stelladia, Jude Vignants, Ashley A. Woods, Sara Wooley

Letters by Cardinal Rae and Saida Temofonte
Cover by Claudia Ianniciello

Mystical, rooted, painful, joyous, and ecstatic; visions of the body, our genders, and our very identities from across the spectrum of contemporary poetry come together in this monumental intersectional feminist anthology where verse and comics unite in spectacular new ways.