Author Archives: Shira Dentz

I read from my new book, SISYPHUSINA (PANK Books), for National Poetry Month 2020, thanks to Tina Cane’s new virtual reading series!

is available now!

In the newly resurrected can we have our ball back?!!!!!!!!! three poems: “Gut the Lion,” “It makes there be some duende,” and “47 or 4 or 7” & a collaborative poem with Adam Tedesco & Aimee Wright Claw, “Unsayable & … Continue reading →

One of the social functions of art is to document and respond to the human condition. In response to the global Covid-19 pandemic, The Nervous Breakdown presents three poems by three contemporary American poets.  One of the social functions of … Continue reading →

by KATHRYN COWLES Some books of poems have to teach you how to read them because you can’t read them any of the old ways. Some books, in addition to being about whatever they’re about, are also about improvising a … Continue reading →

Poetry in Performance at the College of Saint Rose Students perform poems from Shira Dentz’s how do i net thee (Salmon Poetry, 2018). Listen here at SoundCloud

“Let the possum go,” a poem from THE SUN A BLAZING ZERO (Lavender Ink/Diálogos, 2019) featured at Verse Daily on Monday, 3/16/20. Read it here!

“MAGICAL REALISM” BY SHIRA DENTZ

Wow, what James Knippen wrote in his shout-out to a a few of the best books of poetry he’s read in 2019: “THE SUN A BLAZING ZERO, Shira Dentz: I am a sucker for poems that eschew traditional syntax for … Continue reading →