Author Archives: Shira Dentz

In her review, “Based on a True Story,” that appears in the Spring 2016 issue of Fourth Genre, Holly Welker focuses on door of thin skins, along with Kate Greenstreet’s Young Tambling, and Eleni Sikelianos, You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek).

My new, free e-chap, FLOUNDERS— — — — Classical beauty depends on symmetry, and our love for symmetry is organic and essential to our survival as individuals and as a species, reproductively (signaling health in a mate) and otherwise. In … Continue reading →

at PoetrySeen http://poetryseen.com/saidst-shira-dentz-and-kathy-high/ “Saidst” Shira Dentz and Kathy High This collaborative poem-video, “sadist,” developed out of a collaborative piece centered on female aging that Shira performed at &NOW 2015, that is also part of a larger work. Shira’s collaborator is Kathy … Continue reading →

Volume presents Jenny Offill, Shira Dentz, and Courtney Maum– Saturday, April 9 @Spotty Dog Books & Ale, 440  Warren St., Hudson NY

in zoran rosko vacuum player: Shira Dentz narrates a fairy-tale-like story, “perhaps / a fairy tale,” of a young woman’s trials with her shapeshifting psychotherapist, Dr. Abe. Part lizard, part whale, part Macy’s Day balloon, Dr. Abe is a big … Continue reading →

Noemi/Ricochet/Shearsman/Tarpaulin Sky/Drunken Boat/Anomalous/Gold Line Cost: Free Event URL: https://www.facebook.com/events/1682549952017451 Come for poetry, prose, wine, & vittles with authors from these six presses! [Brent Armendinger•Chloe Garcia-Roberts•Nathan Parker] [Cameron Awkward-Rich•Elisabeth Frost] [Maxine Chernoff•Shira Dentz•Carrie Etter•Deborah Meadows] [Dana Green•Elizabeth Hall•Kim Parko] [Kirstin Chen•TimTomlinson][Scott … Continue reading →

I’m reading this Saturday, March 5, at 6PM in the Publicly Complex Reading Series at Ada Books in Providence, R.I., with Ravi Shankar and Camille Rankine.

by Nathan Meltz and Shira Dentz at Tarpaulin Sky

Shira Dentz curates: six reviews, an interview, and a tribute

A journal of new work, essays, & interviews beyond Omnidawn’s publications OmniVerse 63 My poem, “saidst,” with images captured from a video by visual artist Kathy High