Author Archives: Shira Dentz

in HTML Giant: The retina is brain tissue that lines the inner surface of the eye, captures images of the visual world, and communicates them to the brain. continue reading here…  

in Tarpaulin Sky! Shira Dentz’s hybrid poetry/prose memoir, door of thin skins, opens on a scene with Dr. Abe in his “watering hole,” the New York penthouse apartment-turned-office where the 60-year-old psychotherapist sees city patients. Here, too, we are introduced … Continue reading →

in The Blind Chatelaine’s Keys: DOOR OF THIN SKINS, poems by Shira Dentz (poems which as a sum (as a collection) is more than its parts (individual poems). Good example—an urgent motivation—as to why poetry should be more than verse. … Continue reading →

PEPPER LUBOFF interviews me about door of thin skins in July’s OmniVerse (Omnidawn Publishing’s blog) here:

Check out the newest issue of DB’s review section including my audio interview with Cole Swensen here! The 39 reviews presented here discuss 45 books and are in conversation with ongoing conversations both within and without the literary community at-large, … Continue reading →

Nin Andrews interviews me on CavanKerry Press’ blog about my new book, door of thin skins, here

Poet of the Month: Shira Dentz April 2013 at Poetrynet.org: http://www.poetrynet.org/month/  

Available online through Amazon and Barnes & Noble, & selected bookstores! Distributed by University Press of New England. http://www.amazon.com/door-thin-skins-Emerging-Voices/dp/1933880368 http://www.cavankerrypress.org/emerging_sdentz_door.htmlhttp://www.upne.com/1933880365.html A hybrid of poetry, prose, and visual elements, door of thin skins is a tale that unfolds in a psychotherapist’s and … Continue reading →

Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, 12/13/12: “a woman all about love yesterday.” by Shira Dentz & watch/read on Poem Flow!