Author Archives: Shira Dentz

You can read more about Sisyphusina in this feature at POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA : Shira Dentz on “Sisyphusina”

POETRY TODAY: TRUST AND IDEALISM • Poetry Today features living poets answering questions about poetry and poetics. You can read Ruben Quesada’s interview with me about Sisyphusina in Kenyon Review here

Here are two excerpts from Cody Stetzel’s review of Sisyphusina in Colorado Review: What I admire about Sisyphusina is that whether through time, the self, or the image at work, there is an attempt at definition even if it is … Continue reading →

Pangyrus features my poem,”Slight of Hand,” in their writing on the pandemic series titled IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH : I’ve come for you, cushion-softinstead of being wrapped, we’re loose saltand spray / solid and shadow at once (you can … Continue reading →

“Slide” is noted at Yes, Poetry in “Here’s What Resonated with You in 2020”

Ruben Queseda interviews me about my new book, SISYPHUSINA, in Kenyon Review‘s Poetry Today: Trust and Idealism Poetry Today features living poets answering questions about poetry and poetics. “I took up the challenge of writing about aging within the context of … Continue reading →

Three great poets reading from the Caffe Lena stage in Saratoga Springs, NY, Wed. Dec. 2: David Graham, Shira Dentz and Rana Bitar. Livestream starts at 7PM on Facebook or Youtube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwrlnzHXGSI

Embodied, an intersectional feminist poetry-as-comics anthology is due out in May 2020! Embodied is a collaboration between cis female, trans, and non-binary poets and comics artists published by A Wave Blue World and edited by Wendy Chin-Tanner. Am thrilled to … Continue reading →

A new poem, “Spring ruffles in,” is LOVE’S EXECUTIVE ORDER‘s weekly poem on the Trump presidency and you can read it here!

You can read Rachel Abramowitz review, “To defy the gods: Form, Resilience, & Capaciousness in Shira Dentz’s SISYPHUSINA” in Tupelo Quarterly here (an excerpt) “In the ancient Greek myth of Sisyphus, Sisyphus, king of Corinth and “the most cunning of … Continue reading →