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is reviewed in Chronogram‘s annual poetry roundup in its June 2014 issue here.  The lineup of poets and books are: Celia Bland/Dianne Kornberg – Madonna Comix (William James) Shira Dentz – door of thin skins (CavanKerry) Sarah Heady – Niagara … Continue reading →

in Upstate NY: Woodstock’s Kleinert James Art Center, NY, June 28 at 6PM Writers Read, Good Purpose Gallery, 40 Main Street, Lee, MA, June 26 at 6PM Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs, NY, with Suzanne Parker, June 4 at 7:30PM Community … Continue reading →

reviewed by Danielle Cadenza Deulen in The Georgia Review

Part of National Poetry Month Russell Sage College (Part Reading + Community Share + Part Q&A) April 1, 7PM, Meader Little Theater, Free & Open to the Public Panel includes: Shira Dentz faculty at RPI, editor for Drunken Boat Dan … Continue reading →

“It is emotionally complex and riveting despite its detachment. It complicates the label of confessional poetry or memoir with its formal agility and its conceptual demands of its reader. It is a welcome addition to those books that teach us … Continue reading →

“I am grateful the poet created this book.” Read full review by Eileen Tabios

“Perhaps we need a new genre to define Dentz’s work: autobio-poetics, for example, work that mines intense (in this case, devastating) personal experience through hybrid forms for its lyric potential and narrative exigencies creating a text that is part memoir/part … Continue reading →

Megan Burns reviews door of thin skins: “Poetry is fiction that is born from truth…” //  “What unlocks the unlocked voice? Can it be simply said or is the space that poetry inhabits, a space that teaches us to see … Continue reading →

Organizational principles. Shira Dentz’s door of thin skins has a few. Persona. Metaphor. Hearts. Birds. Diagrams. What Dentz does so well in this collection is to connect then turn inside-out these organizations. Nicole Walker reviews door of thin skins here

The brilliance of Door of Thin Skins lies not only in the narrative, but also in the way Shira Dentz stretches and fractures language, not just to report on damage, but to enact damage, trauma and the mind’s desperate attempt … Continue reading →