Shira Dentz

Your heart’s a vase,
green light for the many,
loose change.

You lean again to sit quietly.

Breaths are halations through which we trail space.

—Shira Dentz, “Perishables are upon us”

Writers and Words, Tuesday, July 9th, 7 p.m. | Charmington’s | 2601 Howard St, Baltimore, MDfeaturing Shira Dentz, Kelsey Austin, Adam Tedesco, & Mika Quinn

The Bohemian Book Bin, hosted by Teresa Costa, Thursday, July 11, 7PM | Kingston, NY featuring Adam Tedesco, Shira Dentz

So & So Books, Saturday, July 13, 7PM | 704 N Person St., Raleigh, NC

Chop Suey Books, Sunday, July 14, 6PM | 2913 W. Cary St., Richmond, VA

Lisa Fay Coutley, Jericho Brown, Adam Tedesco, Richard Hamilton, my fellow panelists on “Reclaiming Voice: The Recuperative Promise of Poetry” live on Friday, June 22nd at Chautauqua Writers’ Festival! And thanks to Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Atom Atkinson!

Chauttaqua Literary Festival 2019, “Reclaiming Voice: The Recuperative Promise of Poetry,”  Panel: Jericho Brown, Lisa Fay Coutley, Shira Dentz, Richard Hamilton, Adam Tedesco; Ballroom, Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall, June 21, 1PM

Also, I’ll be reading for Poets in Pajamas, a Bi-Monthly Reading Series hosted by Sundress Publications on June 23 at 7PM EST.
Join us at the Poets in Pajamas Facebook page at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on June 23, 2019. When the live video starts, click join to watch the reading and interact. Anna Black will host.

This Sunday, June 9, I’m teaching a prose poem workshop at Hudson Valley Writers Center in Sleepy Hollow, NY, 12:30–4:30. More info and registration here

Word Thursdays—Shira Dentz

Thursday, May 9 at 7PM, Bright Hill Press Literary Center, 94 Church Street, Treadwell, NY

Readings, Panels, and Vis-Po Exhibit, April 18–21, 2019

Reading “Black Flowers” from my new book, the sun a blazing zero

At AWP2019 I’ll be reading from my new book, the sun a blazing zero, at an offsite at @teachaite on e burnside. Come out to this amazing reading we’re co-hosting with @EssayPress @Reality Beach @acrebooks and Lavender Ink/Diáologos!

ALSO:

I’ll be reading from newest book, the sun a blazing zero (Lavender Ink) at Krewe de Louisiane & friends by Lavender Ink and River Writers:

The Big Legrowlski
812 NW Couch Street
Portland, OR 97209
Saturday, March 30, 2-5pm

AND

I’ll be reading and signing my recent book, how do i net thee, here with other Salmon Poetry authors who have new Salmon books including Helene Cardona and Matt Miller:
BOOK FAIR STAGE BOOK SIGNING EVENT!
Thursday 28^th, 12pm – 1.15pm
Zachary A. Doss Memorial Stage 
Exhibit Hall
Oregon Convention Center. Level 1

AND ALSO!!

I will be signing my new book, the sun a blazing zero (Lavender Ink), on Friday, March 29, 2–3PM at the Reality Beach table, 6098. All my books will be for sale at the Reality Beach table, including my previous books, door of thin skins (CavanKerry Press) and black seeds on a white dish (Shearsman). My recent book, how do i net thee, will also be available at the Salmon Poetry AWP table.

Tupelo Quarterly‘s 17th Issue released today! There are a whole host of fabulous writers and artists including, but certainly not limited to, Erica Wright, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Jennifer K. Sweeney & L.I. Henley, Caroline Crew, Sara Henning, Veronica Golos, Angie Macri, Kristi Maxwell, Nancy Reddy, Michael Schmeltzer, Allison Titus, Donald Morrill, Shira Dentz, Jane Wong, and many others!

Here’s a link to my prose piece in the new issue of Tupelo Quarterly, “Morning Glories”