Shira Dentz

my new book is at the printer! more info soon!

Come to Poetry Thursdays at Russell Sage College’s The Rev Reading Series curated by Matthew Klane! I’m reading with Geoffrey Babbitt at  7 pm on 2/22. Geoffrey Babbitt will be reading poems from his new book of poems, Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light, hot off  the press from Spuyten Duyvil, and my reading will include pieces from my forthcoming book, how do i net thee, out next month from Salmon Poetry.

Sage College is in downtown Troy, and this reading series takes place in the Donahue Poetry Room, Shea 2nd Floor.

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Shira Dentz

(photo by Kathy High)

This week, two new prose poems, “Upstate New  York Gray (no. 1)”  and“Upstate New York Gray (no. 2)” in Entropy Magazine’s Sunday ON WEATHER Series.

SUNDAY, JUNE 11th, 2017

KATHLINE CARR & SHIRA DENTZ

READING AND BOOK SIGNING

Shira Dentz is the author of three full-length books,  black seeds on a white dish (Shearsman), door of thin skins (CavanKerry), and how do i net thee (Salmon Poetry, forthcoming 2018), and two chapbooks, Leaf Weather (Shearsman), and FLOUNDERS (Essay Press).

Kathline Carr, writer and visual artist, is the author of Miraculum Monstrum, forthcoming from Red Hen Press and winner of the 2015 Clarissa Dalloway Book Prize. Carr’s writing and art have appeared in Yew Journal, Entropy, Alexandria Quarterly, Calyx, Connecticut Review, and elsewhere.

6pm – 7pm at Bascom Lodge, North Adams, MA / Mount Greylock State Reservation, DCR, The Historic Curatorship Program

FREE and Open to the Public, in the lodge. Directions and additional info here.

at Hobart and William Smith Colleges • 7:30PM, Hirshson Ballroom

I’m honored to have my visual poem, “Scale,” appear in this month’s issue of Poetry Magazine.

Koh Xin Tian interviews me about FLOUNDERS, my new e-chap from Essay Press (downloadable for free at Essay Press here)!

Koh Xin Tian: Journaling, poetry, prose, and the intersection of different registers and styles of text come together in the form of your poetry chapbook FLOUNDERS. In the introduction, you write: “I want the texture of this work to be soft like wax, melting in places though not evaporating, some spots more hardened than others. The text throughout this chapbook shifts between fragments, sentences, poetry, prose, visual elements, objective/subjective content, up-close and distant perspectives.” As a graphic designer and writer, does the macro come before the micro or vice versa for you when you are picturing a completed product?

CONTINUE READING HERE

During the month of November you will see a bevy of new work at the magazine that I curated/edited as Special Features Editor — twelve new reviews, along with an essay by Anne Gorrick and an interview with and new music by Pauline Oliveros.

Anne Gorrick — “Taking Text Outside = Interstitial Acts” — which begins: “Let’s think a bit about textual art that is ephemeral, outside, fugitive; text that isn’t carved into a building or a street or a stone or a wall.  Let’s note the diminutive textual adventure.  The infinitesimal moment.  I want to think about earth texts beyond shelter.  Going outside brings the death in a little, releases the work into the air.  Poem as prayer flag.  Poem as act against the immaculate.  Text as emphatic and intimate protest.”

Renee Gladman’s Calamities (Wave Books, 2016), reviewed by Aisha Sabatini Sloan. “Each essay in Calamities has about it the quality of Ikea instructions. Instead of a bookcase, though, these are directions for a cardboard device that makes the world look different than it was, like what Michel Gondry might try— a pinhole camera or chakra lenses or Google Glass. The thing she is telling you how to make is pure imagination, it is not something you would or could bring to life—but you can wear it by reading her essays.”

Craig Dworkin’s Alkali (Counterpath Press, 2015), reviewed by Martin Corless-Smith. “Alkali is a magisterial kunstkammer, a new periodic tableau planted in a crystal garden of arcane knowledge and preposterous invention, a glockenspiel orchestration of aural augury that dances an irresistible instance of our geo-lyrical world.”

Upcoming reviews include C.D. Wright’s Shallcross reviewed by Celia Bland; Joy Harjo’s Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings reviewed by Kelly Lydick; Michelle Detorie’s After-Cave reviewed by Nathan Hauke; Vi Khi Nao’s The Old Philosopher reviewed by Cheryl Clark Vermeulen; J’Lyn Chapman’s Beastlife reviewed by Arianne Zwartjes; Ravi Shankar’s What Else Could It Be reviewed by Ralph Pennel; Anca Cristofovici’s Stela reviewed by Matt Kirkpatrick; Barbara Duffey’s Simple Machines reviewed by Christine Stewart-Nuñez; and Joseph Massey’s Illocality, and Jean Valentine’s Shirt in Heaven, both reviewed by Elisabeth Whitehead.

Please make a trip over YEWJOURNAL.COM to see new work from writers Rachel Abramowitz, Shira Dentz, and Stephanie Schlaifer and artists Michelle Abramowitz, Joie Bourisseau, Kathline Carr, and Jana Harper and visual poems by J.I. Kleinberg.

For my poems, “Psalm” and “window1 & window2” in collaboration with art by Kathline Carr, click here