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great weather for MEDIA at The Seligmann Center

October 9, 2016, 2–4PM Featured readers: Roger Aplon, Shira Dentz, Janet Hamill, Erik Ipsen, Jane Ormerod, and John J. Trause. The Seligmann Center is located about 50 miles northwest of New York City in a vibrant rural area of Orange County, in the … Continue reading

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The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker

Now out! The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker is a fearless and dynamic collection of contemporary poetry and short fiction by established and emerging writers. This is essential reading for everyone looking for the innovative, the reflective, and the fearless. … Continue reading

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two new poems in the awesome new issue of Brooklyn Rail

Two “pink chants” & “grammatica” by Shira Dentz  

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This Thursday: Fence presents LIVING POETS MUSICAL THEATER at EMPAC

This Thursday, June 9 at 9 p.m., in conjunction with the Albany Symphony’s New Music Festival, FENCE presents an evening of poetry performances curated by Rebecca Wolff at EMPAC. The event features poet-performers Shira Dentz and Diana Alvarez. Living Poets … Continue reading

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Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction

In her review, “Based on a True Story,” that appears in the Spring 2016 issue of Fourth Genre, Holly Welker focuses on door of thin skins, along with Kate Greenstreet’s Young Tambling, and Eleni Sikelianos, You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek).

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NOW AVAILABLE AT ESSAY PRESS

My new, free e-chap, FLOUNDERS— — — — Classical beauty depends on symmetry, and our love for symmetry is organic and essential to our survival as individuals and as a species, reproductively (signaling health in a mate) and otherwise. In … Continue reading

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My collaborative poem-video, “Saidist” featured this month

at PoetrySeen http://poetryseen.com/saidst-shira-dentz-and-kathy-high/ “Saidst” Shira Dentz and Kathy High This collaborative poem-video, “sadist,” developed out of a collaborative piece centered on female aging that Shira performed at &NOW 2015, that is also part of a larger work. Shira’s collaborator is Kathy … Continue reading

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Reading in Volume Reading Series

Volume presents Jenny Offill, Shira Dentz, and Courtney Maum– Saturday, April 9 @Spotty Dog Books & Ale, 440  Warren St., Hudson NY

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review of door of thin skins

in zoran rosko vacuum player: Shira Dentz narrates a fairy-tale-like story, “perhaps / a fairy tale,” of a young woman’s trials with her shapeshifting psychotherapist, Dr. Abe. Part lizard, part whale, part Macy’s Day balloon, Dr. Abe is a big … Continue reading

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Friday, April 1 • off-site AWP Reading!

Noemi/Ricochet/Shearsman/Tarpaulin Sky/Drunken Boat/Anomalous/Gold Line Cost: Free Event URL: https://www.facebook.com/events/1682549952017451 Come for poetry, prose, wine, & vittles with authors from these six presses! [Brent Armendinger•Chloe Garcia-Roberts•Nathan Parker] [Cameron Awkward-Rich•Elisabeth Frost] [Maxine Chernoff•Shira Dentz•Carrie Etter•Deborah Meadows] [Dana Green•Elizabeth Hall•Kim Parko] [Kirstin Chen•TimTomlinson][Scott … Continue reading

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