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About Me

My debut poetry collection is ‘General Release from the Beginning of the World’ (2023, Free Verse Editions). I am an emeritus psychology professor, MacDowell fellow, rabbinical school drop-out, and former classical flutist. I was featured as one of ‘5 over 50 debut authors’ in Poets & Writers Magazine (11/23). My chapbooks include ‘Slippery Surfaces’, ‘And Haunt the World’ (with Flower Conroy). and ‘Dear Ghost’ (winner, 2023 Harbor Review Editor’s prize).  My poems appear or are forthcoming on The Academy of American Poets website, and in the Tahoma Literary Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. My new book, ‘To Phrase a Prayer for Peace’ is forthcoming from Wildhouse Publishing in 2025.There is more about me at Yetzirah 

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