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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General Release from the Beginning of the World (2023) is available from Free Verse Editions! And thank you Camille Dungy and Orion Magazine for choosing my book as one of 14 recommended poetry books for the winter!
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My second full length book, 'To Phrase a Prayer for Peace,' is forthcoming from Wildhouse Publishing in 2025.
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I was one of 5 over 50 debut authors featured in the Nov/Dec 2023 issue of Poets & Writers. You can read it here and watch/listen to it here.
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I won the 2023 Harbor Editions Editors Prize for my microchapbook, Dear Ghost. You can read it here.
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Flower Conroy and I were recently MacDowell Fellows, and have a collaborative chapbook, And Haunt the World, with Ghost City Press. Download it for free here!
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A link to my Academic CV can be found here
