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Shira Dentz

Shira Dentz is the author of six books including Sisyphusina (Astrophil Press), winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize, and three chapbooks including FLOUNDERS (Essay Press). Her writing appears in Poetry, APR, Iowa Review, Conjunctions, The Baffler, swamp pink, Lana Turner, Blackbird, VOLT, New American Writing, Colorado Review, Brooklyn Rail, Poets.org, and NPR. She’s received awards from the Academy of American Poets and Poetry Society of America, and currently lives and works in upstate NY.  
  • Shira Dentz

    senescence

    to measure the dark, to measure the lemon,the frost, crackthe swivel in the cart at rest, in the darkmarooned leaves mulch beneath snowso no now owna wood slab divorced from a treedisplays bare insidesforthright as an organwith no coveringbald without…