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On Weather: Upstate New York Gray

written by Guest Contributor July 9, 2017

*orchids tumbling in the air, scot-free.

 

Upstate New York Gray (no. 1)

 

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*orchids tumbling in the air, scot-free.

 

Upstate New York Gray  (no. 2)

 

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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), and two chapbooks, Leaf Weather (Shearsman), and FLOUNDERS (Essay Press). Her writing has appeared in many journals including Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, New American Writing, Brooklyn Rail, and Western Humanities Review, and featured at Poets.org, NPR, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. Interviews with her appear in venues including Ploughshares and The Rumpus, and she is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets’ Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Memorial Awards, Electronic Poetry Review’s Discovery Award, and Painted Bride Quarterly’s Poetry Prize. Shira was Drunken Boat‘s Reviews Editor from 2011-2016, and is currently Special Features Editor at Tarpaulin Sky, and teaches creative writing at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. More about her writing can be found at shiradentz.com.
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