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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Shira Dentz

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Shira Dentz

Shira Dentz [photo credit: Ellen Maddick] 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, 2018), and two... Read More
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Shira Dentz’s Prose Poems Featured in Entropy Magazine

Shira Dentz’s Prose Poems Featured in Entropy Magazine

CavanKerry Press author, Shira Dentz’s prose poems, “Upstate New York Gray (No. 1)” and “Upstate New York Gray (No.2),” are featured in Entropy Magazine’s Sunday “On Weather” Series. Head over to entropymag.org to read... Read More
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“Visual Poetry” from CKP Author Shira Dentz Featured in Poetry Magazine

“Visual Poetry” from CKP Author Shira Dentz Featured in Poetry Magazine

CavanKerry Press author Shira Dentz is featured in the December 2016 issue of Poetry Magazine. Check out the visual poetry called “Scale” by Shira Dentz here. Shira Dentz is also the author of “door... Read More
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Shira Dentz’s “door of thin skins” in zoran rosko vacuum player

Shira Dentz’s “door of thin skins” in zoran rosko vacuum player

"Plunges into the visceral, the sensual, are indispensable anchors in Dentz’s text. Sight—and not just sight, but visual texture—engages you at a bodily level."   Read more at zoran rosko vacuum... Read More
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Shira Dentz's "Flounders" from Essay Press

Shira Dentz's "Flounders" from Essay Press

"In this work, I engage with notions of form and beauty that I, as an artist and a social being, have inherited and tacitly acknowledge or actively work against." Read... Read More
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“door of thin skins” reviewed in Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction

“door of thin skins” reviewed in Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction

This is not one of those books you read in order to find out what happened; knowing the end doesn’t spoil one single thing that comes before, because suspense about... Read More
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Two poems from Shira Dentz

Two poems from Shira Dentz

This poem is part of CavanKerry’s series for National Poetry Month.  Every day in April, we post a poem from our community of writers. Palm trees blowing, feathers evening’s husk, palm         trees black.can... Read More
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Grab the Lapels reviews “door of thin skins”

Grab the Lapels reviews “door of thin skins”

"This is the painful and unrelenting tale of Dr. Abe, psychologist and psychic vampire, and his patient/victim, a poet (poetess, he states sibilantly, beginning the process of her dismantling on... Read More
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For Florenz: “Hands” by Shira Dentz

For Florenz: “Hands” by Shira Dentz

I would like to say that Florenz was the person at CKP with whom I had the most contact while my book was being made and I associate her presence... Read More
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