SHIRIM: A JEWISH POETRY JOURNAL

Over 40 years publishing poetry of Jewish Reference

15th Anniversary: (Vol XIV No. II & Vol. XV No I (1996))

Poets & American Jews: A Collection of Poetry & Personal Reflections

For this fifteenth anniversary issue, we have focused on poets who have appeared in SHIRIM and are writing about life in America. In addition to the poems, there are personal reflections by some of the poets on their Jewish experience and their poetry. Poets include: Grace Schulman, Carl Rakosi, Stanley Moss, Daniel Mark Epstein, Robert Mezey, Deena Metzger, Jerome Rothenberg and many others.

Here is the table of contents from that issue:

Author Title Page
Foreword 5
Grace Schulman Reflections 7
Grace Schulman Songs of My Fathers 10
Grace Schulman The Law 11
Grace Schulman Carrion 12
Carl Rakosi Reflections 14
Carl Rakosi Services 16
Carl Rakosi L'Chayim 17
Carl Rakosi Associations with a View from the House 18
Kate Braverman Reflections 19
Kate Braverman Words 21
Kate Braverman Equinox 22
Stanley Moss Reflections 24
Stanley Moss For Margaret 25
Stanley Moss Fishermen 26
Stanley Moss Kangaroo 27
Stanley Moss Song 28
Interview with William Pillin 29
William Pillin Yohrzeit 32
William Pillin Dream 33
William Pillin Electric Heater 33
William Pillin Saying the Shema 34
Karl Shapiro The Mezuzah 35
Lawrence P. Springarn Jacob and Rachel 36
Daniel Mark Epstein Reflections 38
Daniel Mark Epstein Dutch 40
Daniel Mark Epstein Silence 41
Daniel Mark Epstein The Cages 42
Albert Goldbarth Pangaea 43
Andrew Codrescu From Our Dues 44
Robert Mezey Bert Meyers 45
Bert Meyers The Garlic 47
Bert Meyers Here's the Autumn 47
Bert Meyers The Dark Birds 48
Bert Meyers Daybreak 48
Robert Mezey To Levine on the Day of Atonement 49
Robert Mezey I am Beginning to Hear 50
David Meltzer Reflections 51
David Meltzer Tree for Reb Zvi 53
Deena Metzger Reflections 55
Deena Metzger Who Knows What the Thirst is For 56
Deena Metzger How Do You know the Beggar at the Door is Not an Angel? 57
Jerome Rothenberg Yaqui 1982 58
S. F. Chyet Reflections 60
S. F. Chyet For the Duration 61
S. F. Chyet Untitled 62
Michael Heller Reflections 63
Michael Heller The American Jewish Clock 64
Michael Heller In a Dark Time, on his Grandfather 65
Morton Marcus Reflections 66
Morton Marcus Defender of the Faith 68
Jack Marshall Reflections 70
Jack Marshall Grace 72
Benjamin Saltman Reflections 74
Benjamin Saltman Old Jewish Cemetery in Boyle Heights 76
Benjamin Saltman Moving Day 77
Marcia Falk Reflections 79
Malka Heifetz Tussman With Teeth in the Earth 80
Myra Sklarew Prayer for Endings 81
Biographical Notes 82

A pdf of the table of contents from the original issue is available here.