SHIRIM: A JEWISH POETRY JOURNAL

Over 40 years publishing poetry of Jewish Reference

Vol XLII/II & Vol. XLIII/I (2024-2025)

Remembering Myra Sklarew

Here is the table of contents from this issue (excerpts are available here):

Section Author Title Page
Carol V. Davis An Appreciation of the Poetry of Myra Sklarew 5
Myra Sklarew Reflections 10
POEMS Myra Sklarew Grandfather Lost and Found 12
Myra Sklarew Forest 15
Myra Sklarew Ode to the Czar's Assassin 16
Myra Sklarew On Thin Ice 20
Myra Sklarew Kinneret 21
Myra Sklarew What I Could Not Tell You 22
Myra Sklarew Impasse 25
Myra Sklarew A Worthy Cause 26
Myra Sklarew Moses 27
Myra Sklarew Miracles 27
Myra Sklarew Keeping Silent: for Stanley Kunitz 28
Myra Sklarew For the Sake of a Poem 30
Myra Sklarew Sacrifice 32
Myra Sklarew from the backyard of the diaspora 33
Myra Sklarew April 1943: Borszczow 34
Myra Sklarew On Muranowska Street 35
Myra Sklarew Piyyut for the Day of Atonement 36
Myra Sklarew Harmless 37
Myra Sklarew Crossing Over 38
Myra Sklarew Transplant 40
Myra Sklarew Decision 41
Myra Sklarew Horseradish 42
Myra Sklarew Poem of the Mother 43
Myra Sklarew Like That 44
Myra Sklarew Twenty-Four Hours 45
Myra Sklarew The Way the World Is 46
Myra Sklarew spinoza 47
Myra Sklarew Exchange 48
Myra Sklarew Our Angels Don't Have Wings 50
Myra Sklarew The Messiah Reconsidered 51
Myra Sklarew Laisves Aleja: Kovno 54
Myra Sklarew By Telephone 55
Myra Sklarew If the Dead Return to Us 56
Myra Sklarew 1941 58
Myra Sklarew holocaust 59
Myra Sklarew December 60
Myra Sklarew poetry 61
Myra Sklarew what is a jewish poem 62
Myra Sklarew The Cry 63
Myra Sklarew Prayer for Endings 64

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