List of Issues
Below is a catalog of SHIRIM dating from the first issue in 1982 to the most current issue:
1982-1989
- Vol I (Sept 1982)
- Vol II (Mar 1983)
- Vol II/II (Oct 1983): A Selection of Canadian Poets (Guest Editor: Seymour Mayne)
- Vol III/II (Mar 1984)
- Vol III/II (Oct 1984): A Selection of Poetry from San Francisco (Guest Editor: Neeli Cherkovski)
- Vol IV/I (Mar 1985): Jewish Poets Search For Spirituality
- Vol IV/II (Oct 1985): English Writing Poets in Israel (Guest Editor: Robert Friend)
- Vol V/I (Mar 1986): William Pillin’s Last Poems
- Vol V/II (Oct 1986): Three California Poets: Braverman, Falk, Metzger
- Vol VI/I (Mar 1987): Kabbalist and Surrealist Poetry: Roditi and Meltzer
- Vol VI/II (Oct 1987): The Poetry of Bert Meyers and Grace Schulman (Guest Editor: Robert Mezey)
- Vol VII/I (Mar 1988): The Poetry of Carl Rakosi and A Student Selection
- Vol VII/II (Oct 1988): Jewish Poets of France (Guest Editor: Edouard Roditi)
- Vol VIII/I (Mar 1989): Poetry of Jerome Rothenberg
- Vol VIII/II (Oct 1989): Five Israeli Poets on War
1990-1999
- Vol IX/I (Mar 1990): Words and Spirit
- Vol IX/II (Dec 1990): The Poetry of Stanley Moss & 3 Israeli Poets
- Vol X/I (June 1991): Jewish Poets of Romania
- Vol X/II (Dec 1991): In Search of a Jewish Aesthetic and the Poetry of Benjamin Saltman
- Vol XI/I (Jun 1992): In Memory of Edouard Roditi
- Vol XI/II (Dec 1992): The Poetry of Jorge Luis Borges
- XII/I (Jul 1993): The Poetry of Rachel, Zelda and Yona Wallach
- XII/II (Dec 1993): American Women Poets Experience Israel
- XIII/I (Jul 1994): The Poetry of Jack Marshall
- XIII/II (Dec 1994): The Poetry of Daniel Mark Epstein
- XIV/I (Jul 1995): The Poetry of Haim Gouri and Michael Heller
- Vol XIV/II & XV/I (1996): Poets & American Jews: A Collection of Poetry & Personal Reflections (15th Anniversary)
- Vol XV/II (Dec 1996): The Poetry of Myra Sklarew
- Vol XVI/II (1997): Israel: A Jubilee (Guest Editor: Stanley F. Chyet)
- Vol XVII/I (1998): Polish-Jewish Poetry Between the Wars Guest (Guest Editors/Translators: Aniela and Jerzy Gregorek)
- Vol XVII/II (1998): Contemporary Voices
- Vol XVIII/I (1999): The Poetry of Malkah Shaked and Robert Sward
2000-2009
- Vol XVIII/II (2000): Richard Fein: Poetry and Yiddish Translations
- Vol XIX/I (2000): Poetry of Patty Seyburn and Remembering Benjamin Saltman
- Vol XIX/II & XX/I (2001): An Homage to Yehuda Amichai (Guest Editor: Stanley F. Chyet)
- Vol XX/II (2002): The Poetry of Norman Corwin and Gail Dendy (Guest Editor: Stanley F. Chyet)
- Vol XXI/I (2003): Remembering S. F. Chyet
- Vol XXI/II (2003): The War Poetry and Letters of Isaac Rosenberg
- Vol XXII/I (2004): Nathan Alterman's Tel Aviv, 1930's
- Vol XXII/II (2004): The Poetry of Maurycy Szymel (Guest Editors/Translators: Aniela and Jerzy Gregorek)
- Vol XXIII/I (2005): The Poetry of Abraham Sutzkever and Carol V. Davis
- Vol XXIII/II & XIV/I (2005-2006): Israeli Women Poets (Guest Editor: Miriyam Glazer)
- Vol XXIV/II (2006): The Poetry of Myra Sklarew
- Vol XXV/I (2007): The Poetry of Eytan Eytan (Guest Editors/Translators: Moshe Dor and Merrill Leffler)
- Vol XXV/II (2007): The Poetry of Israel and Jerusalem
- Vol XXVI/I (2008): Dryad at 40 (Guest Editor: Merrill Leffler)
- Vol XXVI/II (2008): 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht (Guest Editor: Charles Fishman)
- Vol XXVII/I (2009): Psalms of the Jewish Liturgy (Guest Editor/Translator: Miriyam Glazer)
2010-2019
- Vol XXVII/II & XXVIII/I (2010): British Jewish Poetry (Guest Editor: Peter Lawson)
- Vol XXVIII/II & XXIX/I (2010-2011): Israeli Love Poetry (Guest Editors/Translators: Moshe Dor and Barbara Goldberg)
- Vol XXIX/II & XXX/I (2011-2012): Jewish Canadian Poetry (Guest Editor: Seymour Mayne)
- Vol XXX/II & XXXI/I (2012-2013): Sources of Jewish Poetry: A Thirty-Year SHIRIM Retrospective (Guest Editor: Merrill Leffler)
- Vol XXXI/II & XXXII/I (2013-2014): Israeli Poets on War and Peace (Guest Editor: Barbara Goldberg)
- Vol XXXII/II & XXXIII/I (2014-2015): Poems of Jewish Bible and Folklore including Commentaries and Midrashim (Guest Editor: Merrill Leffler, in association with Dryad Press)
- Vol XXXIII/II & XXXIV/I (2015-2016): Poetry of Jewish Latin American Women (Guest Editor: Marjorie Agosin)
- Vol XXXIV/II & XXXV/I (2016-2017): Dream the Living into Speech: A Selection of Poems and a Homage to Yiddish By Seymour Mayne
- Vol XXXV/II & XXXVI/I (2017-2018): A Selection of Contemporary Jewish American Poets (Guest Editor: Carol V. Davis)
- Vol XXXVI/II & XXXVII/I (2018-2019): "No More Mozart" & Other Poems on the Holocaust (Guest Editor: Charles Aides Fishman)
- Vol XXXVII/II & XXXVIII/I (2019-2020): Irving Layton: The Jewish Poems (Guest Editor: Seymour Mayne)
2020-Present
- Vol XXXVIII/II & XXXIX/I (2020-2021): Contemporary Israeli Poets in Translation (Guest Editor: Barbara Goldberg)
- Vol XXXIX/II & XL/I (2021-2022): SHIRIM at 40: A Retrospective of Yiddish Poetry
- Vol XL/II & XLI/I (2022-2023): Four Contemporary Jewish Women Poets (Guest Editor: Carol V. Davis)
- Vol XLI/II & Vol. XLII/I (2023-2024): Richard Fein's Poetry and his Translations of Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
An index of poets, listing each issue in which they were published, is available here (.pdf, 60.5 Kb).
A list of guest editors is available here (.pdf, 33.7 Kb).