diane cluck, kate bush, nina simone, roger bonair-agard, brian s. ellis, kit wallach, my brother shai, struggle, gabriel birnbaum, james tate, wislawa szymborska, moments of felt paradox, watermelon sugar, miranda july, sarah hamburger, maria walsh, rare interactions with sealions.
Poet, musician, and artist Shira Erlichman has been called “one of the most original and compelling voices in slam.” In 2007, she received the honor of being nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has been featured in The Massachusetts Review as well as on Borders Bookstore’s website, reaching over 23 million viewers. Her music will be featured in two forthcoming independent films. She is a proud member of the Whitehaus Family Record, co-founder of the thrill-quest The Bright Hearts Brigade, as well as the wildly heartening Tiny Tornadoes. In 2009, she toured the US with The Spilljoy Ensemble to standing ovations and homemade brownies. Shira has been showcased on the finals stage at both College Nationals (2005) and Adult Nationals (2007) and is “positively one of the most distinctive and gifted writers to take the slam stage.” She can’t stop dancing. She is small, she is powerful. She is big, she is vulnerable. She has published two chapbooks, one independently and another with Destructible Heart Press. She only stops dancing to sing. Favorite sounds include: symphonies, walking in the woods, pianos in small rooms, friends laughing, and gritty 60s girl-group mixtapes.
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You're makin' me blush here Shira. I just saw you and Brian on Borders.com video poetry thing and I was so excited haha. We can totally hang out I just happen to live in California for like another week and a half. I'll be in Boston mid-may and I'll be there all summer. You gonna be around? We can go on an adventure! And we could have a handshake. And drink milkshakes!
Yo lady for real last time I saw you was like barely enough time for you to read two poems and it's gotta happen again and longer in the near future. Deal?
Come hear what they R all talking about, he put up 4 new Spoke Words Poems all hot in the only way he can do it, tell me what U think, until the next time, keep making it do what U do UR way as I do the same my way...
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