Writing on the Wall:
Poetry by Lenore Weiss
Order The CellPhone Poems, a CD of poetry by Lenore Weiss and soundscapes by Paul Kirk
Cellphones have created new boundaries and fluid definitions between public and private space. The Cellphone Poems explores this convergence of spatial relationships.
Interlaced with multiple conversations, voices, personal stories, and outside intrusions, The Cellphone Poems build to an awareness of our new place in the world.
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You can also listen to an interview with me about The CellPhone Poems on Pacifica Radio Station KPFA.
Sh'ma Yis'rael
My new chapbook, "Sh'ma Yis'rael," is now available from Pudding House Publications with beautiful cover art by Hannah Sarvasy.
Upcoming Readings
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:30pm, reading with the Marin Poetry Center Summer Traveling Show at Dance Palace, 503 B Street in beautiful Point Reyes, CA 94956
Monday, September 14, 2009 7:30pm, feature at Priya Restaurant, 2072 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley (just off University), open mike follows
Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:00pm, come to the "Poetry Mission", 3121 16th St. between Valencia & Guerrero, in the back room of a bar called DALVA, located right next to The Roxy theater.
Links to several online published poems, essays, and broadcasts:
The Empty Nestrance, November 3rd Club, Summer 2008
Mahmoud Darwish tribute on KPFA, September 5, 2008
U.S. Soldier With Traumatic Stress Disorder Syndrome, Post Iraq from The Glass Journal, March 2008
Tell Us What You Value, editorial from The November 3rd Club, Summer 2007
The Piecework of Being a Second-Generation American Jew essay from Women in Judaism, Winter 2007
Poem in Four Mood Swings from Women in Judaism, Winter 2007
Tech Notes hybrid form from The Exquisite Corpse, #14
Invocation of the Dead from The November 3rd Club, Fall 2005
CellPhone Poem 7:About Now from Poetrybay, Winter 2005-2006
Horatio at Graveside from Convergence, Spring 2006
in a wonton from sixbrickspress, #5
Publication History
My poetry has been published with Nimrod International Literary Journal, Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, Paterson Literary Review, Exquisite Corpse, les cahiers des femmes, Copper Nickel, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Citizen32, VOX, Prism, Tiger's Eye, Red Hills Review, Blue Collar Review, Raven Chronicles, FrogPond, Praxis, Room, Androgyne, Verbum, Mosaic, The Graybook, The Louisville Review, Contemporary Women Poets, Tunnel Road, and Alpha Beat Soup , and others.
Awards / Notables
- Finalist, 2008 Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry, sponsored by Nimrod International Literary Journal
- Honorable Mention, 2008 annual poetry content, Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction
- Best Poem, 2004, Musesreview.org nominated "Passover 2004" the best poem on their site for 2004
- Finalist, 2003 Poet & Writers "California Voices" contest
- First place in 2002 "midi-category" for poetry, Bay Area Poets Coalition
- Published by Allyn and Bacon, 2001 Stranger in Paradigm, "Writing A Professional Life: Stories of Technical Communicators On and Off the Job."
- Fiction editor for the November 3rd Club
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