Paul Rabinowitz
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Birth City, State, Country
Biography
Paul Rabinowitz is an author, screenwriter, photographer, and founder of ARTS By The People. His work is often intertextual, and frequently thematically centered upon the process of art-making through varied forms and pathways. He is the author of 6 books including The Clay Urn; Limited Light; truth, love and the lines in between; Grand Street, Revisited; Syncopated Rhythms and Confluence.
Rabinowitz’s photography, prose and poetry appear in magazines and journals including The Sun Magazine, New World Writing, Arcturus-Chicago Review Of Books, Evening Street Press, The Montreal Review, Stone Poetry Quarterly, Talking River Review, and elsewhere. Rabinowitz was a featured artist in Nailed Magazine in 2020, Mud Season Review in 2022, Apricity Press in 2023, Rappahannock Review in 2024 and The Woven Tale Press in 2025. His photo series Limited Light was nominated for Best of the Net in 2021. Rabinowitz’s poems and fiction are the inspiration for 8 award winning experimental films, including Best Experimental Short at Cannes, Venice Independent Film Festival, Oregon Short Film Festival, Jersey Shore Film Festival, Florence Indie Film Festival and Paris Film Festival. Rabinowitz has produced mixed media performances and poetry films that have appeared on stages and in theaters throughout the world. He was nominated for the Maria Mazziotti Gillan Literary Service Award for outstanding service in the literary arts. He is the founder of The Platform, a monthly literary series in New Jersey, and Platform Review, a journal of voices from The Garden State. Rabinowitz’s videos, photography and poems appeared in a multimedia solo exhibit called Retrospective With Reading Glasses, at CCM Gallery, Randolph, NJ, in 2022 and TWINING at Canal Studios, Lambertville, NJ in 2026
What is the relationship between Judaism and/or Jewish culture and your poetry?
Nothing directly, but I am always searching for an existential truth.
Published Works
Confluence (Guernica Editions, 2027)
Syncopated Rhythms (Finishing Line Press, 2025)
Grand Street, Revisited (Finishing Line Press, 2023)
truth, love and the lines in between (Finishing Line Press, 2023)
THE CLAY URN (Main Street Rag, 2020)
LIMITED LIGHT (11th Street Press, 2019)
Author Site
Links to Sample Works
October Hill Magazine, “The Walk”
La Piccioletta Barca, “Gift Wrapped”
Main Street Rag, “Yahrzeit”
Video Reading
Current Title
Education
Tulane University (Undergraduate)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Graduate)