Alan Walowitz
Retired School Administrator and teacher of English and education
Biography
Alan Walowitz is a Contributing Editor at Verse-Virtual, an Online Community Journal of Poetry. He’s studied with poets Stephen Stepanchev, Colette Inez, Carol Muske, James Reiss, George Chambers, C.K. Williams, and Estha Weiner. His chapbook Exactly Like Love comes from Osedax Press. The Story of the Milkman and Other Poems is available from Truth Serum Press. From Arroyo Seco Press: In the Muddle of the Night, written with poet Betsy Mars. The chapbook, The Poems of the Air, is from Red Wolf Editions, free for downloading. His poems have been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His poem, “Chinese Sequoia” was nominated for the Orison Prize. “The Story of the Milkman,” and its impact on a New York family, was the focus of a feature article in The New York Times, on April 16, 2017.
What is the relationship between Judaism and/or Jewish culture and your poetry?
Though I’m not a religious man by any definition, I am a Jew and am acutely aware of the impact of my Jewishness on me, on the ways I think, behave, and write. I have written many poems that appear on Ritualwell, which curates poems and rituals about and in support of the Jewish experience. In addition, several of my poems have been used as part of services in my own synagogue and other synagogues around the country.
Published Works
The Poems of the Air (Red Wolf Editions, 2023)
Exactly Like Love (Osedax Press, 2016)
The Story of the Milkman and Other Poems (Truth Serum Press, 2019)
Links to Sample Works
- Silver Birch Press, “Remembering Ralph Edwards”
- Ritual Well, “For Rosh Hashanah”
- Ritual Well, “Ashamnu”
