M. E. Silverman

Biography

M. E. Silverman has had two books of poems published, and co-edited Bloomsbury’s Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry, New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting the Holocaust, and 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium.

Published Works

The Floating Door (Glass Lyre, 2015)
Breath Before Birds Fly (ELJ, 2013)

Links to Sample Works

• Poem of the Week, “Miracle Shoes”
• Poem of the Week, “Sister Dreydel”
• Tupelo Quarterly, “Finding my Father’s Kinnor” 

Subject Matter

Childhood, Cultural Identity, Death, Environment & Climate Crisis, Family, Grief & Elegy, History, Jewishness, Loss, Love, Marriage, Mythology, Narrative, Nature, Parenting, Shoah, Genocide, Pop Culture, Mental Illness.