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Pamela Wax

Birth Year
b. 1960
Current City
North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
Birth City
Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Genre(s)
Poetry, Nonfiction
Author Reading
Photo credit: Photo Credit: Nick Mantello

Biography

Pamela Wax is the author of Walking the Labyrinth (Main Street Rag, 2022) and the forthcoming chapbook, Starter Mothers (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have received awards from Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Paterson Literary Review, Oberon Poetry Magazine and the Robinson Jeffers Tor House and have been published in journals including Barrow Street, Pedestal, Naugatuck River Review, Connecticut River Review, Sixfold, The Poet’s Billow, The Penmen Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and Passengers Journal, among others. Pam, an ordained rabbi, facilitates online spiritual poetry writing and spiritual journeying workshops. She walks labyrinths in the Northern Berkshires of Massachusetts. 

Published Works

Walking the Labyrinth (Main Street Rag, 2022)

Links to Sample Works

Subject Matter

Aging, Art & Ekphrasis, Childhood, Cultural Identity, Death, Diaspora, Environment & Climate Crisis, Family, Friendship, Gender, Grief & Elegy, Jewish Mysticism, Jewishness, Loss, Love, Marriage, Midrash, Motherhood/Fertility, Mythology, Narrative, Nature, Politics, Reproductive Justice, Sex, Sexuality, Torah, Yiddish Language & Yidishkayt, Feminism, Mental Illness.