September 10 (Self-Reflection) Hilda Raz, Grace Schulman, Alan Shapiro

Hilda Raz is the editor of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series at the University of New Mexico Press, a publisher and poetry editor of Bosque Press, the author and/or editor of fourteen books, most recently Letter from a Place I’ve Never Been: New and Collected Poems, edited by Kwame Dawes and was the first Luschei Professor and editor of Prairie Schooner. She now lives in Placitas, New Mexico. Visit Hilda’s profile in Yetzirah’s Discover Jewish Poets database.

Grace Schulman received the Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is the author of nine books of poems, including Again, the Dawn: New and Selected Poems, 1976–2022.  Her recent memoir is Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage. Among other honors are the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, five Pushcart Prizes and seven features on Poetry Daily. Visit Grace’s profile in Yetzirah’s Discover Jewish Poets database.

Alan Shapiro, has published fourteen poetry collections (most recently, Proceed to Check Out, Against Translation, Reel to Reel, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Night of the Republic, finalist for both the National Book Award and the International Griffin Prize). Winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, LA Times Book Prize, an award in literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, he is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Visit Alan’s profile in Yetzirah’s Discover Jewish Poets database.