Let the possum go

Shira Dentz's poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, FIELD, American Letters & Commentary, jubilat, Western Humanities Review, and many other journals. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets' Prize, The Poetry Society of America's Cecil Hemley Memorial and Lyric Poem Awards, Electronic Poetry Review's Discovery Award, and Painted Bride Quarterly's Poetry Prize.