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    Stew­art Florsheim

    Stew­art Flor­sheim’s poet­ry has been wide­ly pub­lished in mag­a­zines and antholo­gies. He was the edi­tor of Ghosts of the Holo­caust, an anthol­o­gy of poet­ry by chil­dren of Holo­caust sur­vivors (Wayne State Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 1989). He wrote the poet­ry chap­book, The Girl Eat­ing Oys­ters (2River, 2004). In 2005, Stew­art won the Blue Light Book Award for The Short Fall From Grace (Blue Light Press, 2006). His col­lec­tion, A Split Sec­ond of Light, was pub­lished by Blue Light Press in 2011 and received an Hon­or­able Men­tion in the San Fran­cis­co Book Fes­ti­val, hon­or­ing the best books pub­lished in the Spring of 2011. Stew­art’s new col­lec­tion, Amus­ing the Angels, won the Blue Light Book Award in 2022.

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    Poet­ry
    A Prayer of Six Wings
    Owen Lewis
    Cover of The Story of Your Obstinate Survival
    Poet­ry
    The Sto­ry of Your Obsti­nate Survival
    Daniel Kha­lastchi
    Cover of Heimlich Unheimlich: a poetry and art collaboration
    Poet­ry
    Heim­lich Unheim­lich: a poet­ry and art collaboration
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    Poet­ry
    Shechi­nah at the Art Institute
    Irwin Keller
    Cover of Nothing Is for Everyone
    Poet­ry
    Noth­ing Is for Everyone
    Eden Pearl­stein
    Cover of The Living Room, Rearranged
    Poet­ry
    The Liv­ing Room, Rearranged
    Yael Grun­seit
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    Poet­ry
    Sweet Mal­i­da: Mem­o­ries of a Bene Israel Woman
    Zil­ka Joseph
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    Non­fic­tion
    Bert Mey­ers: On the Life and Work of an Amer­i­can Master
    Daniel Levin and Adele Elise Wiliams, eds.
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    Poet­ry
    Con­cen­tra­tion
    Arne Wein­gart
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    Below Zero
    Car­ol V. Davis
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    Once, This For­est Belonged to a Storm
    Austen Leah Rose
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    Amus­ing the Angels
    Stew­art Florsheim

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