M. E. Silverman
Biography
M. E. Silverman is editor of Blue Lyra Review. His chapbook, The Breath before Birds Fly (ELJ Press, 2013), is available. His poems have appeared in over 70 journals, including: Crab Orchard Review, 32 Poems, Chicago Quarterly Review, Tapestry, The Southern Poetry Anthology, The Los Angeles Review, Mizmor L'David Anthology: The Shoah, Cloudbank, Neon, Many Mountains Moving, Pacific Review, Because I Said So Anthology, Sugar House Review, and other magazines. He was a finalist for the 2008 New Letters Poetry Award, the 2008 DeNovo Contest and the 2009 Naugatuck River Review Contest. He edited a contemporary Jewish anthology with Deborah Ager released in 2013 from Bloomsbury.
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Awards
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Winner, 2013 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Award
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Semi-Finalist, 2013 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest
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Best of the Net Nomination, “The Hard Lines of Our Bodies” (Trigger - #2, 2012)
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Best of the Net Nomination, “Rayville, LA, 1927” (Trigger - #1, 2011)
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Finalist, Standing Rock Chapbook Contest, 2012
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Rhysling Award Nomination, "28 Blackbirds at the End of the World," 2008
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James Award Nomination, "Rhyme In Haiku," 2006
2010 - present
2010 - present
Also By This Poet
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Flood (Swan Scythe Press, 2013)
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Notes to a Husband (Imaginary Friend Press, 2013)
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Lancelot (Lazy Mouse Press, 2013)
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Night Fishing (Yellow Flag Press, 2011)
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28 Blackbirds at the End of the World (Bandersnatch Books, 2010)
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Aubade (Yellow Flag Press, 2009)
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Counting Dust Devils: Early Season (Yellow Flag Press, 2009)
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