Poetry. Jewish Studies. These poems, rooted in details of personal and family life and their connection to this century's history, grow out of a "conscious act not only to look at what demanded my attention, but to look at it from the point of view of a Jewish woman."

Author City: MALIBU, CA USA

Florence Weinberger has published four books of poetry, The Invisible Telling Its Shape (Fithian Press, 1997), BREATHING LIKE A JEW (Chicory Blue Press, 1997), Carnal Fragrance (Red Hen Press, 2004), and SACRED GRAFFITI (Tebot Bach, 2011). Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, her poetry has been published in numerous literary magazines, including Another Chicago Magazine, Antietam Review, The Comstock Review, The Pedestal, Solo, Rattle, SPILLWAY, and anthologies such as Family Reunion: Poems About Parenting Grown Children, So Luminous the Wildflowers, Images from the Holocaust, and Lifecycles: Jewish Women on Biblical Themes in Contemporary Life. Among awards are first prizes in the Poetry/LA Bicentennial, Sculpture Gardens Review, Mississippi Valley, Red Dancefloor and the dA Center for the Arts poetry contests.