SHIRA ERLICHMAN. In her five years as a performance poet, Shira Erlichman has quite the list of accomplishments. She holds multiple titles as the 2004 Worcester Youth Grand Slam Champion and Worcester 2005 Grand Slam Champion; she was selected out of five hundred poets to showcase in the "Best of the Rest" at Finals at the 2005 College Nationals, was a member of the 2007 Cantab Lounge Slam Team, and this past summer, was selected out of two thousand poets to showcase on Finals Stage at the 2007 Adult Nationals. Shira recently won the Def Poetry Myspace Contest out of hundreds of contestants. She also recently received the honor of being nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the Best of the Small Presses series. She has released 2 chapbooks, one independently, and another with Destructible Heart Press.
Watch Paul’s answers to the top 3 writing questions sent in by the Borders Open-Door Poetry Community Watch
Poetry Contest with Billy Collins
2nd Borders Open-Door Poetry Contest Judge Billy Collins Reads the Winning Poems Watch
Gather & Write with Anthony Tedesco
Welcome to the world’s first glimpse at 3 new poems by 3 top poets: Billy Collins, Patricia Smith and Franz Wright. It’s: Episode 4 of Borders Open-Door Poetry. Less a sneak peek and more a premonition, a presaging of auspicious poetry en route. All are graciously due out in forthcoming books, including two books already available for precursory doting. Also available for doting: You. The writer. The writer in you. It doesn’t take a soothsayer to say: You’ll feel anew after even just a one-minute freewrite...at opendoorpoetry.gather.com.
