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"Somewhere Real," The Nation
"Ars Poetica with a Pick in Your Hand," Adroit Journal
"Love, Whose Pronoun is We, Collect Me," Northwest Review
"You on a Table in Someone Else's Hands," POETRY ​​
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Odes to Lithium​
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"Natural," PBS NewsHour's Poetry Series
"Snakes in Your Arms," BuzzFeed Reader
"Five Poems," Prelude
"Postscript to Mania," Apogee
"The Watchman," Adroit Journal
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May Everything Be This Soft and Brief
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"Two Poems," Electric Literature
"Three Poems," The Rumpus
"Two Poems," Anthropoid
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Short Story
"What is it About a Dyke at Summer Camp," Catapult
"In the Summer of Erica," WTR (Short Story Award Finalist)
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Essay
"The Bipolar Nanny Diaries," Catapult
"My Radical Instagram Sangha: A Love Letter," Catapult
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Review
"The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse," Tricycle​
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Press
Interviews & Profiles
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The VS Poetry Podcast, Poetry Foundation
Shira Erlichman: Be/Hold, PBS Articulate
Erlichman Beautifully Destigmatizes Mental Illness, Huffington Post
A Beautiful, Complicated Look at Mental Illness, GO Mag
11 Books You Should Read This September, LitHub
Rumpus Poetry Book Club, The Rumpus
30 New Queer Feminist Books, Autostraddle
Odes to Lithium Delivers Humor, Introspection, Art, Jewish Boston
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"Erlichman’s poems endeavor to take us beyond simplistic associations into beauty and chemistry, reverence and fear, astonishment and love..." – The Seattle Times
"It’s unlike any book I’ve ever read, and Shira is a champion
for writing it....so exciting and fresh, so soulful and abundant
and naked—I’m astounded by Shira’s use of language and her
generosity in telling her truth..." – Hypable
"Odes to Lithium is a remarkable book: it is beautiful, deeply perceptive, haunting, and original. It is wonderful.” —Kay Redfield Jamison, author of An Unquiet Mind"
Guest Host of The Slowdown
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Fall 2023
986: EGGSHELLS
985: Might Kindred
984: Poem at the Top of a Mountain
983: Things Haunt
982: Rain
981: Through a closed mouth the flies enter
980: Villanelle
979: The Listening World
978: And The Beautiful
977: sights and sounds on my way to you
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Summer 2023
951: I wanted music
950: from FIXER
949: Thirty-fifth Year
947: Famous
946: Crackerbell
945: The Jungle
944: Sonnet written walking under the mess some magnolia made
942: Very Large Moth
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Summer 2022
753: List of Things to Say Instead of "I'm Fine"