WINNER OF THE 2005 BLUE LIGHT BOOK AWARD ~~~ Stewart Florsheim was
born in New York City, the son of refugees from Hitler's Germany.
He has received several awards for his poetry and 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). He also writes
non-fiction. Stewart's day job is in the technical writing field.
He also sits on the board of directors of Compassion and Choices of
Northern California, an organization that helps the terminally ill
make end-of-life decisions. Stewart lives in the San Francisco Bay
Area with his wife, two daughters, and dog. ~~~~~ The following
poems appeared in Round Table, 1986: "The Girl Eating Oysters,"
"The Jewish Singles Event," "The Best Bread in Montparnasse" "The
Jewish Singles Event" appeared in Ghosts of the Holocaust (Wayne
State University Press, 1989) and in Unsettling America: Race and
Ethnicity in Contemporary American Poetry (Viking Penguin, 1994)
"The Kitchen Sink" appeared in Karamu, 1993 (under the title, "The
Hotel Albert, 1969") and in Slipstream 19, 1999 "My Father's
Autopsy" appeared in DoubleTake, 2: 4, Fall, 1996 "Recent Findings,
1996" appeared in And What Rough Beast: Poems at the End of the
Century (under the title, "Recent Findings") (The Ashland Poetry
Press, 1999) "The Only Jew in Oswiecim" appeared in Poetry on the
Akeda as Modern Midrash by Rabbi Steven Chester, 1999 "Exposed"
appeared in Rattle 14, 2000 "Thirst" appeared in 88, A Journal of
Contemporary American Poetry, Issue 1, December, 2001 and
Compassionand Choices Magazine, Volume 4, Number 1, Spring, 2005
"Survival" appeared in the Seatttle Review Volume XXV, Number 1,
2002 "Retribution" appeared in Poetica, 2003 "Initiation" and "The
Unseen" appeared in Full Circle, Volume 1, Issue 6, 2003 "Mr. S"
and "Once, After Swimming" appeared in The 2River View, Winter 8.2,
2004
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