Paul Z. Panish--poet, writer

A Few Poems
Paul's new book of poems, The Sounding Realm, is now available on Amazon.
Although poetry is Paul Panish’s major form, he has had a varied writing career, ranging from small-town newspaper editor (The Woodstock Week), to humor writer (Mother Goose Your Computer. Sybex Computer Books, 1984), to technical documentation writer in Silicon Valley.
His poetry has been published in literary journals, including Signal, The Formalist, War, Literature, and the Arts Journal, Poetica Magazine, The Raven’s Perch, Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, and others, going back to the 1960s
He has also created material for the stage. His translation of Euripides’ Medea was performed at the Columbia University Festival of Religious Arts; he wrote the opera libretto “Marry Up, Marry Down,” performed in San Francisco (Opera Theatre Unlimited); and has written his own material which he performed as a monologist in various parts of the country.
In 1981 Coward McCann and Geoghegan published his book Exit Visa: The Emigration of the Soviet Jews, which was a recreation of the lives and experiences of people who emigrated to the West from the Soviet Union.
Signal Magazine, 1963
The Raven's Perch, March 8th, 2025
PINES: FORT LEE, VIRGINIA
War, Literature, and the Arts Magazine,
Fall 2018
Poetica Magazine, January 2022
The Raven's Perch, January 2022
THE STONE CARVER
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine
Autumn 2022
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine
Autumn 2022
VILLANELLE FOR TWO YOUNG LOVERS
The Formalist, Fall 2004
The Raven's Perch, September 2022
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine,
Spring 2023
The Raven's Perch,
May 22, 2025
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine,
Fall 2023
The Raven's Perch, November, 2023
Smoky Blue, Fall Winter, 2023
The Raven's Perch, November, 2023
The Raven's Perch, November, 2023
EPITHALAMIUM--A WEDDING POEM IN THREE PARTS
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, #20, Spring, Summer, 2024
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, #21, Fall, Winter, 2024
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, #21, Fall, Winter, 2024
OH TAKE ME WITH YOU INTO THAT BODILESS LIGHT
The Raven's Perch, 8/23/2025
The Raven's Perch, 8/23/2025
OH POETRY--YOU LONELY STRANGE CRAFT
The Raven's Perch, 8/23/2025
Documentary Film--Paul Panish:
Poem on my Eighty-Seventh Birthday

