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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.

GULLS

Signal Magazine, 1963

DOWN TO THE SEA

The Raven's Perch, March 8th, 2025

PINES: FORT LEE, VIRGINIA
War, Literature, and the Arts Magazine,

Fall 2018

SILENCE AT SINAI

Poetica Magazine, January 2022

CLING TO YOUR MIRACLE

The Raven's Perch, January 2022

THE STONE CARVER
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine

Autumn 2022

POEM ON MY EIGHTY-SEVENTH

BIRTHDAY—A CONFESSION

Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine

Autumn 2022

VILLANELLE FOR TWO YOUNG LOVERS

The Formalist, Fall 2004

KING SAUL'S TRAGIC END

The Raven's Perch, September 2022

THE SACRIFICE

Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, 

Spring 2023

KING DAVID YOUNG AND OLD

The Raven's Perch, 

May 22, 2025

MAIL CALL

Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, 

Fall 2023

THE MASTER CLASS

The Raven's Perch, November, 2023

YOU NEWLY BORN

Smoky Blue, Fall Winter, 2023

 THE PREGNANT GIRL IN THE PARK

The Raven's Perch, November, 2023

THE HATCHED HAWK

The Raven's Perch, November, 2023

EPITHALAMIUM--A WEDDING POEM IN THREE PARTS

Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, #20, Spring, Summer, 2024

OH WAKE ME WITH POEMS...

Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, #21, Fall, Winter, 2024

MAD SHELLEY'S DEATH

Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, #21, Fall, Winter, 2024

A NOD IN PASSING

OH TAKE ME WITH YOU INTO THAT BODILESS LIGHT

The Raven's Perch, 8/23/2025

ENDURE

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

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