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“Sharon Israel’s poems are full of song and detail, movement and color. The pleasures she brings to the page are many and varied.”
Voice Lesson
Voice Lesson: Poems by Sharon Israel
“Sharon Israel’s poems are full of song and detail, movement and color. The pleasures she brings to the page are many and varied. We are as likely to find Israel’s speaker sighting owls in the Catskills or helping in her dad’s butcher shop as in the world of music implied by the title. In Voice Lesson, Israel’s urge is alchemical, so when she’s behind the counter, ‘scoop[ing] shiny brains into plastic bags,’ she is also arranging them ‘carefully like pale jewels.’ She’s after a kind of transformation and urges us, ‘Always make room/for that singing thing/inside you.'”
~Daisy Fried, author of Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice
Post Traumatic Press published this softcover book in 2017. It has 24 pages and a trim size of 6 by 9 inches. ISBN: 9780999436912.
About the Poet
Sharon Israel, a Sephardic American poet and soprano, was an early recipient of Brooklyn College’s Leonard Hecht Poetry Explication Award. She was nominated for “Best of the Net” in 2016 and won Four Lines’ 2020 winter poetry challenge. Her work has most recently appeared in Loud Coffee Press, among other journals—both print and online—and anthologies. Sharon hosts the radio show and podcast Planet Poet – Words in Space on WIOX 91.3 FM in the Catskills.
Sharon has a B.A. from Brooklyn College and an M.S. from the New School of Social Research. She was a local news reporter, feature writer, and music critic for Courier-Life publications, Women’s eNews, and the late lamented Brooklyn Phoenix. She worked as a shoe saleswoman, microbiology lab technician, and secretary, had a short stint as a municipal bond salesperson. She also worked for more than two decades as a grant writer and development director.
