WORDS
NEW
Somewhere Real, The Nation
Ars Poetica with a Pick in Your Hand, Adroit
'Oumuamua, Wildness
Love, Whose Pronoun is We, Collect Me, Northwest Review
Camouflage, Winter Tangerine Review
When I Woke Up to a Woman Screaming & a Car Door Slamming, Winter Tangerine Review
You on a Table in Someone Else's Hands, POETRY
Bikin' I'm Bikin', POETRY
As One By One We Jump, Magma (print)
ODES TO LITHIUM
Snakes in Your Arms, BuzzFeed Reader
Natural,PBS NewsHour's Poetry Series
Side Effects, Brooklyn Poets
Two Poems, Perigee
Three Poems, Psychology Tomorrow
How the Jellyfish Prospered, Poetry Daily
Three Poems, Prelude
Poetry Suite, NAILED Magazine
Postscript to Mania, Apogee
Mind Over Matter, BOAAT
Perfect,The Baffler
Two Poems, The Offing
I’m Sitting With Bjork in My Bathtub,Winter Tangerine Review
The Watchman, Adroit Journal
MAY EVERYTHING BE THIS SOFT AND BRIEF
(manuscript in progress)
Two Poems, Electric Literature
Three Poems, The Rumpus
Two Poems, Drunk in a Midnight Choir
Three Poems, Anthropoid
SHORT STORY
What is it About a Dyke at Summer Camp, Catapult
In the Summer of Erica,WTR (Short Story Award Finalist)
ESSAY
The Bipolar Nanny Diaries, Catapult
My Radical Instagram Sangha: A Love Letter, Catapult
REVIEWS
The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse, Tricycle
OLDER POEMS
Two Poems, Souvenir
Two Poems, Drunk in a Midnight Choir
Before Everything, Muzzle
"Erlichman’s poems endeavor to take us beyond simplistic associations into beauty and chemistry,
reverence and fear, astonishment and love..."
– The Seattle Times
PRESS
MUSIC
SHIRA Finds Herself and Some Self-Love in "Handlebars", BlackBook
SHIRA Talks Mental Illness, Gender, and Silence: Video and Interview, BUST
15 Queer Musicians to Add to Your Summer Playlist, BUST
New Music Monday: SHIRA, Bitch Magazine
Best of NYC Emerging Artists 2016, The Deli
Interview, fields
Almost Famous, Autastraddle
What You're Listening To, Telegram
SHIRA is Electric, Project Inkblot
POETRY
The VS Poetry Podcast, Poetry Foundation
Artists & Mental Illness Interview Series, Nomadic Press
Bipolar Disorder and the Pills That Keep Us Alive, Ploughshares
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
6 New York City Poets Whose Lines Will Get You Through, Konbini
"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
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
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
Summer 2022
753: List of Things to Say Instead of "I'm Fine"