Rebekah Wolman reads her poem “Self-Portrait as notes for a self-portrait-as-poem” from Shō No. 5 (Summer 2024).
“Lying awake one night feeling frustrated by my prolonged attempts to write a self-portrait-as poem, I resorted to my intermittently effective insomnia cure, a migration through the alphabet. Sometimes, insomnia is productive.”
– Rebekah Wolman
Rebekah Wolman is a 2021 winner of Cultural Daily‘s Jack Grapes Poetry Prize, the 2022 winner of the Small Orange Emerging Woman Poet Honor, and a finalist for the 2023 Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in a variety of online and print journals and anthologies. A retired educator, she is based in San Francisco, California, on unceded ancestral Ramaytush Ohlone land, and reads poetry for Psaltery and Lyre. Her chapbook, What the Hollow Held, is forthcoming from Seven Kitchens Press.