SHARON ISRAEL, Sephardic American poet and soprano, was an early recipient of Brooklyn College's Leonard Hecht Poetry Explication Award, was nominated for “Best of the Net” 2016 and won Four Lines’ 2020 winter poetry challenge. Her chapbook Voice Lesson was published by Post Traumatic Press. Her work has most recently appeared in Loud Coffee Press among other journals (print and on-line) and anthologies. . Sharon hosts the radio show and podcast, Planet Poet-Words in Space, on WIOX 91.3 FM in the Catskills.  All podcast episodes are available on YouTube Music, Spotify and Apple.  Sharon is a member of the sound/poetry duo OrphicMix with composer Robert Cucinotta. Sharon has also collaborated with Cucinotta on works for voice, live instruments, and electronics and has premiered several of his works in New York.

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 for the late, lamented Brooklyn Phoenix; she worked as a shoe saleswoman, microbiology lab technician, secretary, had a short stint as a municipal bond salesperson, and worked over two decades as a grant writer and development director. 

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Lee Slonimsky interviews Sharon Israel

The wonderful poet, my friend, Lee Slonimsky, who has appeared on Planet Poet – Words in Space, graciously agreed to be guest host and interview me on the show. We’ll be talking about my chapbook, Voice Lesson published by Post Traumatic Press (www.PostTraumaticPress.org).  Lee also reads the poem “Red-Tailed Hawk on Wall Street” from his volume, Consulting with the Swifts: New and Selected Poems 1982-2016.