THE SHORT FALL FROM GRACE

<p><strong>WINNER OF THE 2005 BLUE LIGHT BOOK AWARD</strong> </p><p><br></p><p>Stewart Florsheim was born in New York City the son ofrefugees from Hitler's Germany. He has received severalawards for his poetry and has been widely published inmagazines and anthologies. He was the editor of Ghosts of theHolocaust an anthology of poetry by children of Holocaustsurvivors (Wayne State University Press 1989). He wrote thepoetry chapbook The Girl Eating Oysters (2River 2004). He alsowrites non-fiction. Stewart's day job is in the technical writingfield. He also sits on the board of directors of Compassion andChoices of Northern California an organization that helps theterminally ill make end-of-life decisions. Stewart lives in the SanFrancisco Bay Area with his wife two daughters and dog.</p><p> ~~~~~ The following poems appeared in Round Table 1986: The GirlEating Oysters The Jewish Singles Event The Best Breadin Montparnasse</p><p> The Jewish Singles Event appeared in Ghosts of the Holocaust(Wayne State University Press 1989) and in Unsettling America:Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary American Poetry (VikingPenguin 1994)</p><p> The Kitchen Sink appeared in Karamu 1993 (under the titleThe Hotel Albert 1969) and in Slipstream 19 1999</p><p> My Father's Autopsy appeared in DoubleTake 2:4 Fall 1996</p><p> Recent Findings 1996 appeared in And What Rough Beast:Poems at the End of the Century (under the title RecentFindings) (The Ashland Poetry Press 1999)</p><p> The Only Jew in Oswiecim appeared in Poetry on the Akeda asModern Midrash by Rabbi Steven Chester 1999</p><p> Exposed appeared in Rattle 14 2000</p><p>Thirst appeared in 88 A Journal of Contemporary AmericanPoetry Issue 1 December 2001 and Compassion and ChoicesMagazine Volume 4 Number 1 Spring 2005</p><p> Survival appeared in the Seatttle Review Volume XXV Number1 2002</p><p> Retribution appeared in Poetica 2003</p><p>Initiation and The Unseen appeared in Full Circle Volume1 Issue 6 2003</p><p> Mr. S and Once After Swimming appeared in The 2RiverView Winter 8.2 2004</p>