Words in Passing

<p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>E.M. Schorb is a prize-winning poet novelist and short story writer. As a poet his <em>Murderer's Day</em> was awarded the Verna Emery Poetry Prize and published by Purdue University Press; and his collection <em>Time and Fevers</em> was the recipient of the Writer's Digest International Self-Published Award for Poetry and also an Eric Hoffer Award. Other works include <em>50 Poems</em> Hill House New York <em>Reflections in a Doubtful I </em>White Violet Press <em>The Journey and Related Poems </em>Aldrich Press <em>The Ideologues and Other Retrospective Poems </em>Aldrich Press and <em>The Poor Boy </em>Dragon's Teeth Press Living Poets Series. The title poem The Poor Boy was awarded the International Keats Poetry Prize by London Literary Editions Ltd. judged by Howard Sergeant.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Schorb's novel <em>Paradise Square </em>received the Grand Prize for Fiction from the International eBook Award Foundation at the Frankfurt Book Fair.  <em>A Portable Chaos</em> was the First Prize Winner of the Eric Hoffer Award for Fiction. But Schorb maintains that he is first and foremost a poet and his poetry has appeared in numerous publications here and abroad. </p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>