Michael Shorb passed on August 8, 2012 from a rare form of cancer. His poems appeared in over 100 magazines and anthologies, including The Sun, The Nation, Michigan Quarterly Review, Queen’s Quarterly, Commonweal, Rattle, Urthona, Underground Voices, The Great American Poetry Show, and European Judaism. His collection, Whale Walkers Morning, will appear in Winter 2013 from Shabda Press.