Richard Schiffman

Richard Schiffman

Broken Boy, poem, issue 54, March 2021.

I am an environmental reporter, poet and author of two biographies. My poems have appeared on the BBC, in Rattle, the New Ohio Review, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, Writer’s Almanac, This American Life in Poetry, Verse Daily and other publications. My first poetry collection “What the Dust Doesn't Know” was published in 2017 by Salmon Poetry.

Get to know Richard...

Birthdate?

5/5/1952

When did you start writing?

Since 6th grade

When and what and where did you first get published?

My High School Newspaper

What themes do you like to write about?

I am an environmental reporter and a poet who writes about themes related to nature and spirituality.

What books and/or stories have most resonated with you as an author? Why? How do these stories and their characters find expression in your work?

Poets, Walt Whitman, Mary Oliver, Rumi, Blake….

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