"Black Moon Lilith", "Where is the Center of Gravity?", "Pilgrimage in the Shape of a Prayer" & "As the Earth Does Her Dance With the Sun" by Naomi Ruth Lowinsky

A Word from the Poet: My poem “Madelyn Dunham, Passing On” won first prize in the Obama Millennium Contest. I also have won the Blue Light Poetry Chapbook Contest. My poem “The Ghost of My Father Remembers Himself Playing the ‘Moonshine’ Sonata” won the Space Prize from Synkroniciti and was nominated by them for a Pushcart Prize. My work has been widely published and has appeared or is forthcoming in Angles, Argestes, Backwards City Review, Barely South Review, Blue Lake Review, Bogg, Cadillac Cicatrix, California Quarterly, The Cape Rock, Caveat Lector, Cerasus Magazine, The Chaffin Journal, The Charles Carter, Circle Show, Compass Rose, Comstock Review, Crack the Spine, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Darkling, decomP, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Dogwood Review, Drunk Monkeys, Dying Dahlia Review, Earth’s Daughters, Eclipse, El Portal, ellipsis…literature and art, Emprise Review, Euphony, Evening Street Review, Fourth River, Freshwater, Front Porch, G.W. Review, Ginosko, Ibbetson Street Press, Ink Pantry, Into the Teeth of the Wind, Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, Juked, La Presa, Left Curve, Lindenwood Review, Magnolia Review, Mantis, Main Street Rag, Meridian Anthology Of Contemporary Poetry, Minetta Review, Monkeybicycle, Nassau Review, Oberon Poetry Magazine, Open Ceilings Magazine, Origins Journal, The Penmen Review, Phoenix Soul Collaborative Blog, The Pinch, Poem, Poydras Review, Prick of the Spindle, poetrymagazine.com, Quiddity, Qwerty, Rattle, Reed Magazine, Runes, Sanskrit, Schuylkill Valley Journal Of The Arts, Sepia Journal, Serving House Journal, Shark Reef, Ship of Fools, Sierra Nevada Review, SLAB, Slippery Elm, Sliver of Stone, Soundings East, South Dakota Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Stand, Stickman Review, Straight Forward Poetry, Sublunary, Synkroniciti, The Texas Review, Tiger’s Eye Journal, Tightrope, Verdad, Version 9, Visions International, Weber Studies, Westview, Whistling Shade, West Trestle Review, Wild Violet, Willow Review, Wrath-Bearing Tree, and in the anthologies Child of My Child, When the Muse Calls, and The Book of Now. My fifth poetry collection, Death and His Lorca, was just published by Blue Light Press.

I am a Jungian analyst in private practice in Berkeley, CA and the poetry and fiction editor of Psychological Perspectives, which is published by the Los Angeles Jung Institute.