Words in Passing

E.M. Schorb is a prize-winning poet, novelist, and short story writer. As a poet, his Murderer's Day was awarded the Verna Emery Poetry Prize and published by Purdue University Press; and his collection, Time and Fevers, was the recipient of the Writer's Digest International Self-Published Award for Poetry and also an Eric Hoffer Award. Other works include 50 Poems, Hill House New York, Reflections in a Doubtful I, White Violet Press, The Journey and Related Poems, Aldrich Press, The Ideologues and Other Retrospective Poems, Aldrich Press, and The Poor Boy, 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. Schorb's novel, Paradise Square, received the Grand Prize for Fiction from the International eBook Award Foundation at the Frankfurt Book Fair. A Portable Chaos 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.

Review :
Schorb has been writing some of the best American poetry for decades. -Jim Barnes E.M. Schorb's work gives us the pleasures of musical form, while going deep, surprising us, delivering wisdom that seems hard-won. -X. J. Kennedy Schorb handles it all with an ease that is equally at home in the sonnet, the villanelle, acrostic verse and Skeltonics, all controlled by his sure sense of the well-made line. -Joseph S. Salemi To be a first-class poet requires a fluency of language, mastery of a vocabulary sufficient to express seminal, original thoughts set down with rhythm, with imagery, and with descriptive evocation that communicates flawlessly with the recipient of the poetry of verse. Such is the case with the poetry of E.M. Schorb. -The Midwest Book Review A story-teller's gift for selecting and relating the points he wishes to make, combined with a dramatist's flair for moving the points into place, make many of Schorb's poems memorable, as in "Obituary" and "Dirge for the Dead Students." -ETC., A Journal of General Semantics Winner, Poetry, Southern California Book Festival, 2023 Winner, Poetry, International Book Awards, 2023 Runner-Up, Poetry, London Book Festival, 2023 Finalist, Poetry, Next Generation Indie Book Awards, 2023 Runner-Up, Poetry, San Francisco Book Festival, 2023 Runner-Up, Poetry, New York Book Festival, 2023 Runner-Up, Poetry, Paris Book Festival Finalist, Poetry, Best Book Awards