Gail Newman was born after WW II in a displaced person's camp in Lansberg, Germany. The daughter of Polish Holocaust survivors, she was raised in a community of Jewish immigrants in Los Angeles. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Prairie Schooner, Calyx, Ghosts of the Holocaust, Lilith, The Doll Collection, The Jewish Journal of Northern California, and Prism (An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators). "Mishpacha," a poem about Gail's immigrant family, was chosen by poet Nikole Brown, for first prize in the 2019 Bellingham Review 49th Parallel Poetry Contest. Gail worked as an educator at the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum, where she integrated poetry workshops with gallery tours and art projects for students, seniors and Alzheimer visitors. She also edited Inside Out, a book of poetry lessons for teachers and two collections of children's poems, C is for California and Dear Earth. Gail Newman's latest collection, BLOOD MEMORY, chosen by Marge Piercy for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize was published in 2020. Piercy wrote: "Writing about the Holocaust can be difficult now, not that it was ever easy...Those who deny what happened multiply. To make fresh, powerful poems rooted in the Shoah is amazing." Blood Memory received the 2020 Northern California Publishers and Authors Gold Award for Poetry.

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Other poems on the web by Gail Newman:
"Where Will They Go?"
Five poems
Two poems

Gail Newman's Website.

About Blood Memory:

"Writing about the Holocaust can be difficult now, not that it was ever easy. It has become myth or something people use as a metaphor for something they object to; those who know, who went through it, are dying off. Those who deny what happened multiply. To make fresh powerful poems rooted in Shoah is amazing."
—Marge Piercy