Paula Goldman's, The Great Canopy, won the Gival Press Poetry award, and was honorable mention for the Independent Booksellers' Award. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Visions International, Halcyone Literary Quarterly, Santa Fe Literary Review, Dash, Oyez Review, Slant, Calyx, Passager, Ekphrasis, Rattle, Prairie Schooner, Manhattanville Review, Cream City Review, Comstock Review, Harvard Review, The North American Review, Poet Lore, Poet Miscellany, Hawaii Pacific Review, Cæsura, Briar Cliff Review and other magazines. Her poems have appeared in Boomer Girls published by the University of Iowa Press, The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry published by New Rivers Press and most recently, Conversation Pieces published by Knopf. She was first prize winner in INKWELL's (Manhattanville College) poetry competition and the Louisiana Literature Award for poetry. She holds an MA degree in Journalism from Marquette University and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Former reporter for The Milwaukee Journal, she served as a docent and lecturer at the Milwaukee Art Museum for 25 years . She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2017 and for 2021. She lives in Milwaukee, WI with her husband, Allan, married 54 years having two grown children and three grandchildren. A new book 'Late Love' was published by Kelsay Books February, 2020.

Books by Paula Goldman:

Other poems on the web by Paula Goldman:
"Bonnard's Wife's Ashes'"
Four poems

About Late Love:

"In so many ways, these terrific poems are, as she says in one poem, 'the grasp of the sea / close and eager, the sun / a Monet / painting.' And that skillful grasp, like Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, holds us securely and initiates a dialogue with artists, writers, mythic and literary characters like Othello and Aphrodite, and the poet's personal memory. With poems like "The Girl in the Stone Creek Coffee Shop" after Ezra Pound, we can experience not simple influence but creative extension, much like a jazz artist riffing off a standard, and with poems like 'Van Gogh's Prayer' we enter into the amazing convergence of two hearts ('Let the crows fly from my heart,' the poem begins), the artist and the poet. This is a world as changeable as that sea she attempts to grasp. What we have, in sum, is a wonderful account of 'how we ate, how we thrived. How / the blood flowed into our lives.'"
—Richard Jackson

"'To see the light, one has to see the dark,' Goldman says in 'Golden Autumn.' And indeed, to appreciate the high art of literature and painting, one has to encounter the daily human existence art both heightens and transcends. In these elegant and intelligent poems, the quotidian collides with the highbrow in unpredictable ways that allow us to see both worlds with fresh eyes. It is a fine book filled with yearning, restlessness, acceptance, and hope all folded into one rich batter. I recommend it."
—Mark Cox

"Paula Goldman's poised and mesmerizing Late Love is intensely verbal; its texture is woven from both short and long lines and sentences. It's also both intensely personal and cultural, fusing the incidents and trials of daily and domestic life with the palpable presence of literature and art into a seamless whole, alternating between two poles: 'To see the light, one has to see the dark.'"
—John Koethe