Selected Publications

I used to write poetry. 

Individual Poems + Translations

• “Untitled,” (Translation of Boris Gerus from Hebrew), Tablet, May 2013.

• “Most People are Bad,” Tablet, September 2012.

• “3rd Wave’s a Charm” and “What We Mean by Ambition,” Drunken Boat, Fall 2012.

• “Comment on Miracles” featured on the front page of Ink Node, October 2011.

• “What You’ve Heard, It’s All True,” Pebble Lake Review, December 2010.

• “Believable Stutter,” and “Birthday Poem,” La Petite Zine, Spring 2010.

• “Re: You are a tsunami of feeling,” Euphony, Winter 2009.

• “Slippery Place,” The Collagist, December 2009.

Anthologies

• Featured in Another and Another: An Anthology from the Poem-a-Day Grind, Bull City Press, 2012.

Now I work on scholarship.

Manuscripts in Preparation

• Talpaz, Sheera. Resistance & Reluctance: On the “National Poets” of Palestine/Israel.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Talpaz, Sheera. “Yehuda Amichai, the Unlikely National Poet.” Prooftexts, vol. 38, no. 3, 2021, pp. 623–47. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2979/prooftexts.38.3.06.

Other Articles

• Talpaz, Sheera. “Nostalgic Utopias in Zionist Literature.” The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and Nation, edited by Anuradha Dingwaney Needham and Sheera Talpaz, Routledge, 2025, pp. 46-59.

• Talpaz, Sheera. “Palestine/Israel and the Dynamics of Suspicion.” Suspicion, cluster of Post45: Contemporaries, edited by Eleanor Russell, 2024.

Edited Volumes

• Talpaz, Sheera, and Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, eds. The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation. Routledge, 2025. 

Book Reviews

• Talpaz, Sheera. “On the Scale of Conflict, Its Crimes and Traumas.” Review of Minor Detail, by Adania Shibli, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette. Reading in Translation, Sept. 2020.

• Talpaz, Sheera. Review of Youth Encounter Programs in Israel: Pedagogy, Identity, & Social Change, by Karen Ross. AJS Review: The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies, vol. 43 no. 1, 2019, p. 260-262. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2019.0041.

• Talpaz, Sheera. Review of Wolf Face, by Matt Hart. Mantis, Spring 2012.