SHIRA ERLICHMAN. In her five years as a performance poet, Shira Erlichman has quite the list of accomplishments. She holds multiple titles as the 2004 Worcester Youth Grand Slam Champion and Worcester 2005 Grand Slam Champion; she was selected out of five hundred poets to showcase in the "Best of the Rest" at Finals at the 2005 College Nationals, was a member of the 2007 Cantab Lounge Slam Team, and this past summer, was selected out of two thousand poets to showcase on Finals Stage at the 2007 Adult Nationals. Shira recently won the Def Poetry Myspace Contest out of hundreds of contestants. She also recently received the honor of being nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the Best of the Small Presses series. She has released 2 chapbooks, one independently, and another with Destructible Heart Press.