old shul

Pinny Bulman is a Bronx Council on the Arts BRIO award-winning poet. He has been winner of the Poets of NYC Contest, recipient of several ADR Poetry Awards, and a finalist for the Raynes Poetry Prize. His poems have been anthologized, including in the forthcoming The Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2022 Multilingual Anthology (artepoética press, 2022) and in Korean translation for Bridging the Waters III (Korean Expatriate Literature & Cross-Cultural Communications, 2020). Additional literary publications include San Pedro River Review, great weather for MEDIA, The London Reader, Artemis, Muddy River Poetry Review, Red Paint Hill, Jewish Currents, and Poetry Quarterly, among others. Pinny was born and raised in Washington Heights, NYC, a neighborhood that continues to haunt his poetry. His "old shul" was the Washington Heights Congregation when it stood at 179th Street and Pinehurst Avenue, next to the entrance ramp of the George Washington Bridge. He currently lives in the Riverdale section of the Bronx with his wife and two children. When not writing poetry, Pinny works as a pediatric psychologist at a Montefiore integrated primary care clinic in the Bronx.