Think Journal and NVR Online Reading
Nov. 13 with George David Clark, Daniel Cowper, Claudia Gary, Katherine Gordon, Timothy Kleiser, and Jennifer Reeser
I am excited to announce that Think Journal and NVR will be holding an online reading on November 13 at 6:00 pm Mountain/8:00 pm Eastern. I hope you will consider joining us for readings by George David Clark, Daniel Cowper, Claudia Gary, Katherine Gordon, Timothy Kleiser, and Jennifer Reeser. Register for free here. Many thanks to Erica Reid of Think for organizing this event and for inviting NVR to participate!
Here are the reader bios:
George David Clark is the author of Reveille (Arkansas), winner of the Miller Williams Prize, and Newly Not Eternal (LSU, 2024). His work has received honors from the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (the Meringoff Prize in Poetry), Colgate University (the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship), Narrative Magazine (the 30 Below Prize), the Sewanee Writers’ Conference (the Walter E. Dakin Fellowship), and Valparaiso University (the Lily Postdoctoral Fellowship), among others. David’s recent poems can be found in Agni, The Believer, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Since 2011, he has edited the journal, 32 Poems, and he teaches creative writing at Washington & Jefferson College and lives in Canonsburg, PA.
Daniel Cowper lives on an island off the west coast of Canada, with his wife and their two sons. His writing has appeared in publications in Canada, the USA, Ireland, and the UK. New poems are forthcoming in The Windhover and This Magazine. He is the author of a poetry chapbook, The God of Doors, which won the Frog Hollow Chapbook Contest, a book of poetry, Grotesque Tenderness, and a verse novel, Kingdom of the Clock, which is forthcoming in 2025.
Claudia Gary is a poet, science writer, visual artist, and composer of tonal songs and chamber music. She teaches workshops on Villanelle, Sonnet, Meter, “Poetry vs. Trauma,” and the science of poetry at The Writer’s Center (writer.org) and privately, currently via Zoom. Author of Humor Me (2006) and chapbooks including Genetic Revisionism (2019), she is also an advisory editor for New Verse Review. A semifinalist for the Anthony Hecht Prize (Waywiser), Honorable Mentionee in the Able Muse book contest, and three-time finalist in the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Contest, Claudia has chaired panels on Poetry and Music, Poetry and Science, and “The Sonnet in 2016,” at the West Chester University (Pa.) poetry conference; and on Poetry and Music at the Frost Farm poetry conference. Her 2022 article on setting poems to music is online at https://straightlabyrinth.info/conference.html. See also pw.org/content/claudia_gary
Katherine Gordon studied at the University of Glasgow, where she earned a Ph.D. in Scottish Literature. Her work has appeared in journals in the US and the UK; recent work can be found in Midwest Quarterly, Oakwood, Common Ground Review, The Prose Poem Project, and Thimble Literary Magazine.
Timothy Kleiser lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where he teaches philosophy and literature at Boyce College. His poetry and criticism appear in Atlanta Review, Literary Matters, The Common, National Review, Able Muse, Modern Age, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of St. Thomas, Houston.
Jennifer Reeser is the author of seven books of poetry. She is an author with Penguin Random House, London’s “Everyman’s Library” series, and Able Muse. Her poems, translations, essays and critical reviews have appeared internationally in POETRY, The Hudson Review, RATTLE, and elsewhere, with new work forthcoming in Nimrod from the University of Tulsa. She divides her time between her Gulf Coast estate and home on the Cherokee reservation in Indian Country, Oklahoma.