Grant Clauser

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Grant Clauser is the author of the books Reckless Constellations (winner of the Cider Press Review Book Award), The Magician's Handbook, Necessary Myths (winner of the Dogfish Head Poetry Prize) and The Trouble with Rivers.

Poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Cortland Review, The Literary Review, The Journal, Painted Bride Quarterly, Tar River Poetry and others.

He received his MFA from Bowling Green State University where he was a Richard Devine Fellow. He also teaches in the Rosemont Writer's studio and is a senior editor at the New York Times' Wirecutter.

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Selected Awards

• Pushcart Anthology Special Mention, 2018

• Pushcart Nominee, Bluestem Literary Journal, 2017

• Cider Press Review Book Award 2016

• Pushcart Nominee, Good Man Project, 2016

• Pushcart Nominee, Phantom Drift Literary Journal, 2016

• Pushcart Nominee, Pushcart Board, 2015

• Featured Poet and Presenter, Sharjah International Book Fair, United Arab Emirates, 2014

• Pushcart Nominee, Marathon Literary Review, 2014

• Dogfish Head Poetry Prize, 2013

• Best of the Net Nominee, Apple Valley Review, 2013

• Montgomery County Poet Laureate, 2010

• Richard Devine Poetry Fellowship, Bowling Green State University, 1992

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Selected Publications

• Reckless Constellations, Cider Press Review Books, 2018

• The Magician's Handbook, PS Books, 2017

• Necessary Myths, Broadkill River Press, 2013

• The Trouble with Rivers, Foothills Publishing, 2012

  Anthologies

• Ghost Fishing: Eco-justice Poetry

  Poets Against Hunger

  Recent Periodicals

• “What If, God Particle,” About Place Journal, 2019

• “Walt Whitman at the Armory Hospital” American Journal of Poetry, 2019

• “In Elk Country,” Blue Earth Review, 2019

• “January,” Barren Magazine, 2019

• “Elegy for a TurkeyVulture,” Bear Review, 2019

• “San Francisco Begins Construction of a Suicide Net,” The Carolina Quarterly

• “Astronomer,” Pembroke Magazine, 2019

• “Tattooist's Lament, Blue Willow,” Poetry South, 2018

• “Crime Scene,” Poet Lore, 2018

• “The Problem,” New Ohio Review, 2018

• “Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven,” Superstition Review, 2018:

• “Midnight,” Tar River Poetry, 2017

• “Difference,” Soundings East, 2017

• “Hevenkomph Road,” Gravel, 2017

• “Girl in a Basement,” Comstock Review, 2017

• “Burning Down the Carousel,” West Texas Literary Review, 2017

• “Ghost Barn, Things She Couldn't take with Her,” Cumberland River Review, 2016

• “Tumble Brook,” Kentucky Review 2016

• “Ode to Hellgrammites,” Cider Press Review, 2016

• “Catch and Release,” “A Good Remedy for a Fever,” Two Hawks Quarterly, 2016

• “Belly Full of Bees,” Good Men Project, 2016

• “Answer to Heni Cole's Green Shade,” Sou'wester, 2016

• “Sight Casting,” “To Read Dead Poets,” “Shelly at Goodwill, “ The MacGuffin, 2016

• “Holding onto an Electric Fence,” “Slant Six,” The Cape Rock, 2016

• Ode to a Half-dead Bear,” “Coat of Arms,” Gargoyle, 2017

• “Lucky,” The Journal, 2016

• “Magician Buys a Lottery Ticket,” Folio, 2016

• “Planting the Garden,” Concho River Review, 2016

• “History Lessons,” Crab Creek Review, 2016

• “Ghost Barn,” Cumberland River Review, 2016

• “Catch and Release,” Two Hawks Quarterly, 2016

• “Belly Full of Bees,” The Good Men Project, 2016

• “Sight Casting,” The MacGuffin, 2016

• “Tumble Brook,” Kentucky Review, 2016

• “Bluegill,” Southern Poetry Review, 2015

• “Autumn Madness,” Burnt District Poetry Review, 2015

• “Ode to Scrapple,” Philadelphia Stories, 2015

• “Advice for my Daughters,” One, 2015

• “Naming the Hurricane,” Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, 2015

• “The Occult Flea Market” Painted Bride Quarterly, 2015

• “To Settle Strife Among Relations,” Museum of Americana, 2015

• “2 Poems, Museum of Americana, 2015

• 2 Poems, The Superstition Review, 2015

• “Séance,” Moon City Review, 2015

• 3 Poems, The American Poetry Review, August, 2014