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Two Reviews of Temporary Shelters

Sugar House Review published this review of Temporary Shelters by Robert Fillman.

Charles Holdefer recently reviewed my latest book Temporary Shelters for the website Exacting Clam. You can read it here.

Temporary Shelters is now available at Bookshop and Amazon.

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Grant Reads Tom Hennen and Talks About Birds on In Three Poems Podcast

I was happy to appear this week on David Bauman’s poetry podcast In Three Poems. I love the format which focuses on (as the name implies) three poems. One of mine chosen and read by Dave, one of mine read by me, and one I select by another poet–Tom Hennen’s “From a Country Overlooked.” We talk about birding (Dave’s an expert, I’m a hack), hiking, the silence of pine forests, and what all that has to do with poetry and my new book Temporary Shelters. You can listen to it at this link or find it on Spotify or Apple.

Temporary Shelters is now available at Bookshop and Amazon.

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New Poetry Video and Book Update

I’m very happy to share this new video from my upcoming book, Temporary Shelters. It was produced by Barebones Filmmakers (who happen to be my daughter and her boyfriend–both extremely talented). We did the filming earlier this year in various locations in Pennsylvania’s Poconos.

We’ll have two more videos to release probably in September when the book is officially available.

On that note, I’m also happy to share that Temporary Shelters can now be pre-ordered from Cornerstone Press (at a 20% discount). Use the scan code on the image below (or this link if that’s easier).

If you’re a reviewer or work at a journal and are interested in reviewing the book, please let me know.

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2024 Update and stuff

Well, it’s been a while. I hope your year has been free of major trouble. Here’s a sneak peek of the likely cover of my next book, coming out in 2025 from Cornerstone Press.

In the meantime, if you’re looking for something good to read, I highly recommend a new anthology, The Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia (edited by Todd and Noah Davis and and Carolyn Mahan). it pairs descriptions, habitat and lifestyle notes on key species in the region with poems about those species. Yes, I’m included (my entry is the the mayapple). Among the other poets included are David Baker, Kasey Jueds, Chase Twichell, Lee Upton, Marjorie Maddox, K.A. Hays, Michael Garrigan, Jerry Wemple, Chard deNiord, and many more.

In addition to my Rosemont poetry classes, I was happy to teach a couple of guest workshops for the online poetry journal OneArt (edited by Mark Danowsky). Those were fun, so I’ll probably do another next year.

I have a few more poems included in the Poems section of this site. I’ll continue to include more as they become available online.

Finally, like many others, I’ve left twitter for Bluesky. Find me there @grantclauser.bsky.social

that’s it.

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New Book Forthcoming

My sixth poetry collection, Temporary Shelters, will be published by Cornerstone Press of the University of Wisconsin | Steven’s Point. It’ll be a year or so until it comes out. I’ll leave updates here as it gets closer.

I also have work forthcoming in the anthology, The Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, published by the University of Georgia Press, also some literary journals including Whale Road Review, Bear Review, and Cimarron Review.