Latest News and Information About American Poet Suzanne Cleary

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You can find my latest interview, this time with the fine writer Leslie Pietrzyk, HERE. The interview provides additional insight into The Odds.
On April 26, 2025, New York Quarterly books announced publishing my latest poetry book, The Odds. To view the PDF press release about the publication, click HERE.
"In Memory of the Forgotten" appears in the February 21, 2025 issue of Portside.org, under the headline "Poet Suzanne Cleary sneaks a peak into the production of art in a theocratic society."
I wish to thank the journalist Jeannette Sanderson for her wonderful article, "Peekskill Poet Suzanne Cleary Wins Prestigious Poetry Prize" about the Laura Boss award and about my poetry career. The article appears in the online Peekskill Herald, our local newspaper.
I am truly grateful to poet Jan Beatty for selecting my poetry book The Odds as winner of the 2024 Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Award.

GENERAL NEWS
On June 17, 2022 (2-4 pm, Eastern Daylight Time), I will present a poetry workshop called "The Power of Not Knowing: The Role of Surprise in Writing a Poem," via ZOOM, as part of the Tunbridge Wells Poetry Festival. For more information and to register for the event, click HERE.
Many thanks to Lightwood for publishing "To the Person at the Zoom Poetry Reading, Unmuted, Doing Her Hand Laundry, June 20, 2020" one of my latest poems.
Many thanks to The American Journal of Poetry for publishing "What You Get," one of my latest poems.
I taught a new poetry workshop, called "You Can Do It: A Poetry Workshop for Beginners and Others" at The Hudson Valley Writers' Center.
Many thanks to Keith Flynn of Asheville Poetry Review for making me a Staff Writer and for publishing (in Volume 26-27, No. 1) my review of Ernest Hilbert and Phil Memmer's latest poetry books.
Many thanks to poet Nick Laird for selecting me for the Moth Poetry Prize shortlist.
Many thanks to Mike Aleman--for selecting--and to Spokane, WA, public radio--for posting--readings of two of Suzanne's poems, "Nest" and "Cahoots."
Many thanks to The Hudson Valley Writers Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY, for posting Suzanne's pre-Covid poetry reading on YouTube.
Many thanks to Benjamin S. Grossberg, who wrote a very complimentary review of my latest book, Crude Angel, published in The Antioch Review, Spring 2019 issue.
Poet Tracy K. Smith reads Suzanne Cleary's poem "Summary of Fifteen Years" at The Slowdown, reading date August 13, 2019.
On March 31, 2019, VerseDaily featured the Crude Angel poem "I Have Never Slept with an Animal." Click here for more info.
Famed poet Grace Cavalieri writes of Crude Angel, "Anyone who can write a poem about Lawrence Welk and make it pull with truth has my vote." Click here for more info.
Crude Angel has been chosen as a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize, and I will read on April 4, 2020 at the Passaic County Community College Poetry Center, The Hamilton Club, 2nd floor, 32 Church Street, Paterson, NJ 07505.
I greatly enjoyed teaching a new poetry workshop, "Schmoozing with Your Muse," at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY. I taught this six-week workshop again, starting Monday, September 17, 2018.
My essay "Daring the Ridiculous" is lead article in Reflecting Pool: Poets and the Creative Process, published in August 2018 by Codhill Press, New Paltz, NY.
My poem "Worry Stone" appears in the Spring 2018 issue of Southern Poetry Review.
My poem "Theremin" appears in the Spring 2018 issue of Fifth Wednesday.
England and Ireland sent me good news: [A] The poem "Secret of Happiness" won the 2017 Troubador International Poetry Prize, 2nd Place, selected by judges Initiaz Dharker and Michael Symmons Roberts. [B] The poem "Truthfully" is Honorary Mention for the 2017 Fish Poetry Prize, selected by Jo Shapcott, with publication in Fish Poetry Anthology. [C] The poem "I Have Never Slept with an Animal" won the 2017 Gregory O'Donohue International Poetry Prize, 3rd Place, selected by Mary Noonan, with publication in Southward.
My poem "Nest" appears in the Fall 2017 issue of New Ohio Review.

NEWS ABOUT READINGS
On April 13, 2019, I read in the Hudson Highland Regional Poets series launch at the Desmond-Fish Library in Garrison, NY.
On March 21, 2019, I read in New York City at the KGB Bar.
On March 21, 2017, I read my poetry at the Kent & Sussex Poetry Society, Tunbridge Wells, England, the oldest continuously operating poetry society in the United Kingdom.
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