Claudia Gary teaches workshops on the Villanelle, the Sonnet, Natural Meter, Freedom With Form, Poetry vs. Trauma, etc., at The Writer’s Center (writer.org) and elsewhere. Author of Humor Me (David Robert Books, 2006) and several chapbooks—most recently Genetic Revisionism (2019)—her poems are internationally published and anthologized. She has been a semifinalist for the Anthony Hecht Prize (Waywiser), a Pushcart Prize nominee, an Honorable Mentionee in the Able Muse book contest, and a 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. She is also a health journalist, visual artist, and composer of tonal songs and chamber music. Her 2022 article on setting poems to music, based on her presentation at the 2022 ALSCW conference, is online at  https://straightlabyrinth.info/conference.html. For more information, see pw.org/content/claudia_gary. You can also follow her at @claudiagary or @claudiagarypoet.

Writers, performers and lovers of verse are invited to spend time sharing work and experiences in support of the lonely sport of writing and building a community of MWA writers. There will be a featured reader/speaker with an open mic to follow. Click here for details.

Link to register / attend: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvd--hqD8qH9wqroozp6AkVVxIPg6jxfar