Bernadette Geyer Explained

Bernadette K. Geyer (born June 16, 1968) is a poet, writer, translator, and editor in Berlin, Germany.

Life

She graduated from Allegheny College.^[1] She worked for the US Fuel Cell Council, and was deputy director of Fuel Cells 2000;^[2] she served as editor-in-chief of The Word Works, and works as a writer/editor/translator in Berlin, Germany.^[3]

Her writings and translations have appeared in Oxford American, The Massachusetts Review, Barrow Street, Hotel Amerika, The Marlboro Review,^[4] South Dakota Review, The Midwest Quarterly, The Potomac Review, Gargoyle, 32 poems, The Evansville Review, culture: the word on cheese, AFAR Magazine, Birmingham Poetry Review, and the 2015 Poet's Market.

She read at the Poetry at Noon Series at the Library of Congress.^[5]

Awards

• Selected by Cornelius Eady for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection imprint of The Word Works in 2012,^[6] resulting in the publication of her first full-length book, The Scabbard of Her Throat
• Recipient of a 2010 Strauss Fellowship from the Arts Council of Fairfax County.^[7]
• Finalist for the OSU Press/The Journal Award in Poetry,^[8] and the Richard Snyder Publication Prize from Ashland Press,^[9] for Dead Men
• 2000 Moving Words Competition.

Works

• "WHITE HOUSE PLUMBER, 27 YEARS"; "FACTORY, MILAN"; "THE ROSE FORGETS ITS BEAUTY"; "I BECOME LIKE PROUST"; "THE FOOT REMEMBERS ITS FAVORITE SHOE"; "THREE BIRDS", Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Volume 8, Number 3, Summer 2007
• "MY MOTHER’S THUMBS", THE INNISFREE POETRY JOURNAL, September 16, 2007
• "Lessons", American Journal of Nursing, May 2010
• "Parable of the Great Outpouring", Heron Tree, 2 February 2014
• "Not Necessarily in Order", Poetry Midwest, Winter 2004
• "Thumbelina’s Mother Speaks: To the Toad’s Mother", 32 Poems, Fall 2008
• Book: What Remains. Argonne House Press. 978-1-887641-50-0 .
• The Scabbard of Her Throat. The Word Works. .
• My Cruel Invention: A Contemporary Poetry Anthology, editor. Meerkat Press.

Non-Fiction

• "A Cheese-Lover's Guide to Berlin," culture: the word on cheese, December 2017.
• "Dorothy Parker". The Literary Encyclopedia. 27 April 2006.
• "Throwing off the Shackles of the To-Read Wish List," Submittable Blog, December 2017.
• "Broken Hallelujahs, poems by Sean Thomas Dougherty", Montserrat Review
• "A Fuel Cell Primer", IAEI News

Anthologies

• Robert Lee Brewer, ed. (2014). 2015 Poet's Market. Writer's Digest Books. .
• Rachel Hadas, ed. (2013). The Waiting Room Reader II. CavanKerry Press. .
• Deborah Ager, Bill Beverly, John Poch, eds. (2013). Old Flame: From the First 10 Years of 32 Poems Magazine. WordFarm. .
• Book: Letters to the World . Moira Richards . Rosemary Starace . Lesley Wheeler. Red Hen Press. 2008. 978-1-59709-099-5 .
• Book: Poetic Voices without Borders . Robert L. Giron. Gival Press. 2005. 978-1-928589-30-3 .
• Book: D.C. Poets Against the War. Sarah Browning. Argonne House Press. 2003. 978-1-887641-99-9.

External links

• "Author's website"
• "10 Questions for Bernadette Geyer," by Amal Zaman, The Massachusetts Review, June 2017.
• "Carpe Noctem Anthology Interview with Bernadette Geyer," by Nicole Rollender, Carpe Noctem, January 2016.
• "Your Own Voice: An Interview with Bernadette Geyer", The Writer's Center
• "Interview with Bernadette Geyer", 32 poems, February 9, 2009
• "Barn Owl Review Contributor Interview: Bernadette Geyer", Barn Owl Review
• "Lessons for Acorns", The Green Tricycle, Issue 5

Notes and References

1. Web site: Moving Words Poetry Program. commuterpage.com. 2015-04-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20120224161219/http://www.commuterpage.com/movingpoems/moving6.htm. 2012-02-24. dead.
2. Book: Sustainable Development International. 1999. ICG Pub.. 1466-4739. 2015-04-03.
3. Web site: Bernadette Geyer | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers. pw.org. 2015-04-03.
4. Web site: Marlbororeview.com. marlbororeview.com. 2015-04-03.
5. Web site: Four Poets to Open Poetry at Noon Series - News Releases (Library of Congress). loc.gov. 2015-04-03.
6. Web site: Vienna Writer Selected for Poetry Publication. 8 March 2018. Connection Newspapers Online. June 26, 2018.
7. Web site: Artist Grant Recipients, 2018-2008. Arts Council of Fairfax County. 3 July 2018.
8. Web site: The Ohio State University Press . 2019-06-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160325130937/https://ohiostatepress.org/index.htm?%2Fbooks%2Fseries%2520pages%2Fpoetry.html . 2016-03-25 . dead .
9. Web site: Ashland Poetry Press | Snyder Prize . 2009-08-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090503003746/http://www.ashland.edu/aupoetry/snyder.htm . 2009-05-03 .