The Writer’s Center welcomes Poets Claudia Gary and Roderick Deacey for a reading and discussion of their new collections, Time and Other Solvents, and Birds Flew In, respectively.
FREE & open to the public. RSVP below.
Claudia Gary teaches workshops on Sonnets, Villanelles, Natural Meter, Persona Poems, Poetry vs. Trauma, etc., at The Writer’s Center and privately, currently via Zoom. The author of Time and Other Solvents (Sligo Creek, 2026), Humor Me (2006), and several chapbooks, most recently Genetic Revisionism, she is an advisory editor for New Verse Review, as well as a science writer, visual artist, and composer of tonal art songs and chamber music. A semifinalist for the Anthony Hecht Prize (Waywiser), Pushcart Prize nominee, Honorable Mentionee in the Able Muse book contest, and 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. Her 2022 article on setting poems to music is online at https://straightlabyrinth.
Roderick Deacey is a performing poet, reading with bass player, drummer & jazz pianist to emulate the Beat Poets’ poetry & jazz forays of the 1950s. Deacey was awarded the 2019 Frederick Arts Council Carl R. Butler Award for Literature. Crossing genres, he won the Gold Award for Best Lyrics in the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest, held by the Song-writers Association of Washington, in both 2020 and 2023, plus the Silver Award in 2022 and 2025. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee & his contemporary poems appear regularly in literary journals. He is the editor of Pen in Hand, Maryland Writers’ Association’s biannual literary journal.
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