Grant Clauser

Learn more about Grant Clauser at uniambic.com.

Biography

Grant Clauser is the author of the several books including, Temporary Shelters (Cornerstone Press, 2025), Reckless Constellations (winner of the Cider Press Review Book Award), The Magician’s Handbook, Necessary Myths (winner of the Dogfish Head Poetry Prize) and The Trouble with Rivers. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Greensboro Review, Tar River Poetry and anthologies including Ghost Fishing and The Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia. His poem “Blessings of a Dog” won the 2023 Verse Daily Poem Prize. He received his MFA from Bowling Green State University where he was a Richard Devine Fellow. He teaches in Rosemont College’s MFA program and is also a senior editor at the New York Times/Wirecutter.

Writer’s Studio

The Writer’s Studio courses are non credit offerings affiliated with Rosemont College’s Creative Writing MFA Program. Our mission is to provide graduate students from any program, as well as other members of the broader Philadelphia writing community, with affordable access to focused writing and publishing workshops and masterclasses.

Writing Nature Poetry and Ecopoetry

Nature has long been used as setting and inspiration for poems, and as metaphors for exploring personal and social issues. Ecopoetry also uses natural world themes, but goes beyond just appreciation and experience to probe our responsibility for the environment and how our presence has impacted it. This workshop will explore how the non-human world can provide language, metaphors, and models for examining our place in the universe. We’ll look at classic and contemporary models, discuss theories and poetic practices for using nature as a subject in poetry, and work together on strategies for writing new poems.

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