Susan Maurer
©Patricia Carragon 2007

Susan Maurer

 Poet  * Writer * Educator  

Who is Susan Maurer?

Her latest collection Raptor Rhapsody was released by Poets Wear Prada in 2007. Her literary past, includes By the Blue Light of the Morning Glory, Linear Art. Clamshell Press did a letterpress broadside (Three Poems by Susan Maurer) as has the The Center for Book Arts (Longing). She has been in over a hundred different journals and anthologies (in ten countries) including Literary Imagination, Cross Connect, Virginia Quarterly Review, Orbis, The Unbearables' Help Yourself!, Autonomedia, and Soft Skull's Off the Cuffs.

She has been nominated for a Pushcart by four editors and has read at various venues including Barnes & Nobles Booksellers, New York Public Library and Harvard Co-op.

Other publications include Dream Addict, a chaplet from Backwords Broadsides and in2 with Mark Sonnefield published by Marymark Press, 2005.



Susan Maurer at Bowery Poetry Club in NYC, New Year's Day 2008
[Video Credit: Roxanne Hoffman, Poets Wear Prada]




Flutterbug

O you would not have noticed
The beat of your own drama was
So absorbing to you, it made you deaf
You were like Clark the clerk with the
Walkman in his ears and you heard nothing
Some crackling, some darker meat exposed
And I was gone
Into a world of colors
Fraught with wings

   10-10-04

Copyright ©2005 in2 Marymark Press 




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Susan Maurer with her good friend and fellow writer Brigid Murnaghan, long time curator of The Back Fence Sunday Afternoon Readings.
©Roxanne Hoffman 2005

Susan Maurer with good friend Brigid Murnaghan, Curator of The Back Fence Sunday Afternoon Readings

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