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Bernadette Geyer

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BERNADETTE GEYER is a writer, editor, and translator in Berlin, Germany.

Geyer's second full-length poetry collection - What Haunts Me - is now available from April Gloaming Publishing. Her previous poetry books are The Scabbard of Her Throat (The Word Works) and What Remains (Argonne House Press).

Geyer served as the editor of My Cruel Invention: A Contemporary Poetry Anthology (Meerkat Press). Her poetry has appeared in Barrow Street, Bennington Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Oxford American, and elsewhere.

Geyer's prose -- including fiction and CNF -- has been published in AFAR Magazine, The Smart Set, Oh Reader, Westerly, The Writer, and elsewhere. ...more

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Oh Reader publishes an essay of mine in issue #23

My essay – “In Praise of Reading in Hotel Bars” – is published in issue #23 issue of Oh Reader, which hit the newsstands in March 2026.

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	My Cruel Invention: A Contemporary Poetry Anthology by Kelly Cherry, Joel Allegretti, H M Jones (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scabbard of Her Throat 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Remains 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Haunts Me 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Branding for Beginners: Why consistency is the key to creating and maintaining a brand image it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Armeno Phobia: As the Basis of Azerbaijan's State Ideology by Garnik Davtyan (Goodreads Author), Bernadette Geyer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sarkis Kotanjian (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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message 2: by Bernadette

Apr 26, 2011 05:45AM

Thanks for the tip on the CSM review. My mother-in-law actually clipped that for me. Looks like a great collection!

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Bernadette

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message 1: by Jodi Rose

Apr 20, 2011 01:40PM

Hi! I was just reading The Christian Science Monitor & I know you like to read poetry. So I thought I would share a poetry book they just reviewed in The Monitor:

The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems 1980-2010 by Marge Piercy
Published by Knopf 327 pages.

The Monitor article is called:
"A literary icon mellows: One-time radical feminist poet Marge Piercy finds peace in marriage, spiritual awakening.

Best wishes,
Jodi Beatty

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