Bernadette Geyer
Encyclopedia
Bernadette K. Geyer is a poet, writer, and editor in Washington, D.C.
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. She worked for the US Fuel Cell Council, and was deputy director of Fuel Cells 2000; she served as editor-in-chief of The Word Works, and works as a freelance writer/editor in Vienna, Virginia
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Her work has appeared in Hotel Amerika, The Marlboro Review, South Dakota Review, The Midwest Quarterly, The Potomac Review, Gargoyle, 32 poems
, The Evansville Review, Elle.com, Sustainble Development International, The Montserrat Review, World Energy Review, and Marco Polo Magazine.
She read at the Poetry at Noon Series at the Library of Congress
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
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Life
She graduated from Allegheny CollegeAllegheny College
Allegheny College is a private liberal arts college located in northwestern Pennsylvania in the town of Meadville. Founded in 1815, the college has about 2,100 undergraduate students.-Early history:...
. She worked for the US Fuel Cell Council, and was deputy director of Fuel Cells 2000; she served as editor-in-chief of The Word Works, and works as a freelance writer/editor in Vienna, Virginia
Vienna, Virginia
Vienna is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, it had a population of 15,687. Significantly more people live in zip codes with the Vienna postal addresses bordered approximately by Interstate 66 on the south, Interstate 495 on the east, Route 7 to...
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Her work has appeared in Hotel Amerika, The Marlboro Review, South Dakota Review, The Midwest Quarterly, The Potomac Review, Gargoyle, 32 poems
32 poems
32 Poems Magazine is a literary magazine, founded in the American states of Maryland and Texas in 2003, that has published poems from writers around the world.-Beginning:...
, The Evansville Review, Elle.com, Sustainble Development International, The Montserrat Review, World Energy Review, and Marco Polo Magazine.
She read at the Poetry at Noon Series at the Library of Congress
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
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Awards
- finalist for the OSU Press/The Journal Award in Poetry, and the Richard Snyder Publication Prize from Ashland Press, for Dead Men
- 2000 Moving Words Competition.
Works
- "WHITE HOUSE PLUMBER, 27 YEARS"; "FACTORY, MILAN"; "THE ROSE FOREGETS 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 for Acorns", The Green Tricycle
- "CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF", La Petite Zine
- "Not Necessarily in Order", Poetry Midwest, Winter 2004
- "Thumbelina’s Mother Speaks: To the Toad’s Mother", 32 Poems, Fall 2008
Non-Fiction
- "Dorothy Parker". The Literary Encyclopedia. 27 April 2006.
- "Broken Hallelujahs, poems by Sean Thomas Dougherty", Montserrat Review
- "A Fuel Cell Primer", IAEI News