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  • Winter Sonnets: Still Life

    A walk in the neighborhood in winter can feel transformative, right?  Winter Still Life covers that ground and comes from my first collection of poetry, Season of Flowers and Dust (Goose River Press, ME 2007).

  • Punk Rock Song
  • Pandemic Housecleaning_1.pdf

    The poem, "Pandemic Housecleaning," was written around 2021 and first appeared in The Evening Street Review, out of California, in Vol 36, Winter 2022.

  • Winter Sonnets: First Snowfall

    Picasso said that the artist is an adult who looks at the world through the eyes of a child, and who does not delight in a first snowfall, whether in memory or recently.  This sonnet on that theme comes from my first collection of poetry, Season of Flowers and Dust (Goose River Press, ME 2007).

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About G H

Baltimore County  

G.H. Mosson is the author of two books and three chapbooks of poetry, including Family Snapshot as a Poem in Time (Finishing Line Press 2019). His poetry has appeared in The Tampa Review, The Evening Street Review, Smartish Pace, The Potomac Review, and The Hollins Critic, and been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize. He has studied poetry at The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins, where he was a teaching fellow and earned an MA, and poetry… more

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Pandemic Housekeeping and Other Poems (2020-2022)

In the last few years, I have been experimenting with different styles of poetry, which are evident in the two poems here that contain prose like elements, which feels right for a personal telling of vignettes from the intimate pandemic. 

A prior version of "Parenting During a Pandemic.” appeared in Connections: Journal of Southern Maryland as well as The Evening Street Review, which also published "Pandemic Housecleaning" and "Chorus at 4:02 A.M."

  • Parenting in a Pandemic
  • Chorus at 402 AM
  • Pandemic Housecleaning

    • Music for Instruments & Birds' View (2015 to 2020)

    These two poems comes from my manuscript in progress, Sharing the Wound, and both take place in Baltimore, Maryland.  They both arise from my tendency to look outward, while looping back to my location in it, a question as well as answer engaged by each of these poems. 

    An earlier version of "Music for Instruments" was published in Connections: Journal of Southern Maryland in 2015 and "Birds' View" appeared online in Vox Poetica in 2020.

    • Music for Instruments
    • Birds' View

    • Punk Rock Song (2015)

    This poem won the 15th Annual Erskine J. Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace magazine, their annual award, and shows my tendency toward creating stories. I actually am working on some prose right now, but this poem is in a manuscript in progress, called, Game On.  The second poem here, "Ripe," is in the same manuscript and appeared in 2014 in The Tampa Review.

    • Punk Rock Song
    • Ripe

    • Commentary on Poetry (approx. 2005-2015 & 2023-2024)

    I regularly reviewed books of poetry and published commentary on poetry from around 2005 to 2015 or so, especially on poets who have influenced me such as Adrienne Rich, Charles Simic, Tony Hoagland, Erin Beliu, and others.  These artists can be encountered here.  Literary think-pieces and reviewing are modes of creative deepening for myself and sharing of poetry's good fruit.

    My reviews and literary essays over the years have appeared in The Baltimore Review (print version, MD), The Cincinnati Review (Ohio), Rattle (CA), Boxcar Poetry Review (online, CA-based), The Broadkill Review (online, DE-based), and elsewhere.  I recently started reviewing again in 2023, and have uploaded one of those from the Loch Raven Review (MD).

    • Two Poets’ State of the Union: Adrienne Rich and Erin Belieu
    • The Potomac — Janus-Faced Optimism_ America’s Inaugural Poetry--Gregg Mosson.pdf
      This commentary piece examines America's inaugural poets from Robert Frost in 1961 through Elizabeth Alexander in 2009.  It was published in The Potomac: A Journal of Poetry and Politics.
    • 2016 Review Charles Simic’s American Noir (by G.H. Mosson) JMWW.pdf
      An essay on the poetry and life of American poet Charles Simic (published in JMWW).
    • On Tony Hoagland's Turn Up the Ocean

    • Winter Sonnets (1990s)

    These five sonnets appeared in my first book, Season of Flowers and Dust (Goose River Press, ME 2007).

    • Winter Sonnets: Still Life

      A walk in the neighborhood in winter can feel transformative, right?  Winter Still Life covers that ground and comes from my first collection of poetry, Season of Flowers and Dust (Goose River Press, ME 2007).
    • Three Winter Sonnets
    • Winter Sonnets: First Snowfall

      Picasso said that the artist is an adult who looks at the world through the eyes of a child, and who does not delight in a first snowfall, whether in memory or recently.  This sonnet on that theme comes from my first collection of poetry, Season of Flowers and Dust (Goose River Press, ME 2007).