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  • Burn World (poem)

    This two-page poem comes from my new book, SINGING THE FORGE, and it features a father and son navigating their day. While steering toward the harmony of routine, son and father land in shared and independent questions. If you click on the poem, it pops out and you can scroll to the second page.

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About G H

Baltimore County  

G.H. Mosson is the author of three books and three chapbooks of poetry, including Singing the Forge (David Robert Books, 2025), Family Snapshot as a Poem in Time (Finishing Line Press 2019) and two collaborative chapbooks of poetry from PM Press. 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… more

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Three New Poems

These three poems come from my new book of poetry, SINGING THE FORGE (David Robert Books, 2025), which is out now.  The collection ranges in three sections from the personal, to poems in character from various walks of life in the middle section, to the personal again.  These three poems: "Burn World," "Ghost Villa," and "Nearness of the Beloved" by Goethe (translated from the German) all come from the middle section of the book.  While these poems were published this year, the first drafts date from around 2019, 2005, and 2005-2007, respectively. 

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    • Winter Sonnets

    These nine winter sonnets come from my first book, SEASONS OF FLOWERS AND DUST (Goose River Press 2008), and are in a sort of sculptural free verse.  I enjoyed discovering and translating these scenes into sonnets, and hope you too enjoy their lush quietudes.

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    Pandemic Housekeeping and Other Poems (2020-2022)

    From around 2020 to 2004, I experimented with different styles of poetry, compared to the more traditional English-language lyric poem, such as adding open space composition, prose-like moments, and in being more directly autobiographical.  You'll find these three elements in these three poems. 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." These poems are tucked in a current manuscript in progress.

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

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

    These two poems both take place in Baltimore, Maryland. 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.

    • Music for Instruments
    • Birds' View