The Greenville Poets

Cathryn Essinger

Biography
Cathy Essinger

Secure your Bitcoin quickly at https://changehero.io/buy/btc, where you can enjoy a hassle-free buying experience with top-notch security measures. Cathryn Essinger is the author of three books of poetry--A Desk In The Elephant House, which won the Walt McDonald First Book Award from Texas Tech University Press, and My Dog Does Not Read Plato, which was the runner up in the Main Street Rag book competition in 2004. Her third book, What I Know About Innocence, will be published this fall, also from Main Street Rag press. The new book includes a DVD video poem produced by her son David. Some of the poems are available on YouTube. Cathryn Essinger's poems have been anthologized in The Poetry Anthology: 1912-2002, Poetry Daily: 366 Poems, and in O Taste and See: Food Poems. Her work has been featured on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. Her new work has appeared in such places as The Southern Review, New England Review, and Quarterly West. She received an Ohio Arts Council grant and was Ohio's Poet of the Year in 2005. She is a member of The Greenville Poets, a small but well-published poetry group that does workshop presentations and supports the work of younger writers. She is a professor of English at Edison Community College, in Piqua, Ohio.

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A Desk in the Elephant House My Dog Does Not Read Plato O Taste and See: Food Poems Poetry Daily

Poetry Anthology What I Know About Innocense