Claudia Gary
Claudia Gary (formerly Claudia Gary-Annis) is a poet, composer, editor, and freelance writer who lives in the Washington, D.C. area. Her first full-length collection, "Humor Me," was published in 2006 by David Robert Books (see link below). Her first chapbook, "Ripples in the Fabric," was published by Somers Rocks Press (Brooklyn, N.Y.) in 1996, and a second chapbook, "Schadenfreud(e) and Other Occupational Hazards," was published in 2004 by Musings Press. Her poems have appeared in Sparrow, The Formalist, The Lyric, Orbis (U.K.), Pivot, Edge City Review, Loudoun Art Magazine (Loudoun County, Va.), Light Quarterly, and numerous other journals and anthologies.
Her musical works, which have been performed in a number of U.S. cities (see below), include chamber music and art songs based on poems by contemporaries such as Frederick Turner, Dana Gioia, Phillis Levin, Frederick Feirstein, and Marilyn Marsh; as well as settings of classics by Shakespeare, Marvell, Heine, et al. One of Claudia's art songs--a setting for soprano, violin, and cello of Shakespeare's sonnet XVIII ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?")-- appeared in issue 60 of Sparrow, the Yearbook of the Sonnet.
Along with concerts of her chamber music and art songs, Claudia Gary has given readings of her poems in locations including Boston, Newburyport, Providence, New York, Washington, D.C., and a number of cities in Virginia.
After about nine years as Senior Editor of Vietnam Magazine (until January 2009), Claudia Gary is now a freelance writer and editor. She is also a former poetry editor of Edge City Review, founding editor/publisher of Musings from Northern Virginia, and former northern regional vice president of the Poetry Society of Virginia. In the late 1990s she organized the Leesburg Poetry Exchange, a discussion/workshop led by widely esteemed poet, critic, and performer Richard Moore. In July 2007, Claudia relaunched the Leesburg Poetry Series, which she had originally founded in 1992.
See below for links to an assortment of Claudia Gary's poems (all previously published under the name Claudia Gary-Annis, which is therefore used below). Also included are links to several of her recommended Web sites.
- * Claudia Gary-Annis' full-length collection, HUMOR ME, published in January 2006 by David Robert Books, is now available from the publisher and through Amazon.com. Click here to see the cover (with a bronze medallion by sculptor Daniel Riccio), blurbs, bio, and some sample poems.
- * Click here for a few of Claudia Gary-Annis's poems published on Expansive Poetry & Music Online, an intelligent, lively, and controversial monthly web magazine.
- * Click here--and then again on the left-side menu--for another selection of Claudia's poems on The Hypertexts, a delightful website devoted to classical and contemporary poetry.
- * Still another group of Claudia Gary-Annis' poems can be seen on "Words & Pictures," thanks to Pam and Dean Blehert.
- * Here is the website of The Edge City Review, an international literary journal where Claudia Gary-Annis formerly served as poetry editor.
- * Click here to see the website of Richard Moore's Poetry Exchange--both the original group in Cambridge, Mass., and the Northern Virginia group, which Claudia Gary organized and managed during the late 1990s. While you're there, click on the link to Richard Moore's own website to read some of his amazing poems.
- * Learn more about the Poetry Society of Virginia, a fine organization based in Virginia but open to all who love poetry.
- * Click here for a look at Vietnam Magazine, a history magazine focusing on the 20th century Vietnam War and its veterans. (Please note that this magazine does not publish or review poetry.)
- * Click here to see the website of Sarah Huntington, who photographed Claudia Gary for an interview in 1994.
- * Here are a few sly literary caricatures by Mike Caplanis, who created the drawing on the cover of "SCHADENFREUD(e) And Other Occupational Hazards".
- * And now try some wild sculpture by Daniel Riccio, who created the bronze medallion on the cover of "Humor Me."
E-mail:claudiagary@att.net
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