Bernadette Geyer is the author of the poetry collections What Haunts Me and The Scabbard of Her Throat. She also served as the editor of My Cruel Invention: A Contemporary Poetry Anthology. Geyer’s writings have appeared in many publications online and in print, including in Bennington Review, South Carolina Review, Westerly, Oh Reader, and The MacGuffin.
Common Ground Review published an interview with me about my new poetry collection, What Haunts Me. The review featured my poem “The Long Man,” which is included in my new book. You can read the interview here!
The first review of my new poetry collection, What Haunts Me, is up at Washington Unbound. The publication also included my book in its 2025 Winter Booklist! Read the review by Serena Agusto-Cox here!
Award-winning author Leslie Pietrzyk has published an interview with me about my new poetry collection, What Haunts Me, over at her Work-in-Progress blog, where she features a regular “TBR” feature. I’m excited to share it here!
The Fall 2025 issue of Thimble Magazine includes my poem “Brief Rhapsody on Leisure (II)” alongside poems by Mary Biddinger, Sean Thomas Dougherty, and others. This poem is actually the companion piece to “Brief Rhapsody on Leisure (I)” that was published by Bennington Review in Fall 2023.
Bernadette Geyer 