Verse with Verve 
Poetry Thursdays is now in its 14th year as a weekly poetry series. It’s produced and directed by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel at the Reel Café, Midtown Cinema, 250 Reily Street. For more information: (717) 909-6566.
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April 26-- Grant Clauser
Clauser is editor-in-chief for E-Gear magazine (a newsstand magazine about electronics) and editorial director for a Philadelphia-based publishing company. His poems have appeared in a various journals including the Maryland Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, the Heartland Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Cortland Poetry Review, the Seattle Review, and Philadelphia Stories.
Clauser lives in Hatfield PA where he was selected as the Montgomery County Pennsylvania Poet Laureate in 2010 by Robert Bly. He earned an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University where he was a Richard Devine Fellow.
He runs the Montco Wordshop in Lansdale, a monthly workshop for area poets, and conducts workshops for the Musehouse Writing Center in Philadelphia.
Clauser also does a TV show about bass fishing. His favorite dry fly is the Parachute Adams. His favorite nymph is a basic Hare’s Ear with a brass bead. His first book, The Trouble with Rivers, was released in January of this year.
Coming Next to Poetry Thursdays--
May 3-- Mayday! reading
May 10-- Dan Waber
May 17-- open reading
May 24-- Jack Veasey
May 31-- open reading
June 7-- open reading
June 14 --Deborah Filanowski
