ABOUT GEORGE DREW

GEORGE DREW was born in Mississippi and raised there and in New York State, where he currently lives. He has read widely, for example, Rochester Institute of Technology, The College of the Holy Cross, Union College, The University of Maine, and many other venues including libraries, coffee houses, bookstores, etc.

Drew is the author of two collections of poetry, Toads in a Poisoned Tank, and most recently, The Horse’s Name Was Physics, from Turning Point Press; a third, American Cool, appeared fromTamarack Editions in 2009; and a fourth, The Hand that Rounded Peter’s Dome, will be released by Turning Point in 2010.

He has published widely in such journals as Antioch Review, Atlanta Review, The Baltimore Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cutthroat, Free Lunch, The Litchfield Review, Louisiana Literature, Mississippi Review, New Millennium Writings, North American Review, Poetry Northwest, Salmagundi, and The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review. He also soon will have a group of poems appearing in The Southern Poetry Anthology, II: Mississippi (Texas Review Press), and a book review in The Texas Review. Drew has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, most recently in 2009, and is the winner of the 2003 Paumanok Poetry Award, the 2007 Stephen Dunn Poetry Award, the 2007 Baltimore Review Prize, and the 2008 South Carolina Review Poetry Prize, and is the runner-up for the 2009 Chautauqua Literary Journal Poetry Prize. He has done readings widely; upcoming is a reading as part of The Painted Word Reading Series at the University of Vermont, a reading as part of the Iota Reading Series in Arlington, VA, a reading as part of the Hyla Brook Reading Series at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, NH, and in May 2010 a reading as the Robert Fraser Distinguished Visiting Poet at Bucks County CC in PA.