Connie Post

Poet

Livermore, CA
California US
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Author's Bio

I served as Poet Laureate of Livermore, California from 2005 to 2009. I hosted a popular reading series in the San Francisco Bay Area in Crockett, California (The Valona Deli Second Sunday Poetry Series from 2009 to 2018) My Chapbook "And When the Sun Drops"(Finishing Line Press 2012) received the Aurorean Editors Chapbook Choice Award for Fall 2012. My first full length book "Floodwater" was released in January 2014 by Glass Lyre Press."Floodwater" earned the Glass Lyre Press Lyrebird Award. My second full length collection "Prime Meridian" was released in January 2020 by Glass Lyre Press, and was a finalist in the 2020 Best Book Awards for Poetry, the 2021 International Poetry Awards,  2020 American Fiction Award (poetry) and was named a distinguished favorite for poetry in the 2022 Independent Book Awards. In 2023, my third full length collection "Between Twilight" was released by New York Quarterly Books and also a Chapbook "Broken Metronome" was also released by Glass Lyre Press.  Broken Metronome was named a distinguished favorite in the NYC Big Book awards for 2023

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology (Story Street Press, 2020)
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Alongside we Travel - Contemporary Poets on Autism (NYQ Books, 2019)
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Collateral Damage (Glass Lyre Press, 2019)
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Carrying the Branch (Glass Lyre Press, 2017)
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Truth to Power Writers Respond To The Rhetoric Of Hate And Fear (Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, 2017)
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Weatherings (FutureCycle Press, 2015)
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First Water Best of Pirene's Fountain (Glass Lyre Press, 2013)
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A Bird As Black as the Sun (Green Poet Press, 2012)
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When the muse calls (Pomogranate Press, 2010)
Books:
Between Twilight (NYQ Books, 2023)
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Broken Metronome (Glass Lyre Press, 2023)
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Prime Meridian (Glass Lyre Press, 2020)
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Floodwater (Glass Lyre Press, 2014)
Chapbooks:
Broken Metronome (Glass Lyre Press, 2023)
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And When the Sun Drops (Finishing Line Press, 2012)
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Trip Wires (Finishing Line Press, 2010)
Journals: , , ,
American Journal of Poetry
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Barnwood International Poetry Magazine
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Bloodroot Literary Magazine
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Blue Fifth Review
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Caesura
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California State Poetry Quarterly
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Carquinez Poetry Review
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Comstock Review
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Disquieting Muses
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Iodine Poetry Journal
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Kalliope
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Karamu
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Midwest Poetry Review
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Monterey Poetry Review
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Prick of the Spindle
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River Sedge
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Spillway Magazine
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Spoon River Poetry Review
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The Dirty Napkin
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The Great American Poetry Show
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The Lindenwood Review
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The Toronto Quaterly
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Third Wednesday
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Tule Review
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Untitled Country Review
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Verse Daily
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Wild Goose Poetry Review
Prizes won: 

Winner of the 2016 Crab Creek Poetry Review Prize. 2018 Pirene's Fountain Liakoura Award,  First Place 2017 Prick of the Spindle Open Poetry Competition. The Caesura Poetry Award, and the Dirty Napkin Cover Prize.  Second Prize in the 2019 Atticus Review Poetry Awards and the 2011 Jack Kerouac Poetry Award.   

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Tony Hoagland, Diane Suess, Grant Clauser, Kay Ryan,

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Born in: 
Raised in: 
Livermore, CA
California
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Last update: Oct 08, 2023