Suzanne Cleary was born and raised in Binghamton, New York, but has lived in the metropolitan New York City area for over 30 years. Her full-length poetry collections are CRUDE ANGEL and Beauty Mark (BkMk Press), Trick Pear and Keeping Time (Carnegie Mellon). Her awards include a Pushcart Prize, the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, and the John Ciardi Prize (for Beauty Mark). She teaches as core faculty in the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program of Converse College.

Other poems by Suzanne Cleary in Verse Daily:
May 9, 2014:   "Ring" "Rose gold engraved with a grain of wheat..."

Books by Suzanne Cleary:

Other poems on the web by Suzanne Cleary:
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Six poems

Suzanne Cleary's Website.

Suzanne Cleary According to Wikipedia.

About Crude Angel:

"In Suzanne Cleary's moving new book of poems, Crude Angel, the imagination enters into a tender dialogue with the world. Now the world has the last word, as wish gives way to fact, and now the imagination steps forward to;fill the landscape with what is missing. The poems seem so homely and open in the particulars used to ground their shifting perspectives that the reader can't help but be drawn in."
—Carl Dennis

"In these headlong, often hilarious, intensely pleasurable poems, Suzanne Cleary offers us Degas's brother 'twisted on [his] back in the wet grass of morning, ' serving day after day as the model for a fallen jockey, and the theremin 'played by waving one's hands // in the air surrounding [it]... / ...a song made entirely/of the world's poor materials // somehow charged.' The poet's work is humble, the poems seem to say, but she goes at it with a passion worthy of her many awkward characters. She's faithful to the world as it is, its 'poor materials, ' charging them with her humor and quixotic imagination."
—Dana Roeser