About
G. H. Mosson is the author of six collections of poetry, including Singing the Forge (Wasteland Press 2025), Family Snapshot as a Poem in Time (Finishing Line Press 2019), and two collaborative chapbooks of poetry, Simultaneous Revolutions & Heart X-rays (PM Press). He lives in Maryland.
The Midwest Book Review recommends Singing the Forge as “immersive.” The Kirkus Review calls Family Snapshot, “A profound and heartfelt meditation on the meaning of parenthood” and has recommended it as an Indie Pick. His poetry has appeared in California Quarterly, The Tampa Review, The Potomac Review, The Packington Review, Smartish Pace, Free State Review, Lines & Stars, and been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize, and once for Best of the Net.
Mosson’s commentary on poetry also has appeared widely, including “Poetics of Process: Whitman, Rich, Long Soldier, Chen,” a scholarly essay, in Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Penn State University 2025). The essay examines a poetics of process in the first edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, and additionally, across three subsequent poets. He also has published “American Poetry: Process as Vision and Social Change” in The Art of Social Critique: Painting Mirrors of Social Life (Lexington Books 2012), and reviews of poetry in Rattle, Loch Raven Review, Heavy Feather Review, JMWW Journal, Boxcar Poetry Review, Broadkill Review, and The Baltimore Review. He blogs on this Web site.
Mosson has an MA from The Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, where he focused on English meter and attended on a teaching fellowship, and MFA in poetry from New England College. His writing and literary projects have received support from The Puffin Foundation of New Jersey, The Baltimore Office of Promotion and The Arts, and a research grant from the University of Baltimore. He author’s web site is here, of course, at www.ghmosson.com.
Very importantly, if he had to choose coffee or tea, well, he would choose coffee, almost all of the time. If he had to choose coffee or ice cream, he’d still choose coffee most of the time. Recently he experimented with waking up without a morning routine, and still found coffee at the top of the wild natural agenda.
As said by Jack Gilbert, “We must admit there will be music despite everything.”
Contact
2026
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”
– Rabbi Hillel