About
G. H. Mosson is the author of six collections of poetry, including Singing the Forge (Wasteland Press 2025), and the chapbook-sized, Family Snapshot as a Poem in Time (Finishing Line Press 2019). The Midwest Book Review recommended Singing the Forge as “immersive.” The Kirkus Review called Family Snapshot, “A profound and heartfelt meditation on the meaning of parenthood” and recommended it as an Indie Pick.
His poetry has appeared in The Tampa Review, The Potomac Review, Smartish Pace, California Quarterly, The Packington Review, Lines & Stars, and has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize. His scholarly essay, “Poetics of Process: Whitman, Rich, Long Soldier, Chen,” came out through Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal in 2025, and examines a poetics of process in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass of Walt Whitman, and in three poets since. Over the years, he has reviewed poetry for online journals such as the Heavy Feather Review (U.S.), Loch Raven Review (Md.), Rattle (Calif.), JMWW Journal (U.S.), Boxcar Poetry Review (Calif.), Broadkill Review (De.), and The Baltimore Review (Md.). He also blogs on this Web site.
Mosson works as an attorney and lives in Maryland. He 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.
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. As said by Jack Gilbert, “We must admit there will be music despite everything.”
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“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