Though our typos lately would suggest otherwise
Bernadette Geyer. Acclaimed editor, essayist, blogger, and poet, who was kind enough to join us at our AWP 2011 Reading at the Biltmore. Not Bernadette Mayer (see below).
Bernadette Mayer. Form-bending New York poet, and the inspiration for Drunken Boat’s Bernadette Mayer Folio, coming this summer. Not Bernadette Geyer (see above).
The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica, by Bernadette Mayer
from the Poetry Foundation – Click to read the full poem
Be strong Bernadette
Nobody will ever know
I came here for a reason
Perhaps there is a life here
Of not being afraid of your own heart beating
Do not be afraid of your own heart beating

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