Grant Clauser is the author of five books, including Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven (winner of the Codhill Press Poetry Award) and Reckless Constellations (winner of the Cider Press Poetry Award). Poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Journal, Southern Poetry Review, Rattle, Tar River Poetry, and others. He works as an editor and teaches at Rosemont College.

Other poems by Grant Clauser in Verse Daily:
March 31, 2018:   "Vanishing Point" "When he passes his hand over the card deck..."

Books by Grant Clauser:

Other poems on the web by Grant Clauser:
Two poems
"Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven"
Two poems
"Walt Whitman in the Armory Hospital"
"Thoroughbred"
"Nova"

Grant Clauser's Website.

Grant Clauser on Twitter.

About Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven:

"These finely crafted, deeply evocative poems written with a tenderest heart, questioning mind, and an acutely observant eye, invite us to join the speaker on a trek across history, across intimate landscapes of relationships, human and animal courage, love and grief, global brokenness, and unexpected grace."
—Doris Ferleger

"Whatever the topic of his luminous poems-family, nature, childhood or fly fishing-to name a few, Grant Clauser knows that are all related. It is this understanding and wonder that undergirds these poems. Whether the characters in this book 'smash atoms/ into each other/ trying to find god' or tie flies because 'water is music/ I want to stand in,' these poems reach for the place where the known world meets the realm we sense but cannot know. Grant Clauser is a poet who knows the importance of vision, both in the sense of observing what is around us and in being attuned to the worlds to come. 'Trust me, this is the world we deserve,' Clauser says. We will be more deserving of this world if we heed these wise and luminous poems."
—Al Maginnes