Benjamin S. Grossberg's books of poetry include My Husband Would (University of Tampa, 2020), winner of the Connecticut Book Award, and Sweet Core Orchard (University of Tampa, 2009), winner of a Lambda Literary Award. He also wrote the novel, The Spring Before Obergefell (University of Nebraska Press, 2024), which won the 2023 AWP Award Series James Alan McPherson Prize.

Other poems by Benjamin S. Grossberg in Verse Daily:
February 16, 2023:   "When You Read a Novel the Dead Would Like" "They are behind you as you sit up against..."
November 15, 2022:   "Seeing Those Damn Greasy" "day-old chickens, hunched, roasted..."
August 11, 2022:   "Ohio Mud" "As dirt it was silt-fine, soft on your forefinger..."
April 20, 2021:   "The Next World" "Three years gone, the dog will greet me there...."
June 23, 2020:   "The Finish Carpenter" "Half million, and what? Cardboard subfloors..."
April 27, 2017:   "Spring Helps" "Spring helps. The theme of back to life..."
November 7, 2011:   "The Space Traveler's Tense" "My species has one for nouns..."
February 8, 2008:   "One Last Thought" "And what if one finally can't be found? What if Leander..."
December 20, 2006:   "Time and Place" " Because I seem unable to get a handle..."
October 13, 2006:   "Stepping on the Dog" " The high squeal, the instant retraction..."

Other poems on the web by Benjamin S. Grossberg:
Two poems
Two poems
"Our Never"
Two poems
"Child Bride Dies of Internal Bleeding on her Wedding Night"
Six poems
Three poems
Two poems
Three poems
"Lucas Texts"
"The Space Traveler's Crush"

Benjamin S. Grossberg's Website.

Benjamin S. Grossberg on Twitter.

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May 3, 2024:   "Conversation in Heaven" by Suphil Lee Park
December 23, 2023:   "The Nature of Nature" by John Hoppenthaler
December 22, 2023:   "Spangle" by John A. Nieves
December 20, 2023:   "Middle of the Story" by Michael Meyerhofer
May 3, 2023:   "Focal Point" by Emma DePanise
January 7, 2023:   "Othello The Moor" by A. Van Jordan
January 6, 2023:   "Aerial View of Maze" by Benjamin S. Grossberg
January 4, 2023:   "Broken Showerhead" by Dom Witten
January 2, 2023:   "April Prayer" by Todd Davis
February 3, 2022:   "Bargaining with the Universe, I Look for Loopholes" by Ronda Piszk Broatch
February 2, 2022:   "Going Through the Motions" by Grant Clauser
February 1, 2022:   "Directions" by Paul Guest
January 31, 2022:   "Brayer" by Dan Albergotti
January 30, 2021:   "Coffin Bell" by Andrew Bode-Lang
January 28, 2021:   "Voicemail From My Mother" by Robert Lynn
January 27, 2021:   "Auld Lang Syne" by David Starkey
January 26, 2021:   "Calan Gaeaf" by John Hoppenthaler
May 16, 2020:   "Sertraline" by Emily Nason
May 15, 2020:   "Crocuses" by David Roderick
December 3, 2019:   "No One Can Tell the Bones of the Dead from the Bones of the Living" by Chelsea Dingman
December 2, 2019:   "A Sort of Art" by Dan Albergotti
December 1, 2019:   "On Seeing a Bee Drink His Nectar" by Wesley Sexton
December 8, 2014:   "Rule 30" by Ryan Vine
November 10, 2013:   "Lullaby with Bourbon" by George David Clark
June 8, 2012:   "Winter and Spring" by Randolph Thomas
March 15, 2012:   "Places that have become me" by Bob Hicok
June 11, 2010:   "Monster-Life" by Nathan Anderson
June 24, 2009:   "Resurrection Fern" by Sara Johnson
June 21, 2009:   "The Child and the Parent" by Ted Kooser
June 20, 2009:   "The Fugitive Kind" by Austin Hummell
January 18, 2009:   "Ovid in Exile" by John Hart
January 17, 2009:   "Possum Nocturne" by Doug Ramspeck
October 13, 2008:   "Over a Ballpoint" by Allan Peterson
May 15, 2008:   "A wedding night" by Randolph Thomas
May 14, 2008:   "Lost in the Heart of the Concert" by Pattiann Rogers
February 28, 2008:   "Fold, Fold" by Mary Crow
February 25, 2008:   "Anubis" by Alan Shapiro
September 19, 2007:   "Elemental: Nitrogen" by Suzanne Heyd
May 18, 2007:   "Autumn Again" by Michael Pettit
December 16, 2006:   "Sky: An Inquiry" by Leslie Ullman
April 12, 2005:  "Cardinal Virtue" by Nicky Beer
September 7, 2004:  "Tantalus" by Robert B. Shaw
March 28, 2004:  "Moving the Moon" by Deborah Bogen
September 22, 2003:  "Aubade" by Richard Foerster
September 20, 2003:  "Goodwill" by Elizabeth McLagan

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