Gloria Frym is Everywhere All at Once!

Written By Geoffrey Gatza

This spring, we’re thrilled to celebrate BlazeVOX [books] author Gloria Frym, whose work continues to resonate and evolve with remarkable energy. April and May are bringing a flurry of Frym-focused activity — and we are here for it! From a featured poetry publication, to a sharp new review, to a live reading in Berkeley, Gloria’s voice is ringing out in all the right places.

✨ New Poem Featured for National Poetry Month

As part of Chaudiere Books' National Poetry Month celebration, Gloria Frym shares a stunning new poem that expands her ever-curious, ever-precise poetic terrain. Posted as Day Eighteen of the month-long series, this piece reminds us why Frym’s work continually commands attention — it’s razor-sharp, expansive, and playfully self-aware.
➡️ Read Gloria Frym’s featured poem here

🌀 A Fresh Look at Lies & More Lies

rob mclennan, one of poetry’s most astute readers, dives into Frym’s latest BlazeVOX collection, Lies & More Lies, with a characteristically insightful review. He writes, “Reality. We’re not at the beginning of the beginning. Or at the middle of the beginning. We’re not at the end of the beginning. We’re at the beginning of the middle.” Which is to say — Frym’s work continues to shift the coordinates of truth, voice, and perspective. A must-read for fans and newcomers alike.
📚 Check out the full review on rob mclennan's blog

📣 Live Reading in Berkeley – May 4

Mark your calendars! Gloria Frym will be reading live alongside the incomparable Maxine Chernoff on Sunday, May 4 at 3:00 PM PDT, hosted by Poetry Flash at the Art House Gallery & Cultural Center in Berkeley. This in-person event promises an afternoon of poetic brilliance, with books available for signing, refreshments, and the full creative community experience.
And if you can’t make it in person — don’t worry! A video of the reading will be posted on the Poetry Flash YouTube channel.

🗓 Poetry Flash Reading
📍 Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley
🚇 Two blocks north of Ashby BART
📅 Sunday, May 4, 3:00 PM
🎟 Free admission, with refreshments!

From the page to the podium, Gloria Frym is blazing through this season with the kind of brilliance and clarity that reminds us why poetry matters. Pick up a copy of Lies & More Lies from BlazeVOX [books], tune in to her new work, and don’t miss the chance to hear her read live.

Stay luminous, Gloria — we’re cheering you on from every corner!

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Geoffrey Gatza

Bio Note: Geoffrey Gatza is the author of the poetry collections The House of Forgetting (2012), Apollo: A Conceptual Poem (2014), and A Dog Lost in the Brick City of Outlawed Trees (2018).

 

Divya Victor, in an article for poetryfoundation.org, said of Apollo: A Conceptual Poem “The diversity of these works echoes the complexities of the subject, but together they posit something specific, the heightened relationship between the interior self and the exterior world.”

 

Gatza’s poems have been published in anthologies, as well as magazines and journals including Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, The Pickled Body, Peach Mag, Tupelo Quarterly and various others. His play on Marcel Duchamp was staged in an art installation in Philadelphia and performed in NYC.

 

Gatza is an award-winning editor, publisher and poet. He is the driving force behind BlazeVOX, an independent press located in Buffalo, NY, specializing in innovative fictions and wide ranging fields of contemporary poetry. Geoffrey Gatza is lives in Kenmore, NY.

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