09 Aug Excerpt from of care as of this encounter by Claire Marie Stancek

About the Poet

photo credit Kylie Firmin

Claire Marie Stancek is a writer, editor, and educator. She is author of five poetry books, including Double Life (Omnidawn Publishing, forthcoming 2027), Operating Moon (Pinsapo, 2026), wyrd] bird (Omnidawn, 2020), Oil Spell (Omnidawn 2018) and MOUTHS (Noemi, 2017). With Daniel Benjamin, she co-edited Active Aesthetics: Contemporary Australian Poetry (Tuumba/Giramondo, 2016). With Jane Gregory and the late Lyn Hejinian, she co-founded Nion Editions, a chapbook press that she and Jane now co-edit. Claire Marie earned a B.A. from the University of Toronto and holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Philadelphia.

Related Event

Claire Marie Stancek will join poet Christina Vega-Westhoff at a reading sponsored by Blue Bag Press in conjunction with the release of her book Operating Moon (Pinsapo, 2026) at 7 p.m. on Saturday, August 15th at Fitz Books and Waffles, 1462 Main St. in Buffalo. Thom Eichelberger-Young, the publisher of Blue Bag Press, will serve host and, with Jake Sanders, provide music at the event.