OTHER CLIFFORD BERNIER BOOKS
IN THE PRESS
Because Clifford Bernier is a musician, his poetry naturally captivates sound on the page. Bernier explores philosophical questions. This book is a meditation seen through a spray of green ocean. With reverence to the natural world and its mysteries, we hear a poet singing through his soul.
GRACE CAVALIERI
MARYLAND POET LAUREATE
“Cliff Bernier is a lover of the earth and of her peoples; of forests and rivers; of plows and cities; of Seoul, Japan, Zimbabwe, Virginia, home. Traveler, seeker, powerfully cadenced praise-singer, he embraces the humble and earthy, the cosmic, the natural, and the human, the exotic and the modern.
JUDITH MCCOMBS
AUTHOR, THE HABIT of FIRE
These poems are a marvelous place to go. Their wings take us up. We circle over questions and glide through dreams on such a gifted journey. Yes, in Ocean Suite, Clifford Bernier travels us through a world lifted with knowing and wishing.
HIRAM LAREW
AUTHOR of PATCHY WAYS
ABOUT
Clifford Bernier’s The Silent Art won the Gival Press Poetry Award. He is also the author of Dark Berries and Earth Suite, each selected by the Montserrat Review as a Best Chapbook. He appears in The Write Blend poetry circle collection among other print and online journals and anthologies. In addition, Mr. Bernier appears on harmonica in the Portuguese Accumulated Dust world music series and is featured on the EP Post-Columbian America.
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He has been featured in readings in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Buffalo, Detroit, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and the Washington, DC area, including the Library of Congress, the Arts Club of Washington, George Washington University (where he is a member of the Washington Writer’s Collection) and the Bethesda Writer’s Center.
He has been a reader for the Washington Prize and a judge for the National Endowment for the Arts’ Poetry Out Loud recitation contest. From 2003-2008 he hosted the Poesis reading series in Arlington, Virginia and performed with the Jazzpoetry band at venues in and around Washington, DC. He has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and a Best of the Net Award. He lives with his family in Alexandria, Virginia.
