Spotlight On Writers – Anne Gruner

Spotlight On Writers

Anne Gruner

1. Where, do you hail from?

2. What is the greatest thing about the place you call home?

The high concentration of U.S. government and military officials, diplomats, politicians, and congressional staff in the Metropolitan Washington D.C. area makes this a relatively high-IQ place, filled with interesting and broadly experienced people. Virginia is also a fairly good location as far as the changing climate goes.

3. What turns you on creatively?

4. What is your favorite word, and can you use it in a poetic sentence?

I couldn’t say. I love words, especially scientific ones, and hope my readers will enjoy expanding their lexicons by looking them up.

5. What is your pet peeve?

Editors who automatically reject metered and rhyming poetry as old fashioned and unpublishable, and poems so “inaccessible” they are incomprehensible to ordinary people, who get bored quickly and dismiss them. Climate “deniers” also get under my skin.

6. What defines Anne Gruner?

I’m defined by a yearning for knowledge and understanding, whether it’s biology, chemistry, physics, history, foreign affairs, geography, geology, medicine, politics, or law. This love of knowledge tends to make my poems more didactic than most—not always a good thing.

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Anne Gruner

Anne Gruner is a Pushcart-nominated writer whose poetry has appeared in "Amsterdam Quarterly Review," "Honeyguide Literary Magazine," "Take 5ive Journal," "Beltway Poetry Quarterly," "Superpresent Magazine," "Plum Tree Tavern," "Humans of the World," "Jalmurra," "Written Tales," "Spillwords," "Topical Poetry," and "Old Mountain Press" anthologies. She is preparing her debut poetry chapbook on the changing climate. Her fiction and creative non-fiction appeared or are forthcoming in "Persimmon Tree," "Constellations: Journal of Poetry and Fiction," "Hippocampus Magazine," "Avalon Literary Review," "Silver Blade Magazine," "Chicken Soup for the Soul, "The Intelligencer," "The Cipher Brief," and "War on the Rocks."

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