Ken Weisner reading at Downtown Writers Center

Ken Weisner is a poet, teacher, and editor living in Santa Cruz, California. He read at the Downtown Writers Center in Syracuse in March 2015.  

Weiner has published widely in national journals including The Antioch Review, Seneca Review, The Brooklyn Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, and others; recent poems have appeared in The Music Lovers Poetry Anthology from Persea Books, Sam Hamill's "Poet's Against the War" website, and on Garrison Keillor's The Writers Almanac. 

His first full length collection, The Sacred Geometry of Pedestrians, was published in 2002 by Hummingbird Press. His 2010 volume, Anything on Earth, was also published by Hummingbird.

About Weisner's most recent book, Stephen Kuusisto has said, "Poetry is the physicality of music--not in drumming, but in the mind. With Anything on Earth, Ken Weisner gives us poems conveying what is doubly good: our instruments and the ardent notes we make with them."