Giant Moth Perishes

About Geoffrey Nutter

Geoffrey Nutter is the author of A Summer Evening (winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize) Waters Leaves & Other Poems (Winner of the 2004 Verse Press Prize) Christopher Sunset (winner of the 2011 Sheila Motton Book Award) The Rose of January (Wave Books 2013) and Cities at Dawn (Wave Books 2016). He recently traveled in China giving lectures workshops and readings as a participant in the Sun Yat-sen University Writers Residency. Geoffreys poems have been translated into Spanish French and Mandarin. Soir dété a bilingual edition of his poems translated into French by poets Molly Lou Freeman and Julien Marcland was recently published in France and a German translation of his book Waters Leaves & Other Poems will appear in 2021. He has taught poetry at Princeton Columbia University of Iowa NYU the New School and 92nd Street Y. He currently teaches Greek and Latin Classics at Queens College. He runs the Wallson Glass Poetry Seminars in New York City.