John Philip Drury

A video in which I read “The Projectionist,” an elegy for Liam Rector that appears on pages 53-54 of The Teller’s Cage, is available on YouTube on this link: “John Philip Drury reads The Projectionist from NINE MILE 2” . The poem was originally published in the Fall 2020 issue of Nine Mile. I am grateful to the late Bob Herz for accepting it.

Here's the set list of the poems I read at the book launch for The Teller’s Cage: Poems and Imaginary Movies at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Cincinnati on January 18, 2024:

“The Poet as a Seven-Year-Old Baseball Fan”
“New Song of the South”
“Reverse Pindaric Ode for Olympic Athletes Who Don’t Win Any Medals”
“Valentine for LaWanda”
“Poised”
“The Projectionist”
“Cincinnati Haiku”
“Library in a Dresser Drawer”
“The Teller’s Cage”

(At least one poem from each of the book’s six sections.)

Lisa Ampleman conducted an interview with John Philip Drury in early January, and it now appears on the Cincinnati Review website, timed to coincide with the book launch for The Teller's Cage: Poems and Imaginary Movies at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Cincinnati on Thursday, January 18 at 7:00 pm. Here's the link to the interview: https://www.cincinnatireview.com/interviews/interview-with-john-philip-d...

On January 18, 2024, at 7:00 pm, Joseph-Beth Booksellers (2692 Madison Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45208) will host a book launch for my fifth full-length collection, THE TELLER'S CAGE: POEMS AND IMAGINARY MOVIES, which Able Muse Press will publish on January 12. Here's the link: https://www.josephbeth.com/event/john-philip-drury-discussing-and-signin...

"The Civil War Goes On," one of the "imaginary movies" in The Teller's Cage: Poems and Imaginary Movies, was featured on Verse Daily on October 26, 2023. Here's the link: http://www.versedaily.org/2023/thecivilwargoeson.shtml.

I'm thrilled that Able Muse Press will publish my fifth book of poems, The Teller's Cage, in Fall 2023! Many thanks to Alex Pepple, publisher and editor extraordinaire.

The video of the Able Muse Press poetry reading from Friday, September 17, 2021 is now on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2OQVZsab1U. I’m the first reader, followed by the amazing Rhina P. Espaillat. Unfortunately, our third poet, Gail White, had technical difficulties and could not appear, but several of us read poems of hers aloud. The Zoom event concluded with a Q&A session. I devoted my time to poems about my mother (some in her voice) from a new full-length poetry manuscript, The Teller’s Cage.