Carol Graser lives in Galway, NY. She has read her poetry at many community events including fund-raisers, anti-war rallies and as a featured reader at several poetry open mics. She has also worked with an accomplished jazz composer and a percussionist, creating performance pieces that blend music and poetry. She has initiated and hosts a new monthly poetry reading series at Saratoga's historic Caffe Lena that happens on the first Wednesday of every month. Her poetry has been published in regional journals such as Screed, Salvage and Metroland as well as in numerous national publications like Lullwater Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, The Worcester Review, The MacGuffin and Eureka Literary Magazine.

POEMS

• If Sharon Olds Had Accempted the Invitation to Read at the National Book Festival and Dine Finely with Laura Bush
• Ecology
• Speech Development
• Albany on the Anniversary of the US War Against Iraq
• To a Piece of Paper