Cleaver Senior Poetry Editor Claire Oleson is a writer hailing from Grand Rapids Michigan. She’s a grad of Kenyon College, where she studied English and creative writing. Her work has been published by the University of Kentucky’s graduate literary journal Limestone, Siblíní Art and Literature journal, Newfound Journal, NEAT Magazine, Werkloos Magazine, and Bridge Eight Magazine, among others. She is also the 2019 winner of the Newfound Prose Prize and author of the chapbook Things From the Creek We Could Have Been. She teaches poetry through Cleaver’s Workshop series. Contact her by email. 

EMET EZELL, AUTHOR OF BETWEEN EVERY BIRD, OUR BONES SPEAKS WITH CLEAVER POETRY EDITOR CLAIRE OLESON

SHORTING THE CIRCUITS: A Short Story Workshop with Claire Oleson, October 1 — November 5, 2022

EKPHRASTIC POETRY: The Art of Words on Art, taught by Cleaver Poetry Editor Claire Oleson, October 15 — November 19, 2022

POETRY SCHOOL A Workshop in Poetic Movements taught by Cleaver Senior Poetry Editor Claire Oleson, June 4—July 9

EKPHRASTIC POETRY: The Art of Words on Art, taught by Cleaver Poetry Editor Claire Oleson, January 22 — February 26, 2022

VOICE LESSONS Identifying and Creating Perspective in Poetry, taught by Claire Oleson, October 16 – Nov 20, 2021

VOICE LESSONS Identifying and Creating Perspective in Poetry, taught by Claire Oleson, July 10 – August 14

ADDING APPETIZERS by Claire Oleson

POETIC ANATOMIES, taught by Claire Oleson | March 20 to April 24, 2021 [SOLD OUT]

POETIC ANATOMIES: Dissecting Form and Formlessness in Poetry, a workshop taught by Claire Oleson | January 16 to February 20, 2021 SOLD OUT

THE PROPULSIVE PICTURE, Image as an Engine in Poetry, a Workshop taught by Cleaver Poetry Editor Claire Oleson | September 19 to October 24, 2020 [SOLD OUT]

THE PROPULSIVE PICTURE, Image as an Engine in Poetry, a Workshop taught by Cleaver Poetry Editor Claire Oleson | July 11 to August 15, 2020 [SOLD OUT]

MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS, a memoir by Jenn Shapland, reviewed by Claire Oleson

AN INTERVIEW WITH CLAIRE OLESON, AUTHOR OF THINGS FROM THE CREEK BED WE COULD HAVE BEEN, by Andrea Caswell

BURIED ALIVE: A TO-DO LIST, poems by Carole Bernstein, reviewed by Claire Oleson

99 NAMES OF EXILE, poems by Kaveh Bassiri, reviewed by Claire Oleson

PORTRAIT OF A BODY IN WRECKAGES, poems by Meghan McClure, reviewed by Claire Oleson

TART HONEY, poems by Deborah Burnham, reviewed by Claire Oleson

BLACK GENEALOGY, poems by Kiki Petrosino, reviewed by Claire Oleson

FLOWER WARS, poems by Nico Amador, reviewed by Claire Oleson

HEMMING FLAMES, poems by Patricia Colleen Murphy, reviewed by Claire Oleson

THE LOVERS’ PHRASEBOOK, poems by Jordi Alonso, reviewed by Claire Oleson

YOU ASK ME TO TALK ABOUT THE INTERIOR, poems by Carolina Ebeid, reviewed by Claire Oleson

DISINHERITANCE, poems by John Sibley Williams, reviewed by Claire Oleson

THE DEAD IN DAYLIGHT, poems by Melody S. Gee, reviewed by Claire Oleson

EDIBLE FLOWERS, poems by Lucia Chericiu, reviewed by Claire Oleson