Fred Gerhard’s poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including Entropy Magazine, Friends Journal, Pif Magazine, and POETiCA REViEW. He is author of Drifting to “Hello” and the chapbook, Lilacs Still Bloom in Ashburnham: Songs of Spring. He is one of the 2023 winners of the Poetry in the Pines contest for which his work is installed on the trails at the Cathedral in the Pines in Rindge, NH, and the 2024 winner of Art on the Trails, 2024. His poems have also been voiced by the actor Kirk Lawrence-Howard on YouTube.

 

He is an editor for Quabbin Quills anthologies, and Smoky Quartz – An Online Journal of Literature and Art. He is one of the founders of the New Dawn Writers’ Group where he leads monthly poetry workshops and helps host open mic nights in Ashburnham, MA. He loves to spend time in a magical Victorian house in conversations with family and friends, and a tortoise named Twyla. Visit his virtual reading room at FredGerhard.com.