Warren Woessner • Clear All the Rest of the Way

These are poems with the heart as their true subject. That is, they arise as honest and authentic responses to feeling rather than as illustrations of ideas, and I admire that immensely.
   • Ted Kooser - U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006

Warren Woessner’s poems ask us to see beyond mere looking, to hear beyond listening—and in so doing, they supply us with terse, carefully crafted images wonderfully suited to the challenge. Whatever their territory, it is filled with surprises!
   • Mark Vinz - Author of Late Night Calls

Woessner speaks with the authority of one who has spent his life in the world—rendering its simple, sometimes terrifying and complicated beauty by knowing the motions, gestures, and small signals only the best poets observe and give back to us.
   • Jonis Agee - Author of The River Wife

About the Author:

Warren Woessner is a poet, an attorney, and a chemist. He did his undergraduate work in chemistry at Cornell University, where he also studied creative writing with A. R. Ammons and James McConkey. He received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he co-founded Abraxas magazine and WORT-FM. His poetry has appeared in many literary reviews, environmental journals, and anthologies, including Poetry, Poetry Northwest, The Nation, and Appalachia. He has received individual poetry fellowships from the NEA and the Wisconsin Arts Board. Warren works as a biotechnology patent attorney in Minneapolis.