News & Readings

I'm excited to share that my chapbook, Detail from an Illustration of Paradise , was selected by Ellen Bass for the 2025 Two Sylvias...

Engaged in the awfully vain activity of Googling myself and stumbled across two things I'd forgotten I'd written. A short essay on Door =...

The Spring before Obergefell has been named a finalist for the 37th annual Lambda Literary Awards. See the announcement here:...

"Eloquent, memorable, deftly crafted, thought-provoking, with the publication of "The Spring Before Obergefell" author Ben Grossberg has...

https://northamericanreview.org/open-space/2025/benjamin-s-grossberg/my-octopus-lover-and-i-mull-togetherness I hope you enjoy it!

Check it out! https://www.southeastreview.org/single-post/43-1-benjamin-grossberg?fbclid=IwY2xjawJX-YhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHfNy5fFXaClVwb1JZE...

Come out and say hello. 2/1/25 : Brickwalk Group Reading, 2:00 PM at Noah Webster House in West Hartford Part of the Wordhouse Reading...

Thanks to the editors of Moon City Review for nominating "Pillow Talk with My Octopus Lover": http://www.mooncityreview.com/?p=2556 And...

Thanks to Aiden Hunt for including a poem from my new collection on Philly Chapbook Review.Org . Please check it out!...

The Spring before Obergefell was named a New and Noteworthy title in the November/December 2024 issue of Poets & Writers magazine:...

https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/sneak-preview-fall-2024 Exciting stuff!

You can save 40% with code 6AF24 at nebraskapress.unl.edu . That's only $13.17 : Less than the price of a pizza! The book is especially...

From Southern Humanities Review, winter 2022. An apple tree poem. http://www.southernhumanitiesreview.com/5534-bud-break-by-benjamin-s-g...

Please tune in to hear me read with the excellent Julien Strong on Thursday, June 20, 6pm ET. Make sure to register for this free virtual...

Thanks to J.P. Dancing Bear! http://www.versedaily.org/2024/valentinesdaywithmyoctopuslover.shtml

A new Octopus poem & a poem from my new manuscript, When You Read a Novel the Dead Would Like!