Meet Katherine Gekker, author of O My Charmer on Wednesday, August 12th at 6:30pm!

Katherine Gekker is the author of In Search of Warm Breathing Things (Glass Lyre Press) and O My Charmer (Dancing Girl Press).

Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Through 2025, she served as Assistant Poetry Editor for Delmarva Review. The New York Times has called Gekker’s poetry “affecting” and “elusive.” Her poetry has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net Anthologies. For several years she wrote poems at the Schar Cancer Center for patients, caregivers, and medical and administrative staff.

Gekker’s poems, collectively called “…to Cast a Shadow Again,” have been set to music by composer Eric Ewazen. Composer Carson Cooman has set a seasonal cycle of her poems, “Chasing the Moon Down,” to music.

Gekker was born in Washington, DC. She founded a commercial printing company in 1974 and sold it 31 years later. She lives with her wife in Arlington, Virginia, and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

O My Charmer

Why does the flame of attraction frizzle? "O My Charmer" traces anger, guilt, grief, and bewilderment once love falls apart.