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Past President & Editorial Board
George Longenecker was born in Salem. MA, about which he's written a poem. No witch jokes please! For 50 years he lived in Vermont.
George was PSOV president from 2018 through 2021, and executive secretary from 2022 to 2023. He was called to PSOV as he loves poetry and was impressed with the longevity of an organization that has been publishing and discussing poetry for over 75 years.
George likes working with the organization, and with individual poets. His favorite events have been the PoemCity readings, our PSOV summer workshops, and our PSOV readings.
In his professional life, he was a professor and chair in the Department of English, Humanities and Social Sciences at Vermont Tech, teaching English, history, geography, and government.
The land and the outdoors influence his writing. Birds and trees are woven into many of his poems. Historical places and events inspire him, as do people he knows and loves. The list of people who have inspired his writing is long, but he mentions Marge Piercy and Jane Hirshfield
George's book Star Route came out in 2018. He writes lots of poems, and gets lots of rejections, but has had work in Bryant Literary Review, Evening Street Review, yawp, Main Street Rag, Cooweescoowee, and our own Mountain Troubadour. He's found that by living long enough, and sending out enough work, he's been able to have quite a lot published. He also writes commentaries, short stories and book reviews.
George now lives in Shaler Township, PA near Pittsburgh, with his love and muse Cynthia Martin and their dog Aiko. They have a daughter Julia Martin Longenecker, who lives nearby with her husband Tim and their son Simon. George and Cynthia moved to Pennsylvania to be close to them, but dearly miss family and friends in Vermont. George is the oddball in the family, as both his wife and daughter are left-handed and were born in Vermont. They appear in many of his poems.
George was PSOV president from 2018 through 2021, and executive secretary from 2022 to 2023. He was called to PSOV as he loves poetry and was impressed with the longevity of an organization that has been publishing and discussing poetry for over 75 years.
George likes working with the organization, and with individual poets. His favorite events have been the PoemCity readings, our PSOV summer workshops, and our PSOV readings.
In his professional life, he was a professor and chair in the Department of English, Humanities and Social Sciences at Vermont Tech, teaching English, history, geography, and government.
The land and the outdoors influence his writing. Birds and trees are woven into many of his poems. Historical places and events inspire him, as do people he knows and loves. The list of people who have inspired his writing is long, but he mentions Marge Piercy and Jane Hirshfield
George's book Star Route came out in 2018. He writes lots of poems, and gets lots of rejections, but has had work in Bryant Literary Review, Evening Street Review, yawp, Main Street Rag, Cooweescoowee, and our own Mountain Troubadour. He's found that by living long enough, and sending out enough work, he's been able to have quite a lot published. He also writes commentaries, short stories and book reviews.
George now lives in Shaler Township, PA near Pittsburgh, with his love and muse Cynthia Martin and their dog Aiko. They have a daughter Julia Martin Longenecker, who lives nearby with her husband Tim and their son Simon. George and Cynthia moved to Pennsylvania to be close to them, but dearly miss family and friends in Vermont. George is the oddball in the family, as both his wife and daughter are left-handed and were born in Vermont. They appear in many of his poems.