Cord Moreski

Cord Moreski is a poet from the Jersey Shore. He is the author of several books, including I'll Get Back to You (Two Key Customs, 2026),  Apartment Poems (Between Shadows Press, 2022), Confined Spaces (Two Key Customs, 2022), The News Around Town (Maverick Duck Press, 2020), and Shaking Hands with Time (Indigent Press, 2018). He was the host of the popular poetry series Coffee & Words and the pandemic virtual series The Couch Poets Collective. Moreski has been previously nominated for awards, including the Best of the Net Anthology and the Asbury Park Poet Laureate (2016, 2018). In addition, Moreski was one of the original members of the NJ Poetry Renaissance, where he played an integral role in the movement’s initial development. This was later highlighted in the PBS documentary series Here’s the Story: Voices in the Garden in 2023. When he is not writing, Cord waits tables for a living, spends time in Philadelphia with his girlfriend, birdwatches in Sandy Hook, and teaches middle school children that poetry is awesome.