Clay Moldenhauer

Clay Moldenhauer (Col ’63), with his poem “Make Fire”, was the runner-up in the 2019 Charlottesville Jefferson-Madison Region Library and WriterHouse Poetry Contest, judged by Poet Laureate of Virginia, Henry Hart. Moldenhauer, who lives in Charlottesville, works on the staff of WriterHouse and is a meditation facilitator and workshop presenter at Unity Church of Charlottesville.

He serves as webmaster of the public service site fivelements.net; was the 2015 American Poet-of-Reference, with the poem “The Flower Sutra”, for the 2015 Hindu Lit for Life Annual Celebration “Lotus Leaves, Water Words”; 2015 instigator of Charlottesville’s first study group of “Laudato Si”, Pope Francis’s world introduction of the concept of integral ecology, at Church of the Incarnation; 2007-2010 Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail’s volunteer Buddhist meditation instructor; 1995 student participant in Curry’s first graduate course in webbing: Academic Uses of the World-Wide Web; artist-In-Residence for UVA’s 1990 Curry Youth Summer Writing Program; 1968 exhibitor for a 2-month public exhibit of Cut-Out Writing Poetry, now called magnetic poetry, at the Lynchburg, Va. Fine Arts Center; runner-up, with the poem “The Truth about Elephants”, in the 1963 UVA English Dept. Senior Competition; student poet of “The Ant”, published in the 1962 UVA Magazine.