Author Archives: nancohen

“Overheard: ‘We are all God’s poems'”

Posted on April 1, 2022 by nancohen

Written in response to an anthology prompt, this poem appears on the first day of National Poetry Month in EcoTheo Review: “Overheard: ‘We are all God’s poems’”

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Essay on the new translation of Bambi, in Electric Literature

Posted on February 26, 2022 by nancohen

Jack Zipes’s new translation, which came out this week, emphasizes Felix Salten’s 1923 novel’s evocation of the plight of European Jews. (The Nazis banned the novel in 1936 as a “political allegory.”) I was fascinated to reread the novel through … Continue reading →

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Thousand-Year-Old-Words

Posted on December 3, 2021 by nancohen

My chapbook Thousand-Year-Old Words is out now from Glass Lyre Press. You can order it from their website, from Bookshop.org, or obtain a signed copy by sending me a message using the Contact link above.

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“To Feel Something That Was Not Of Our World” in The Curator

Posted on November 14, 2021 by nancohen

An essay about Nina Katchadourian’s extraordinary exhibition To Feel Something That Was Not Of Our World.

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“The Partitive Case” in DMQ Review

Posted on October 17, 2021 by nancohen

This amazing image by Margeaux Walter accompanies “The Partitive Case” in the prose poem issue of DMQ Review.

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“Prothalamion in a Pandemic” and “Antenna” in Electric Literature’s The Commuter

Posted on July 19, 2021 by nancohen

One poem about a (twice-)postponed wedding, and one about–well, longing, and loss, and the strange fascination of a telescoping antenna like the one on a boombox or kitchen radio: “Prothalamion in a Pandemic” and “Antenna.”

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“On Mentors” in Amsterdam Quarterly

Posted on June 24, 2021 by nancohen

A role, not a permanent appointment. New short essay, “On Mentors,” in Amsterdam Quarterly 31.

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“Shore Elements” in The Cortland Review

Posted on May 29, 2021 by nancohen

After many years of living in California, I finally wrote a poem about the beach, and am very happy to have it appear (with audio) in issue 87 of The Cortland Review. (I remember when, years and years ago, TCR … Continue reading →

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“The Word ‘I'” in the Inflectionist Review

Posted on April 17, 2021 by nancohen

Another “thousand-year-old word poem,” in the Inflectionist Review: “The Word ‘I’”. The image is a detail the cover image by featured artist Poppy Dully.

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“Notes on Perimenopause” in the Journal of the American Medical Association

Posted on December 8, 2020 by nancohen

A poem about something that we don’t talk about publicly very much. “Notes on Perimenopause” (December 8, 2020)

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