Category Archives: poems

Regarding the Line

Posted on November 18, 2022 by nancohen

Excerpts of this piece appeared in the “Cataloging the Line” edition of Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets. It contains some thoughts about lineation and what I often describe as “the tension of the sentence against the line.” … Continue reading →

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“Subway Elegy” in Beloit Poetry Journal

Posted on November 9, 2022 by nancohen

This is a wonderful issue of Beloit Poetry Journal and it’s an honor to be in it! The poem appears on Verse Daily today. I actually have two poems titled “Subway Elegy” in my current book manuscript. This is (at … Continue reading →

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New poems in Terrain.org and The Night Heron Barks

Posted on June 29, 2022 by nancohen

Just catching up on some recently published poems. It’s my first appearance in both of these outlets, and I’m really delighted by both of them, having admired each for a long time: “Meteor Crater,” “Cabin,” and “Feel” in Terrain.org. This … Continue reading →

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“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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“On Merrion Street” in the Los Angeles Review

Posted on July 18, 2020 by nancohen

I drafted this poem a few days after meeting up with Eavan Boland for a happy lunch and walk in Dublin between Christmas and New Year’s 2018, and revised it over the next year or so. It felt elegiac then. … Continue reading →

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“Shelter”

Posted on July 18, 2020 by nancohen

A poem about staying “safer at home” during the pandemic: “Shelter” in ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action.

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The Arkansas International, #8

Posted on April 9, 2020 by nancohen

The Spring 2020 issue of the Arkansas International will be online for a month. It includes some beautiful work, including translations of Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian by Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey from the forthcoming collection Lean Against This Late Hour (Penguin … Continue reading →

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“Thirty-Year Friendship”

Posted on May 25, 2019 by nancohen

“Thirty-Year Friendship” is the third poem I’ve published so far from my third-book manuscript, which I’ve been working on for several years. It appeared this month in SWWIM Every Day, a thoughtfully and deftly curated (if I do say so … Continue reading →

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“Yes and No”

Posted on January 19, 2019 by nancohen

I published two poems in 2018, “Yes and No” in Ploughshares (not currently available online) and this poem, “A Liking for Clocks,” in Poetry Ireland Review.  These are the first two poems I’ve published from the manuscript I’m working on now, and it was … Continue reading →

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Renga for Obama

Posted on January 31, 2017 by nancohen

The Harvard Review is hosting a celebratory “Renga for Obama” on the conclusion of our 44th president’s second term.  A renga is a Japanese collaborative form consisting of linked stanzas composed in pairs.  A new pair of stanzas appears each day—a traditional haiku(which … Continue reading →

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