Category Archives: poetry

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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“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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“Among writers…the question is not who influences you, but which people give you courage.”

Posted on December 18, 2017 by nancohen

That quotation is from Hilary Mantel’s Paris Review interview, and I quote it in this interview with Bree Tadish from the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.  Three more weeks until winter classes start!  Here’s one question and answer: What do you hope your … Continue reading →

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UCLA Extension Workshop, Winter 2018

Posted on November 25, 2017 by nancohen

I’m offering a Poetry I workshop through the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program in Winter Quarter 2018.  This is the first poetry workshop UCLA Extension is offering at their new Woodland Hills (Warner Center) location, which is making their course offerings … Continue reading →

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Fourth Sundays at the Claremont Library, October 22

Posted on October 15, 2017 by nancohen

I’m really looking forward to this! As you can probably tell, Carol V. Davis and I have a few things in common.  It wasn’t deliberately planned to have two poets of Russian Jewish ancestry reading on the same afternoon, but … Continue reading →

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Slouching toward “Jeopardy!”: a footnote. Also, first poetry readings of the fall!

Posted on September 3, 2017 by nancohen

The Teachers Tournament is in reruns right now–last week was the quarterfinals, and this week we have three days of semifinals and then the two-day final.  So I’ll wait to finish this account until the reruns are over. Two events … 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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“Walt you contain enough, why don’t you let it out then?”

Posted on January 1, 2017 by nancohen

On the morning of New Year’s Day, I drove out to Newbury Park to pick up my daughter from a friend’s house.  (I passed the Newbury Park library branch, which was closed, of course, but noticed that it looks like a … Continue reading →

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Publishing opportunity: Rattle (poetry)

Posted on January 4, 2016 by nancohen

Also from socallitlist, an opportunity from the poetry magazine Rattle for Angelenos (that’s my preferred spelling, no disrespect to Rattle’s): Our Summer 2016 issue will be dedicated to Angelinos. The poems may be any subject or length, but must written by poets who … Continue reading →

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