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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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“A Sense of Location and an Act of Leave-Taking: Remembering Eavan Boland” in Poetry Northwest

Posted on December 8, 2020 by nancohen

A Sense of Location and an Act of Leave-Taking I also have two poems in the Summer/Fall issue of Poetry Northwest, “In the Botanical Garden” and “Love” (which is another thousand-year-old word poem).

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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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“Bee 1” in the SF Chronicle “State Lines” column

Posted on April 28, 2017 by nancohen

Poet David Roderick’s lucid words about my poem “Bee 1” make it a particular delight to have a poem in Sunday’s newspaper.

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A Newborn Girl at Passover

Posted on April 10, 2017 by nancohen

When Yael, the daughter of my friends Lisa and Aaron, was born, I wrote this poem for her.  She celebrates her twentieth birthday at the end of Passover this year. “A Newborn Girl at Passover” at the Academy of American Poets To … Continue reading →

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Interview with Matthew Henerson

Posted on August 31, 2014 by nancohen

Matt is working on a film project with a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA), so I have Agreed to Not Disclose anything about it here.  But later on he’s planning to go down to San Diego to play Fluellen and the Archbishop … Continue reading →

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Envy & Kindness

Posted on March 30, 2012 by nancohen

“Envy and Kindness” is the title of tonight’s USC MPW student-faculty reading.  This series, curated by Niree Perian, lands at LACMA’s Brown Auditorium tonight at 7:30 PM.  Reading will be faculty member Judith Freeman and students Richard Mathiasen, Leonard Pung, … Continue reading →

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Applications are now open for the 2012 Napa Valley Writers’ Conference

Posted on March 5, 2012 by nancohen

We’re taking applications now for the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, which will be held at the Upper Valley Campus of Napa Valley College in St. Helena, California, from Sunday, July 22, through Friday, July 27.  This is my tenth year directing … Continue reading →

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