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“The Word ‘I'”

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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“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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