Rivers I Don't Live By - Softcover

“These poems are restless. They describe concisely her themes of geographic dislocation and without saying it outright, she zeros in on a universal wish to belong. As the poems inhabited place after place, I kept wanting to know where they would lead. Nelson’s poems, idiosyncratic in form, evoked a deep sensation. Her voice shifted something within me.” —Carol Levin, Concrete Wolf Contest judge & author of Stunned by the Velocity

Kelly Nelson’s poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for Best of the Net and have appeared in 2 River View, I-70 Review, Watershed Review and elsewhere. She’s the recipient of a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and was a Visiting Artist at the Regional Cultural Center in New York Mills, Minnesota. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Brandeis University and teaches Interdisciplinary Studies at Arizona State University. Find more at www.kelly-nelson.com.