Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the New York Times bestseller World of Wonders (Milkweed, 2020), which was named Barnes & Noble Book of the Year. She is also the author of four books of poetry, including Oceanic (Copper Canyon, 2018). Awards for her writing include Guggenheim and NEA fellowships. She is the poetry editor of Sierra Club’s Sierra magazine and is a professor of English in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi.
Poetry
July/Aug 2022
Triggerfish Invective
The Kenyon Review · “Triggerfish Invective” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil The last time I sank my face into the neritic ocean, I found only beige and bleached-out bones, not orange and […]
May/June 2022
Bodies in the Air
If you want to talk, just say the word, hummingbird. I want to know when you will flick-flack from crepe myrtle or beautyberry bush. In Morocco’s Erg Chebbi desert, spiders […]
Summer 2014
Self-Portrait as C-Section Scar
When I’m happy, I can smile twice at the same time. So thin—a marker-tip line with a waxy shine— a vein of a maple leaf, a dog’s upper lip, arm of anemone.