Debra Nystrom‘s most recent book of poems is Bad River Road, from Sarabande Books. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at The University of Virginia.
Nonfiction
May/June 2018
You Didn’t Hear It from Me
1 Blanket That day, the day after, on the neighbor’s side of our low, backyard wall, I ate raisins and watched beetles creep between stones, listening to other bugs tick […]
Fiction
Spring 2014
River
A little cool, you think, then the iron-scent takes you in, you leave your feet and let it—early summer chill easing its ripple across your chest as if this water […]
In Memoriam
This is No Dream
Last winter, on December 30, American Poetry lost one of its most distinctive voices, Eleanor Ross Taylor—a voice that only recently, in Taylor’s seventies and eighties, had begun to receive […]