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Just Published: The Ledger of Mistakes, by Kathy Nelson


Praise for The Ledger of Mistakes
“Why remember the dead?” poet Kathy Nelson begins this sobering meditation, a descent and rise through what’s lost and sometimes found again, her keen eye on the natural world, her mother in the Bardo and in life, both trouble and love restored, unshakable grief, regret, triumph, mystery… And why exactly? Because we need these poems as lens, as touchstone. And such lovely, startling interventions of language and image! Vivid detail, layer upon layer—say, a “landscape stitched with fencerows,” or to hold a breath “until someone unlocks the door.” That someone is this most remarkable poet. “Last night,” Nelson writes, “I found a hidden stairway leading down/into a maze of rooms …” And what a rewarding gift for all of us, to follow her there.
     —Marianne Boruch, Bestiary Dark 

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​Kathy Nelson is a graduate of the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She is the author of two chapbooks: Cattails (Main Street Rag, 2013) and Whose Names Have Slipped Away (Finishing Line Press, 2016). In 2019, she was awarded the James Dickey Prize by Five Points, A Journal of Literature and Art. Her work has appeared in Kakalak, LEON Literary Journal, New Ohio Review, Southern Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, Twelve Mile Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and other journals. She lives in western Nevada.

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      • NEW—Heather Swan
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      • NEW—Kathy Nelson
      • NEW—Andrea Hollander
      • NEW—The Animals of My Earth School, by Mildred Barya
      • NEW--Flatback Sally Country, by Rachel Custer
      • NEW--This Strange Garment, by Nicole Callihan
      • Paradise Is Jagged, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
      • The Mayapple Forest, by Kim Ports Parsons
      • Leave Me a Little Want, by Beverly Burch
      • Notes from the Column of Memory, by Wendy Drexler
      • The Night Divers, by Melanie McCabe
      • light waves, by Kirsten Shu-ying Chen
      • Horse Not Zebra, by Eric Nelson
      • Design, by Theresa Burns
      • House Bird, by Robb Fillman
      • Years Beyond the River, by David Axelrod
      • The Poet & The Architect, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • Wind Apples, by Jeff Ewing
      • The Feast Delayed, by Diane LeBlanc
      • These Few Seeds, by Meghan Sterling
      • The Curator's Notes, by Robin Rosen Chang
      • A Cartography of Home, by Hayden Saunier
      • Tell Me How You Got Here, by Emily Franklin
      • Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars, by Patricia Clark
      • Ghost Dogs, by Dion O'Reilly
      • A Kinship with Ash, by Heather Swan
      • Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound, by Yvonne Zipter
      • Somatic, by Ann Keniston
      • The Honey of Earth, by David Graham
      • Sugar Fix, by Kory Wells
      • The Davids Inside David, by Sarah Wetzel
      • The Bones of Winter Birds, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
      • Strange What Rises, by Gary Whitehead
      • Suspension, by Paige Riehl
      • The Northway, by Lisa Bellamy
      • The Infinite Doctrine of Water, by Michael T. Young
      • Aileron, by Geraldine Connolly
      • No Such Thing As Distance, by Karen Paul Holmes
      • Leaves Surface Like Skin, by Michelle Menting
      • How to Wear This Body, by Hayden Saunier
      • Travel Notes from the River Styx, by Susanna Lang
      • Route 66 and Its Sorrows, by Carolyn Miller
      • Bluewords Greening, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • The Canopy, by Patricia Clark
      • Cutting Room, by Jessica de Koninck
      • The Persistence of Longing, by Lynne Knight
      • Confessions of a Captured Angel, by Neil Carpathios
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      • The Strategic Poet
      • The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics
      • The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop
      • The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop
    • Anthologies >
      • A Constellation of Kisses
      • The Book of Donuts, edited by Jason Lee Brown and Shanie Latham
      • The Doll Collection
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