Horse Not Zebra, by Eric Nelson
Congratulations to Eric whose book, Horse Not Zebra, received Honorable Mention for the 2023 North Carolina Poetry Society’s Brockman-Campbell Award.
Congratulations to Eric whose book, Horse Not Zebra, has been awarded Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize in Poetry.
Congratulations to Eric whose book, Horse Not Zebra, has been named one of six winners of the daVinci Eye Award for cover design in the Eric Hoffer contest. We thank artist Laura Berendsen Hughes for the use of her wonderful painting.
Congratulations to Eric whose poem "Aubade with Bear" was featured on Verse Daily on May 28, 2022.
Congratulations to Eric whose poem "My Alarm" was featured on Autumn Sky Poetry Daily on May 4, 2022.
Praise for Horse Not Zebra
These wonderful poems capture perfectly, and distinctively, a sensibility very much of our time: witty, yearning, a little battered. They’re rich with insights both tough-minded and humane. Eric Nelson’s quiet narratives, his zinger images, his direct and yet surprising lingo—these will charm you, and they’ll feed your mind and soul. I’ve followed his work for decades and (this is saying a lot) I say, Horse Not Zebra is his best book yet.
—Jeanne Larsen, What Penelope Chooses
Congratulations to Eric whose book, Horse Not Zebra, has been awarded Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize in Poetry.
Congratulations to Eric whose book, Horse Not Zebra, has been named one of six winners of the daVinci Eye Award for cover design in the Eric Hoffer contest. We thank artist Laura Berendsen Hughes for the use of her wonderful painting.
Congratulations to Eric whose poem "Aubade with Bear" was featured on Verse Daily on May 28, 2022.
Congratulations to Eric whose poem "My Alarm" was featured on Autumn Sky Poetry Daily on May 4, 2022.
Praise for Horse Not Zebra
These wonderful poems capture perfectly, and distinctively, a sensibility very much of our time: witty, yearning, a little battered. They’re rich with insights both tough-minded and humane. Eric Nelson’s quiet narratives, his zinger images, his direct and yet surprising lingo—these will charm you, and they’ll feed your mind and soul. I’ve followed his work for decades and (this is saying a lot) I say, Horse Not Zebra is his best book yet.
—Jeanne Larsen, What Penelope Chooses
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Eric Nelson is the author of three chapbooks and three full-length collections, including The Interpretation of Waking Life (Arkansas, 1991), selected by Reed Whittemore as the winner of the inaugural Arkansas Poetry Award; Terrestrials (Texas Review Press, 2004), chosen by Maxine Kumin as the winner of the X.J. Kennedy Award; and Some Wonder (Gival Press, 2015), winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award, judged by Seth Brady Tucker. Among other venues, his poems have appeared in Poetry, The Sun, and The Oxford American. His poems have also been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. He taught literature and creative writing at Virginia Tech and Georgia Southern University for thirty-one years. In 2015, he and his wife moved to Asheville, North Carolina, where he writes and gardens and teaches part-time in The Great Smokies Writing Program.
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