The Literary Magazine of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers
Nick Norwood
Nick Norwood’s poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Southwest Review, Western Humanities Review, Shenandoah, Poetry Daily, The Oxford American, the PBS NewsHour site Art Beat, U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s syndicated column American Life in Poetry, on NPR’s Writer’s Almanacwith Garrison Keillor, and elsewhere. His four full volumes are Eagle & Phenix (2019), Gravel and Hawk (2012), A Palace for the Heart (2004), and The Soft Blare (2003. He has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, the Hollis Summers Prize in Poetry, an International Merit Award in Poetry from Atlanta Review, residencies at the Jentel Foundation and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, twice been a finalist for the Vassar Miller Prize, once each a semifinalist for the Verse Prize and the “Discovery”/The Nation Prize, and a finalist in both the Morton Marr Poetry Contest and the Texas Institute of Letters Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Poetry.