Selected Poems
The Poetry Foundation: “What We Believed,” “Offerings,” and others
Academy of American Poets: “Floater”
American Life in Poetry:“Restless After School,”“Little Parka,”“Cliff Swallows-Missouri Breaks”
The New Yorker: “Pronghorn”
Washington Post:“5 Poems Inspired by Nature Photography for National Poetry Month”
Harvard Review: “Star Quilt, and Starfish Sent From a Distant Place, Balanced Against Window Glass”
Northwest Review:“Earliest Photograph”
Plume Online: “Observatory at the Prison”
“Bad River Road is a fearless and elegiac book... the combination of sharply drawn character and deftly rendered description of place recall Cather, or even Chekhov.”
—David Wojahn, William Carlos Williams Award-winning author of World Tree, Interrogation Palace and Spirit Cabinet.
“The project of Debra Nystrom’s poetry isn’t merely to recapture and modulate experience, but to come to terms with it, to redeem it, in a radical way.”