Nance Van Winckel's fourth collection of poetry is Beside Ourselves (Miami University Press, 2003). A new collection of poems, No Starling, will appear from University of Washington Press in 2007. Recent poems appear in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, New Letters, and The Massachusetts Review. She's published three books of short fiction, most recently Curtain Creek Farm (Persea Books, 2000). She's received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a 2005 Pushcart Award, and Poetry Magazine's 2005 Friends of Literature Award. She teaches in the MFA programs at Eastern Washington University and Vermont College.

All the poems by Nance Van Winckel that have appeared on Verse Daily:
February 19, 2007:   "Sky One" "In an early sky, the molecules of my wings..."
December 28, 2006:   "The Object of the Object" " : to bound, or be..."
November 6, 2006:   "The Forgiveness Channel" " Is your shadow bird over..."
December 20, 2005:   "And the Wound Says" " Step into the river and let the ripples cool us...."
June 24, 2005:  "When the River Comes Toward Me" "it comes with whatever it's..."
January 12, 2005:  "Awaiting the Return Ferry" "Ghostly, echoes of old guffaws from a crowd..."
July 13, 2004:  "Simone Weil at the Renault Factory (1935)" "A thread in a line of threads, she stands..."
January 9, 2004:  "Let me Remind You You Are Still Under Oath" "Out of marsh out of the bronchial..."
February 3, 2003:  "Passing Through the Shadows Of Great Buildings" "The beggar in plaid blankets wanted to kiss my hand..."
January 15, 2003:  "Cautionary Tale" "The funny bearded goat..."
January 6, 2003:  "Bid Me Be the Bird" "May the lower, liquid half of the world..."

Books by Nance Van Winckel: No Starling, Beside Ourselves, After the Spell, The 24 doors: Advent calendar poems, The Dirt, Curtain Creek Farm, Limited Lifetime Warranty,

Other poems on the web by Nance Van Winckel:
Seven poems
"Verlaine Still in Prison"
"Jonah, Going the Opposite Way"
"The Company We Keep"
"Nicholas by the River"
"Insemination Tango"
"Waking, Working"
"Slate"

Nance Van Winckel's Home Page.

About Crazyhorse:
Poets in this issue: Nin Andrews, Ciaran Berry, Lisa Beskin, Marianne Boruch, Elena Karina Byrne, René Char, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Michael Chitwood, Wyn Cooper, Chard deNiord, Chris Forhan, Michele Glazer, Albert Goldbarth, Mark Halperin, James Harms, John Hodgen, Edward Haworth Hoeppner, Nathan Hoks, Laura Koritz, John Mann, Debra Nystrom, Srikanth Reddy, Allison Titus, Sandy Tseng, Nance Van Winckel, G. C. Waldrep, Amanda Rachelle Warren, Baron Wormser