Nina Puro's writing is in Guernica, the PEN / America Poetry Series, Witness, & others, including chapbooks from Argos Books and dancing girl press. They are a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative and recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Syracuse University (MFA, 2012), Deming Fund, & others. Nina is a social worker in Brooklyn, NY.

Books by Nina Puro:

Other poems on the web by Nina Puro:
Two poems
Two poems
"Prescription"
Three poems
"Edge of Seventeen"
Three poems
"If you're a bent nail, everyone looks like a hammer"
Two poems
"High Intensity INterval Training"
Two poems
"Room Lit By a Bullet & A Photograph of a Pony"
"A Forest in Which There is No Clearing"
"amenorrhea, or, self portrait with space heater"

Nina Puro's Website.

Nina Puro on Twitter.

About Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House:

"Nina Puro so moves me, through both an open hearted, musical expansiveness and a self-honest skepticism about the ultimate powers of language and insight. Everywhere in this remarkable first book I feel the writing bringing me closer to the life lived—it speaks of and to that life with intimacy and vulnerability. But Puro is no confessional, and their perspective is not singular or merely personal. Each image is multiplied and transformed into another, and the opacity that results is complex. This is a poet with a 360-degree vision, especially around anything having to do with gender and sexuality: 'we are all part of a current, it is said, but perhaps it is dark.' Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House made me think of the poetry of both Adrienne Rich and George Oppen, in the courageous power of its imagination, in its will to change, and its refusal of the blandishments of the period style. It's that good."
—David Rivard

"I love these poems. They are romantic, full of stuff, shape shifting, gendered, dark and political. And I am never bored. I have not read these poems before. They are not outside their canon yet they improve and expand it. Like this: often poetry is what you do instead of reading a novel but here you can just do both. And I don't mean that formally. The pleasure is different but the same. They've got some pain and some weight. I mean they're muscularly true. I want more so I'm going to read this book backwards now."
—Eileen Myles