D. Nurkse D. Nurkse is the author of ten collections of poetry. The most recent is a chapbook, Time on the Move, 2020 and Tony's Blues (bilingual — French & English) 2020. It's About Time, is forthcoming from NYQ Books, 2021 Drastic Dislocations: New and Selected Poems [New York Quarterly Books, 2012]. His poetry has appeared in over 100 journals, including Ploughshares, The Nation, Centennial Review, and American Poetry Review. His study of poetic revision, Visions & Revisions: The Poets' Practice [T.Y. Crowell, 1971], was reissued in a new and expanded edition by Broadview Press [2002]. A special interest is his presentation of poetry readings in collaboration with jazz. He has made eight recordings of his poetry with jazz, the most recent being titled Lisbon Sunset, (2016) and What Was, Was. Barry is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the City University of New York and a poetry editor of the journal, American Book Review. In 1972, he founded the Annual Spring Poetry Festival, the Poetry Outreach Center and the city-wide High School Poetry Contest. He remains an active advisor and participant in this program.

Other poems by D. Nurkse in Verse Daily:
February 20, 2021:   "Conspiracy Of Starlight" "Saturn is coming to power...."
February 24, 2019:   "Inmost Circle" "So Virgil took me..."
February 14, 2016:   "Half-Finished Houses" "No-Name stuck a thumb in my eyes...."
June 7, 2010:   "Syntax" "When we were apes..."
April 18, 2009:   "Isle Au Haut" "I spent that August in your mind..."
March 20, 2008:   "Grafton" "Hardly had I died..."
March 13, 2008:   "Coligny" "There was a passerby on that road..."
July 15, 2007:   "Trial Marriage" " Strangers treat each other..."
May 20, 2005:  "Pas De L'Incise" ""We came down from the little mountains..."

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Other poems on the web by D. Nurkse:
Five poems
"A Clearing on Ruth Island"
"The Constitution at Night"
"The Physical World"
"Care"
"Letter from the Foothills"
"The Present" \
"Love in the Last Days: After Tristan and Iseult"
"The Pale Side of the Leaves"
Thirty-two poems
Five poems
Four poems
Two poems
Eleven poems
"Letter From The Capital"
"The Unfinished"

D. Nurkse's Website.

D. Nurkse According to Wikipedia.

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