Nick Courtright is the founder and Executive Editor of Atmosphere Press. He is the author of The Forgotten World, about Americanness and identity in a vast global culture, Let There Be Light, called “a continual surprise and a revelation” by Naomi Shihab Nye, and Punchline, a National Poetry Series finalist. His prose and poetry has appeared in such places as The Harvard Review, The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, The Huffington Post, The Best American Poetry, Gothamist, and SPIN Magazine, among dozens of others.

Other poems by Nick Courtright in Verse Daily:
July 24, 2013:   "Nothing Nice to Say" "When I hear the air-conditioner kick on..."
April 23, 2012:   "Dogma" "Dogma, from the Greek, means "that which one..."
September 24, 2009:   "The Human Experience" "But what is its rationale? See, earth has nothing to do..."
September 10, 2009:   "Destinations, VI." "Even after I died, I could not close my eyes..."
August 4, 2008:   "Elegy for the Builder's Wife" "Slow build, houses where thousands live..."

Books by Nick Courtright:

Other poems on the web by Nick Courtright:
"Sophomore"
Two poems
Two poems
"Goddess"
Four poems
"Citrus"

Nick Courtright's Website.

Nick Courtright on Twitter.

About The Forgotten World:

"Nick Courtright has not forgotten the world. In his poems, what tethers and separates us is visible. His language is graceful, self-aware, and highly memorable."
—Eduardo C. Corral

"Nick Courtright's The Forgotten World begins with a "heritage like gum on a Walmart parking lot" and searches for a relationship with the world--what part of nature is a father, what purchase gives them a brother. In these poems the speaker, forever elsewhere, quests for a sense of self, for anew definition of family, for a fire that might make everything begin again."
—Traci Brimhall

"These are poems that reach for elusive truths, as their speaker seeks to understand his place inside the world, inside whiteness, inside the magnitude of empire, inside the complexities of the human spirit. It's a search that resists the comfortable answers and leads readers to a space of restless astonishments."
—Matthew Olzmann

"The Forgotten World is a terrific book with a surprisingly wide range: it explores the world, the home, and the soul with honesty, dark humor, and love. In myriad landscapes and poetic forms, Nick Courtright skillfully depicts the complexities of balance and collapse--both the personal and universal--the past's and the ever-impending."
—Jennifer L. Knox