D. Nurkse D. Nurkse's twelfth poetry collection A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS, a "new and selected," was published by Knopf in 2022. He has taught poetry in MFA programs, at Rikers Island, and in inner city schools.

Other poems by D. Nurkse in Verse Daily:
February 22, 2023:   "Carriers" "A soldier in fatigues stood guard at Grand Central..."
January 6, 2022:   "Our Winter" "Someone who claims he does not know what he is doing..."
December 10, 2021:   "Our Winter" "The senators hear a murmur in the distance...."
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..."

Books by D. Nurkse:

Other poems on the web by D. Nurkse:
"Order to Disperse,"
"Fall of Varia"
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.