Nadia Colburn
Nadia Colburn

Nadia Colburn is the author of the poetry book The High Shelf. Her poetry and prose have been published in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Spirituality & Health, Lion's Roar, The Yale Review, and many other places. She is the founder of Align Your Story Writing School, which brings together traditional literary and creative writing studies with mindfulness, embodied practices, and social and environmental engagement. Find her at www.nadiacolburn.com.

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My Throat

A poem by Nadia Colburn

is a fire, is a line of birds waiting to rise up from still water is the earth dark and heavy with spring rain is the air as the mist lifts, sighing, ready to let go—

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When Death Comes

A poem by Nadia Colburn

what will I want back? You in bed close to me. I have been so hungry with a hunger you have filled— you feeding me like the ripe lychees the birds gorged on that summer in Costa Rica as we walked barefoot with our children to the beach. Red skins on the ground and the […]

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Today Like Yesterday

A poem by Nadia Colburn

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