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Nancy Flynn

Portland, Oregon

I write therefore I am. My six-word memoir? Teetered on the precipice then jumped.

Interests: Reading, writing, not arithmetic. The nerdy art and craft of poetry. Walking and yoga. Street fairs, parades, and disco. Movies in real theatres. Theatre on real stages. Art in real galleries. Lovely meals in real restaurants. Bob Dylan as DJ on Theme Time Radio Hour. All kinds of music especially 1930s jazz. Blue-eyed half-Siamese cats. Venice, Italy! Photo: Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah. October 2015.

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Poetry Every Friday for Three Weeks!

For the next three Fridays, my poetry will be featured as the poem-a-day on What Rough Beast. Here is the one for November 30, 2018. Continue reading

Posted Dec 4, 2018 at Stream of Consciousness

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Jacmel, Haiti. June 2016.

Jacmel, Haiti. June 2016. Continue reading

Posted Jan 23, 2018 at Stream of Consciousness

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Azure: A Journal of Literary Thought Anthology

My poem, “Devil in a Blue Dress,” was published by Azure online and is now out in their first ever print anthology. Continue reading

Posted Jan 23, 2018 at Stream of Consciousness

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Rainy Day Poetry Publication News

Two poems I wrote during the past year—“Of What Is Past, or Passing, or to Come” and “Verge”—will be published in the Winter Solstice 2018 issue of riverbabble 32. Both were inspired by a week spent in Port Townsend, Washington... Continue reading

Posted Jan 23, 2018 at Stream of Consciousness

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Sugar Baby Finds a Poetry Home!

Photo by Nycleed Every now and then, you write a poem that you think will never find its true readers. “The Great and Marvelous Sugar Baby Has (Not) Spoken” was one of those poems for me. A persona meets ekphrastic... Continue reading

Posted Jun 23, 2016 at Stream of Consciousness

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Secrets and Dreams...

Three of my poems, “Elegy for the Lifelong Incunabulist,” “One More Attempt to Set the Record Straight about the Breaking Out/Away/Off/Up/Down,” and “Voyage in the Dark” have been accepted for publication in the Secrets and Dreams anthology from Kind of... Continue reading

Posted Apr 6, 2016 at Stream of Consciousness

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My poem, “On the latter-day wish for a transmigration of soul,” will be featured in the upcoming Shattered anthology from Kind of a Hurricane Press later this year. Continue reading

Posted Apr 6, 2016 at Stream of Consciousness

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Interview time...

The wonderful Anchor & Plume Press of Baton Rouge, Louisiana is publishing a pocket book of my long poem, Great Hunger, on St. Patrick’s Day. You can pre-order copies here. You can find an interview with me here. Continue reading

Posted Feb 2, 2016 at Stream of Consciousness

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The blue-dressed devil finally finds her home --

At Phantom Kangaroo -- Continue reading

Posted Feb 2, 2016 at Stream of Consciousness

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Backhoes and Hollyhocks for the Winter Solstice --

Two of my poems, “Same As It Ever Was” and “Before the chainsaw and the chain-link and the backhoe” are featured here in riverbabble 28. Continue reading

Posted Feb 2, 2016 at Stream of Consciousness

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I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me?

My poem, “Bird, Flown” has been accepted for print publication in the Fall 2015 issue of Pilgrimage magazine out of Colorado State University in Pueblo, Colorado. The themes for the double issue? Beginnings and Flight! Continue reading

Posted Sep 17, 2015 at Stream of Consciousness

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Great Hunger Poetry Pocket Book!

My multi-part, nine-page poetic sequence, “Great Hunger,” has been selected by Anchor & Plume of Baton Rouge, Louisiana for publication as a poetry pocket book in 2016! They focus on poetry about landscape and place. Glad that epic has finally... Continue reading

Posted Aug 29, 2015 at Stream of Consciousness

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August Dog Days of Summer and Disobedience...

The Disobedient issue is up and running at Poemeleon, hot off the pixel-bit presses. My (dis)obedient poem featured there includes bonfires and daffodils, spiral-bound notebooks and Rubbermaid roughneck totes. Continue reading

Posted Aug 10, 2015 at Stream of Consciousness

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UPS Delivery, Monday, June 8, 2015

A box of books! Continue reading

Posted Jun 17, 2015 at Stream of Consciousness

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Two poems to be part of the babbling river...

Actually, the journal, riverbabble, is going to published two of my poems, “Present Tense Love Poem” and “Pulling the Rope,” in their Summer 2015 issue due out by the end of June. The theme for this edition was Thought and... Continue reading

Posted Jun 10, 2015 at Stream of Consciousness

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Let the Bonfires Begin?

More publication news in the e-mail today. This time from Poemeleon where my work has appeared before, my poem with a very long title has been accepted for their upcoming Disobedient issue:“Faced with a Towering Stack of Rubbermaid Bins, the... Continue reading

Posted May 25, 2015 at Stream of Consciousness

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The form's the thing...

My poem, “A Villanelle While We Wait for Justice to Roll Down Like Water,” has been accepted for publication by Form Quarterly. Yes, that is correct, a journal devoted entirely to form! The photograph (above) is of the Civil Rights... Continue reading

Posted May 16, 2015 at Stream of Consciousness

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Back in the Literary Saddle...

After two weeks in the Finger Lakes region of central New York, tonight was a literary love-fest at The Waypost in North Portland. Six women reading their work with or without hipster-fresh-squeezed margaritas. The beat does, indeed, go on even... Continue reading

Posted May 14, 2015 at Stream of Consciousness

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Far above Cayuga's Waters...

My book-length poetry collection, Every Door Recklessly Ajar, has been accepted by Cayuga Lake Books in Ithaca, New York for publication in June 2015. Let the popping of the champagne corks begin! Continue reading

Posted Apr 13, 2015 at Stream of Consciousness

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Remember Hurricane Irene?

Photograph by David Stanley You know, the storm to trump all storms a full year before Superstorm Sandy? “Weather Hysteria,” my poem written when the 24/7 news media was a chattering frenzy about Hurricane Irene barreling hither and yon threatening... Continue reading

Posted Jan 16, 2015 at Stream of Consciousness

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A Little Gold Man...

Photograph by Bearmalaysia Two of my poems were recently published in the very excellent Gold Man Review out of Salem, Oregon: “An Elegy for Alice Who Called Out of the Blue on Her 54th Birthday in April 2010, Said She... Continue reading

Posted Jan 16, 2015 at Stream of Consciousness

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Revolutions Per Minute...

My very freewheeling, free verse persona poem about being an actual, phyical pre-vinyl long-playing record -- “Revolutions Per Minute” -- has found a poem in the upcoming Soundtracks issue of Raven Chronicles. Continue reading

Posted Jun 27, 2014 at Stream of Consciousness

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The wise words arrive when needed...

To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something. — Lao Tzu Continue reading

Posted Feb 25, 2014 at Stream of Consciousness

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Inspiration while waiting for the ice to melt...

drip by drip by drip by drip by drip by drip by drip by drip by drip by drip... Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. —Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading

Posted Feb 10, 2014 at Stream of Consciousness

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Writer in Residence, Oregon Writers Colony, Valentines Day Weekend --

Writer in Residence at the Oregon Writers Colony the weekend the hearts are readily doled out. The proximity of the Pacific Ocean (as always) a major bonus.... Continue reading

Posted Jan 9, 2014 at Stream of Consciousness

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