Debra Nystrom
Debra Nystrom is the author of three books of poetry, A Quarter Turn from Sheep Meadow Press,and Torn Sky and most recently Bad River Road from Sarabande Books. Her work has appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Best American Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Slate, The Threepenny Review, and Yale Review. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Virginia.
Reading List
Summer Afternoon: Thimble, Needle, Notions
Willy gone with his knife to open birds or clean fish, practice lifting rows of bones out of caught bodies. Up at the house old china-head Beulah, Aunt Ruby’s doll, watches from her shelf beside the glass pistol that once …