Nance Van Winckel

Nance Van Winckel's fifth collection of poems, No Starling, is out from U. of Washington Press. She is the recipient of two NEA Poetry Fellowships and awards from the Poetry Soceity of America, Poetry, and Prairie Schooner. New poems appear in The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, Crazyhorse, Field, and Gettysburg Review. A new collection of poems will appear in 2013 from U. of Washington Press. She is also the author of three collections of short fiction and teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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What Enters, What Alters
Many men moving, trying to get something out of the lake. Bending. Pulling. From a raft with yellow crime tape around it. I have to stop dancing to look. I have to find the binoculars, and turn off the music …