Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four poetry collections: Oceanic (Copper Canyon Press, 2018), Lucky Fish (Tupelo Press, 2011), winner of the 2011 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize; At the Drive-In Volcano (Tupelo Press, 2007), winner of the Balcones Poetry Prize; and Miracle Fruit (Tupelo Press, 2003), winner of the Global Filipino Award and the Tupelo Press Prize. She is the author of four poetry collections, including her most recent, Oceanic (2018), a collection of illustrated nature essays, and an epistolary nature chapbook (with Ross Gay). By Aimee Nezhukumatathil. I have faith that the pile of fortypainted turtles balanced on top of each other will not fallas the whole messy mass makes a scrabble-runfor the creek and away from a fox’s muddy paws.I have been thinking of you on these moonless nights—nights so full of blue fur and needle-whiskers, I don’t darelinger outside for long. She earned her BA and MFA from the Ohio State University and was a Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Click the icon above to listen to this audio poem. Raymond Carver Aimee Nezhukumatathil was born in Chicago to parents who emigrated from the Philippines and India. She is a professor of English at the State University of New York at Fredonia and lives in Fredonia, New York. The best thing to do in that moment is to just smile and smile, even if your smile is thin. Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pushcart Prize. © Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Aimee Nezhukumatathil was born in Chicago to a Filipina mother and South Indian father. a soft hum. It can be helpful to focus on the wonder of the natural world when so much of what is happening around us feels out of our control. So thin—a marker-tip line with a waxy shine—. She was the 2016-17 Grisham writer-in-residence at the University of Mississippi, where she is currently a professor of English in the MFA program. Aimee Nezhukumatathil (born in Chicago, Illinois) is an American poet. Sometimes if you put an ear, to the dark slash between my hip bones, you can hear. Used with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc.m on behalf of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org. I wonder if scientists could classifyus a binary star—something like Albireo, four-hundredlight years away. September 11, 2020. And I suppose some of that daydream-y distractedness was what kept me from ever fully understanding how exactly to play the game most of my life. Baked Goods Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four poetry collections: Oceanic (Copper Canyon … She is the author of four poetry collections, including her most recent, Oceanic (2018), a collection of illustrated nature essays, and an … — Aimee NezhukumatathilAbout Aimee NezhukumatathilAimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of "Lucky Fish" (Tupelo Press, 2011). She received her BA in English and MFA in poetry and creative nonfiction from Ohio State University in Columbus. And that made sense to me, because a horse is night: soot-hoof and nostril, dark as a sabled evening with no stars, bats, or moon blooms. All rights reserved. If a white girl tries to tell you what your brown skin can and cannot wear for makeup, just remember the smile of an axolotl. Nezhukumatathil draws upon her Filipina and Malayali Indian background to give her perspective on love, loss, and land. She earned her BA and MFA from the Ohio State University and was a Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. 9.2/3 — 1967. is an entity of December Publishing Inc., a recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity. I have faith in the single glossy capsule of a butterfly egg.I have faith in the way a wasp nest is never quietand never wants to be. © 2020 www.thespectrum.com. Pretend it’s a skit of bees in late spring. And if that. And the months and the honeyed years after that will make all the light and dark squares feel like tiles for a kitchen they can one day build together. Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil 's … Aimee Nezhukumatathil Born in 1974 in Chicago to a Filipina mother and Malayali Indian father, Aimee Nezhukumatathil is known for writing poems that sit at the intersection of three cultures: Filipino, Indian, and American. It's a night in Ohio where a man sleepsalone one week and the next, the woman he will eventually marry leans her body into his for the first time, leans a kind of faith, too-filled with white cricketsand bouquets of wild carrot. In her fourth collection of poetry, she studies forms of love as diverse and abundant as the ocean itself. I love that this star is actually two—one blue, one gold, circling each other, never touching—a single star soldered and edged in two colors if you spy iton a clear night in July. And if the oleander spins you stillanother way—take a turn and follow it. { selected poems from around the web and beyond the beyond} The Woman Who Turned Down a Date with a Cherry Farmer. All rights reserved. About Aimee . When I’m happy I can smile twice at the same time. Here's the Poem-A-Day for Friday, November 20, 2015. She received her MFA from The Ohio State University. From Oceanic (Copper Canyon Press, 2018). Nezhukumatathil is the author of Oceanic (Copper Canyon, 2018), winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Poem-A-Day - 'Autumn' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poem-A-Day - 'Morning Joy' by Claude McKay, Poem-A-Day - 'The Needs of the Many' by Brendan Constantine, Poem-A-Day - 'My Dissent and My Love Are Woven Inside Me' by Wendy Xu, Poem-A-Day - 'Where the Use of Cannon Is Impractical' by Lisa Olstein, Poem-A-Day - 'Ceremonial' by Eduardo C. Corral. © Academy of American Poets, 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038, At the Center for Retired Great Apes (audio only). I could never tell the difference between a rook or bishop, but I knew the horse meant knight. a vein of a maple leaf, a dog’s upper lip, arm of anemone. She earned her BA and MFA from the Ohio State University and was a Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. ChessBy Aimee NezhukumatathilExactly four different men have triedto teach me how to play. Email The Academy at [email protected]. Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Aimee Nezhukumatathil is professor of English at State University of New York-Fredonia, where she teaches creative writing and environmental literature. And if this evening, wherever you are,brings you face to face with a raccoon or possum—be careful of the teeth and all that wet bite.During the darkest part of the night, teeth grow longerin their mouths. It will help you avoidthe spun-light sky, what singularity we might’ve become. AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL.

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