Could Marie Antoinette’s wigs get any higher? Could the anonymous women riding in hot air balloons alone with gentlemen be any more scandalous? Does an Ozark holler hold the mouth to a lost cave with the longest, thickest vein of gold in North America? Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past is a collection of rumors, secrets, tall tales, and lies that begins at the court of Louis XV and ends in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. With all the astonishments of history and the intimacy of memoir, Kathryn Nuernberger’s collection juxtaposes peripheral figures from the French Revolution—the assassin, the executioner, the mistress, the spy, the son of a slave, the transgender swordfighter—with the oral histories of poachers, prophets, well witches, and ghosts of the Ozarks a century later. In essays that are equal parts historical and personal, Nuernberger brings the marvelous strangeness of the past into our present moment with wry wit and insight. Nuernberger has an eye for salvaging overlooked snapshots of human decency and moments of moral courage—the memories of which we might just want to save for later.

Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past (The Journal Non/Fiction Prize)

Literature & Fiction

Nuernberger, Kathryn

Essays & Correspondence

Ohio State University Press

Advanced Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies)

History & Criticism

Bloomsbury Academic

A text for practiced poets, this book offers a springboard beyond the basics into more daring poetic traditions, experimentation and methods. It lays out the myriad conversations influencing contemporary poetics, paying attention to its roots in historical and theoretical thinking. With a focus on innovation and breaking established boundaries, Advanced Poetry introduces you to the poetics shaping the contemporary literary moment, first guiding you through the contexts and principles of these forms using a range of practical examples, before prompting you to pick up the pen yourself. Spanning decades and continents, and covering the rich field of poets writing today, this book shows how to read, explicate, and write poetry and includes discussion of: - received traditions and innovative forms - confessional and epistolary poetry - aesthetic experimentation with voice - methods and theories developed by early Surrealists -deep image and the poetics of spells - ecopoetics & poetry of place - writing the body based on queer theory and disability studies - docupoetics and lyric research - racial imaginaries and poetics of liberation - digital poetics - writing in community with other poets and collaborative, interdisciplinary projects - revision processes and putting together a collection or chapbook -advice on writing artist statements and other professional materials Bringing together a comprehensive craft guide with a carefully collated anthology showcasing the (existing) limits of what is possible in poetry, this text explores how poetry since the 20th century has embraced traditional structures, borrowed from other disciplines, and invented wildly new forms. With close readings, writing prompts, excerpts of interviews from key figures in the field and a supplementary companion website, this is the definitive text for any poet looking to continue their poetic journey.

Zeller, Maya Jewell

Poetry. Winner of the 2010 Antivenom Poetry Award. Contest judge, Jane Satterfield, had this to say about RAG &amp; BONE: "This is a poetry of pain and power...whether describing the precise coloration of fruit skin, the contours of memory, or secrets of Fatima which turn out to be 'cryptic mumbo jumbo,' RAG &amp; BONE reveals complicated truths with rare eloquence and wit. Whatever the future holds, Nuernberger remembers, even as she beholds the present with blinding intensity. Lyrical and deeply felt, the poems in RAG &amp; BONE track the movement of a sometimes skeptical but always engaged and impassioned mind."

Rag & Bone

Poetry

Elixir Press

Winner of the 2015 James Laughlin Award, Kathryn Nuernberger's The End of Pink is populated by strange characters—Bat Boy, automatons, taxidermied mermaids, snake oil salesmen, and Benjamin Franklin—all from the annals of science and pseudoscience. Equal parts fact and folklore, these poems look to the marvelous and the weird for a way to understand childbirth, parenthood, sickness, death, and—of course—joy.
Finding myself in a mesmeric orientation, before me appeared Benjamin Franklin, who magnetized his French paramours at dinner parties as an amusing diversion from his most serious studies of electricity and the ethereal fire. I like thinking about how he would have stood on tiptoe to kiss their buzzing lips and everyone would gasp and clap for the blue spark between them. I believe in an honest and forthright manner, a democracy of plain speech, so I have to find a way to explain I don't care to have sex anymore.
Kathryn Nuernberger has lived in various corners of Missouri, Louisiana, Ohio, and Montana. Her first book, Rag &amp; Bone (Elixir Press, 2011), was a love letter to backwoods junk collectors and all of the abandoned cabins in the foothills to the Ozark Mountains. An unapologetic dilettante, she has received research fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and The Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life to research aspects of the history of science and medicine. She currently lives in Columbia, Missouri, teaches at the University of Central Missouri, and serves as the director of Pleiades Press.

The End of Pink (American Poets Continuum)

BOA Editions, Ltd.

One ofBig Other's "Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2020" In this fiercely feminist ecopoetic collection, Kathryn Nuernberger reclaims love and resilience in an age of cruelty. As the speaker--an artist and intellectual--finds herself living through a rocky marriage in a conservative rural state, she maintains her sense of identity by studying the science and folklore of plants historically used for birth control. Her botanical portraits of common herbs like Queen Anne's lace and pennyroyal are interwoven with lyric biographies of&nbsp;groundbreaking women ecologists whose stories have been left untold in textbooks. With equal parts righteous fury and tender wisdom,Rue reassesses the past and recontextualizes the present to tell a story about breaking down, breaking through, and breaking into an honest, authentic expression of self.

Rue (American Poets Continuum, 176)

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This amazingly wise and nimble collection investigates the horrors inflicted on so-called “witches” of the past. 
The Witch of Eye unearths salves, potions, and spells meant to heal, yet interpreted by inquisitors as evidence of evil. The author describes torture and forced confessions alongside accounts of gentleness of legendary midwives. In one essay about a trial, we learn through folklore that Jesus’s mother was a midwife who cured her own son’s rheumatism. In other essays there are subtle parallels to contemporary discourse around abortion and environmental destruction. Nuernberger weaves in her own experiences, too. There’s an ironic look at her own wedding, an uncomfortable visit to the Prague Museum of Torture, and an afternoon spent tearing out a garden in a mercurial fit. Her researched material is eye-opening, lively, and often funny. An absolutely thrilling collection. 
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Reading Group Choices 2021 Official Selection Publishers Weekly, "Books for Short Attention Spans 2021" The Rumpus, “What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Women’s History” The Rumpus, “What to Read When 2021 Is Just Around the Corner”\n"Part memoir, part cultural criticism, entirely fascinating."\n―Kirkus Reviews, starred review\n"Drawing connections to contemporary social justice issues, philosophy, and feminism, poet and essayist Nuernberger relates a social history of so-called witches across centuries and the globe. In brief, lyrical retellings, she profiles women including Walpurga Hausmännin, a midwife executed for witchcraft in 16th-century Bavaria, and Maria Gonçalves Cajada, convicted of sorcery in 17th-century colonial Brazil. Their stories become a lens on Nuernberger’s own experiences, whether as simple as a walk in the forest, as disturbing as a visit to the Prague Museum of Torture, or as personal as her wedding."\n―“Books for Short Attention Spans 2021,” Publishers Weekly\n"This book is a social history, threaded through with folklore, mythology, current events, and glimpses into the author's own marriage. It is a poetic and hypnotic trance of a read."\n―Booklist\n"This is quintessential reading not just for the wannabe witches among us, but for its nuanced telling of a cruel and silenced history. A compendium of pungent and poignant biographical narratives of numerous so-called witches, 
The Witch of Eye is difficult to put down. Nuernberger deftly weaves memoir with well-researched material to create a fascinating, idiosyncratic intellectual history, plucked from the annals of science, medicine, theology, and feminist and critical theory. . . .you must read 
The Witch of Eye slowly and with astonishment, not unlike the way you witness the work of a camera placed next to a bud that slowly and inexplicably blossoms before your eyes."\n―"LANGUAGE IS THE SPELL: KATHRYN NUERNBERGER’S THE WITCH OF EYE," The Rumpus\n"The breadth of [ 
The Witch of Eye's] exploration is made possible in part due to Nuernberger’s nimble, probing thought, which propels this book as it visits both reality and unreality. Her propensity to question given truths foregrounds the book with wonder as Nuernberger identifies with history’s reported 'witches' for the potential she sees in their alternate, subjective, previously unspoken narratives. Nuernberger’s 
The Witch of Eye cultivates a space of wonder, a mystical space in which one may co-author reality alongside myth, science, religion, justice, and witchcraft―a space to ponder the well-kept secrets of humanity."\n―Southeast Review, online\n"Kathryn Nuernberger's essay collection 
The Witch of Eye delves into lives both past and present with amazing clarity to share their truths."\n―Largehearted Boy, online\n"Meticulously researched."\n―Monitor Saint Paul, online and print\n"These essays are rich, dense with information and images, and yet so clear-eyed in their focus and project. Like the hagstones―the naturally-occurring stones with holes, the 'stone monocle'

The Witch of Eye

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Sarabande Books

Features inaugural AWW Fellowship Best-in-Show winner Ashely Adams' short story "What the Water Told Us". Excerpts from the haiku web comic In Search of Basho, created by Ross Findlay & Mark "Fittsy" Fittock. One-act play by A.E. Weisgerber. Art by Daniel Torraca and Alex Duensing. Fiction by Suzzanna Matthews-Amanzio, Michael Seymour Blake, Chris Ames, AJ Atwater, Heather Sager, Tara Campbell, Kate Garklavs, Erika T. Wurth, Babak Lakghomi, Marcus Pactor, Siamak Vossoughi, Claire Hopple, Claire Polders, Hillary Leftwich, and Jen Michalski. Poetry by Amy Ash & Callista Buchen, Mary Flanagan, Ananda Lima, Noah Eli Gordon, Devon Wootten, Matt Muth, Trina Burke, Shannon Hearn, Cary Stough, Brennan Bestwick, Rob Cook, MK Chavez, Peter Longofono, Heikki Huotari, Taneum Bambrick, Jim Warner, Joe Milazzo, C.T. McGaha, Lauren Loftis, Ryan Mills, and A.M. O'Malley. Essays by Isabelle Davis and Kathryn Nuernberger. Hybrid work by Marlin M. Jenkins and Anne Riesenberg.

Heavy Feather Review Vol. 7

Wurth, Erika T.

Polders, Claire

Gordon, Noah Eli

Michalski, Jen

United States

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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