Will Nixon's poetry books are Love in the City of Grudges (FootHills Publishing) and My Late Mother as a Ruffed Grouse (FootHills Publishing) as well as the chapbooks When I Had It Made (Pudding House) and The Fish Are Laughing (Pavement Saw). With Michael Perkins he co-authored of Walking Woodstock: Journeys into the Wild Heart of America's Most Famous Small Town (Bushwhack Books), a local bestseller. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and listed in Best American Essays 2004.
"Will grew up in the Connecticut suburbs, spent his young adulthood in Hoboken and Manhattan, then moved to a Catskills log cabin in 1996 complete with a wood stove and mice. For years, he wrote environmental journalism, then turned to poetry and personal essays. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and listed in Best American Essays 2004. He now lives in Woodstock, NY with a wall thermostat for heat, but still can't get rid of the mice."
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Illustration by Carol Zaloom
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I admire the way plants die:
milkweed pods burst with silken hair, mugwort patches collapse like burnt chocolate, mullein stands tall, black, and blind. And now a yellow sulpher butterfly hurtles by on an ocean breeze— the thrill ride of its life over weeds at Far Rockaway Beach.
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