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Nawal’s poems appear or are forthcoming in Bayou Magazine, Fence, Texas Review, AMP: Hofstra’s Journal of Digital Literature, Grist Journal (a finalist in their 2017 ProForma contest), By&By Poetry, Progenitor Art & Literary Journal, Rogue Agent, and The Elephants.net. Her poem “That I remember” was nominated for Sundress Publications' 2017 Best of the Net. Her thesis manuscript, A Hemmed Remnant was a finalist in the 2018 Ron Sillerman Prize for African Poets by the University of Nebraska Press. Before immigrating to the USA and landing in Colorado twenty years ago, Nawal lived in Hamburg, London, and Hawaii and grew up in Accra and East Beirut. In the past she has taught secondary English, authored high school curriculum, graduate level professional development courses, and was the instructional coordinator of eLearning in a Colorado school district. Nawal holds an MFA in Poetry from the Mile-High MFA at Regis University, a BA in English with secondary education from University of Northern Colorado, and an MA in Curriculum and Instruction with technology. Nawal lives in Boulder county with her children, husband, and recently adopted beagles. Follow her on Twitter at @nawalnader or visit nawalnader.com.
Recommended Books
Andrea Rexilius, Eric Baus and J.Michael Martinez are her go-to poets. At her side is always a copy of a Rexilius work and she is currently rereading and taking her time with To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation. Her reading playlist also includes (on repeat), Baus’s The To Sound, Martinez’s In the Garden of the Bridehouse and Khadijah Queen’s Conduit.
In addition, she recommends:
Kith, Divya Victor
I love artists: new and selected poems, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Nox, Anne Carson
Hymn for the Black Terrific: Poems, Kiki Petrosino
Curves to the Apple, Rosmarie Waldrop
Whereas, Layli Long Soldier
Dandarians: poems, Lee Ann Roripaugh
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, Mary Ruefle
39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance, Matthew Goulish
Poetics of Relation, Édouard Glissant
Recommended Books
Andrea Rexilius, Eric Baus and J.Michael Martinez are her go-to poets. At her side is always a copy of a Rexilius work and she is currently rereading and taking her time with To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation. Her reading playlist also includes (on repeat), Baus’s The To Sound, Martinez’s In the Garden of the Bridehouse and Khadijah Queen’s Conduit.
In addition, she recommends:
Kith, Divya Victor
I love artists: new and selected poems, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Nox, Anne Carson
Hymn for the Black Terrific: Poems, Kiki Petrosino
Curves to the Apple, Rosmarie Waldrop
Whereas, Layli Long Soldier
Dandarians: poems, Lee Ann Roripaugh
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, Mary Ruefle
39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance, Matthew Goulish
Poetics of Relation, Édouard Glissant