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“Moon Lake” 2015, by Molly Lamb. Courtesy Rick Wester Fine Art, New York

April 14, 2016

Molasses

By Nancy K. Pearson

2016 04 13 Pearson poem

Nancy K. Pearson reads “Molasses”

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Nancy K. Pearson

Nancy K. Pearson’s second book, The Whole by Contemplation of a Single Bone, received the Poets Out Loud Prize and will be released this spring from Fordham University Press. She and her partner, Elizabeth Winston, live in Maryland.

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