Poetry Publications
Normal War
Chapbook
“In this sunlit, spirited debut chapbook, Gwenn Nusbaum combines her psychoanalyst’s savvy and her poet’s instincts. ‘Love is not orderly,’ she writes, ‘No one its prodigy.’ Her goals as a poet—to be lucid, to be candid, and to adhere to the value of dreams—are achieved again and again as she explores the Normal War that is the condition of our contemporary life. Tensions between feeling and thought, inhibition and desire, romantic attachment and the solo journey find illumination through her lens. Of our conflicts, she makes an art.”
— Molly Peacock
Reviews
Poetry Publications
— “Chartreuse Socks” – Swamp Ape Review (2024)
— “Rowing My Grandmother Into Morning” – Lips, Number 57/58 (2023)
— “Coloring Suburbia, 1967” – Evening Street Review, (2022)
— “Notes from an Eye Exam” – Pink Panther Magazine (published in conjunction with International Women’s Day, 2022)
— “A Date With Death” – Brief Wilderness (2021) – Read
— “Nights in August” – Cumberland River Review (2021) – Read
— “Fat” – The Phoenix (2021) – Read
— “Do Not Feed the Pigeons” – The Penmen Review (2021) – Read
— “Orbit of Tongues” – Plainsongs (2021)
— “Crestwood Retirement Villa (Dining Room)” – Edison Literary Review (2020)
— “Panic (Phase One)” – Voices de la Luna (2020)
— “Wife, Winter,” “Dawn Sojourner,” “Fall Planting,” “Veiled Moon,” and “Daylight Savings Ends” – Verse-Virtual (2015)
— “Rare Visitor” – Diverse Voices Quarterly (2015) – Read
— “Rowing My Grandmother Into Morning” – Lips, Number 57/58 (2023)
— “Coloring Suburbia, 1967” – Evening Street Review, (2022)
— “Notes from an Eye Exam” – Pink Panther Magazine (published in conjunction with International Women’s Day, 2022)
— “A Date With Death” – Brief Wilderness (2021) – Read
— “Nights in August” – Cumberland River Review (2021) – Read
— “Fat” – The Phoenix (2021) – Read
— “Do Not Feed the Pigeons” – The Penmen Review (2021) – Read
— “Orbit of Tongues” – Plainsongs (2021)
— “Crestwood Retirement Villa (Dining Room)” – Edison Literary Review (2020)
— “Panic (Phase One)” – Voices de la Luna (2020)
— “Wife, Winter,” “Dawn Sojourner,” “Fall Planting,” “Veiled Moon,” and “Daylight Savings Ends” – Verse-Virtual (2015)
— “Rare Visitor” – Diverse Voices Quarterly (2015) – Read
— “Osprey Nest” – The Griffin (2015)
— “The Bee And The Lily” – Diverse Voices Quarterly (2014)
— “In Her Hive” – Salamander (2014)
— “Lines” – The Healing Muse (2014) – Listen
— “Desire Amid Triage” and “Normal War” – Schuylkill Valley Journal (2013)
— “What Do You Want?” – Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2012), Gradiva Nomination – Read
— “Hospital, Spring” – Rattle (2010) – Read
— “Ode to a Storm” – Louisville Review (2010), Pushcart Prize Nomination
— “Trick of Light” – Passager (2008), Honorable Mention, the 2008 Passager Poetry Prize
— “Woman in the Ward” – Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2006) – Read
— “Mantra” – New England Writers’ Network (2005)
— “The Estate” – Nomad’s Choir (2005)
— “Skiing with My Father” – Confrontation (2002)
— “The Bee And The Lily” – Diverse Voices Quarterly (2014)
— “In Her Hive” – Salamander (2014)
— “Lines” – The Healing Muse (2014) – Listen
— “Desire Amid Triage” and “Normal War” – Schuylkill Valley Journal (2013)
— “What Do You Want?” – Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2012), Gradiva Nomination – Read
— “Hospital, Spring” – Rattle (2010) – Read
— “Ode to a Storm” – Louisville Review (2010), Pushcart Prize Nomination
— “Trick of Light” – Passager (2008), Honorable Mention, the 2008 Passager Poetry Prize
— “Woman in the Ward” – Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2006) – Read
— “Mantra” – New England Writers’ Network (2005)
— “The Estate” – Nomad’s Choir (2005)
— “Skiing with My Father” – Confrontation (2002)