Nin Andrews is the author of sixteen collections of poetry. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Ploughshares, Agni, The Paris Review, Best American Poetry, Great American Prose Poems, The Best American Erotic Poems. Her poetry has been translated into Turkish, performed in Prague, and anthologized in England, Australia, and Mongolia. Her collection, Son of a Bird, a Memoir in Prose Poems, was published in 2025.
You said you couldn’t put your mouth on mine. It reminded you of death, of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Of germs. Contamination.
I think of silence as a relief and the key to survival. It’s the delicious white space in my life. The emptiness at the bottom of the page after a prose poem.
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