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Maria Nazos

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in Joliet, The United States

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Poet, translator, and memoirist Maria Nazos has been published in The New Yorker, TriQuarterly, World Literature Today, The Columbia Review, The Denver Quarterly, The Mid-American Review, American Life in Poetry, The Greensboro Review, The North American Review, The Tampa Review, Anomaly, The Florida Review, The Southern Humanities Review, The New Ohio Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere.

A Pushcart nominee, her work has appeared in renowned anthologies including What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump, (Northwestern University Press, 2020) edited by Martín Espada, and Nasty Woman, An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse, edited by Grace Bauer and Julie Kane (Lost Horse Press, 2017). Maria is the author of ...more

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I am...speechless and honored that PULSE, forthcoming by Omnidawn Publishing, was selected by Ms. Magazine's "Reads for the Rest of Us: The Best Poetry of 2025 and 2026." I am thrilled to be in the company of Ada Limón, Layli LongSoldier, Jennifer Jean, Patricia Smith, Ashley M. Jones, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil.

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	What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump by Martín Espada (Editor), Julia Alvarez (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Doug Anderson (Contributor) 4.35 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Hymn That Meanders 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	TulipTree Review Spring/Summer 2022 Wild Women: Issue #11 by Jennifer Top (Editor), Branden Boyer-White, Ashley Michelle C. 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Slow Horizon That Breathes by Dimitra Kotoula, Maria Nazos (Goodreads Author) (Translator), A.E. Stallings (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

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