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Nancy Bevilaqua

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Memoir, Poetry, Spirituality

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Nancy Bevilaqua was born in New York City. After studying English Literature and Creative Writing at Reed College and New York University, she worked for ten years as a caseworker and counselor for people with AIDS, the homeless, and people in drug treatment programs.

She has also worked as a freelance writer, specializing in travel; her articles, essays, and photography have appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Coastal Living, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, several in-flight magazines, and many other publications.

After a sixteen-year hiatus, Nancy began writing poetry again. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from West Branch, Whiskey Island, Tupelo Quarterly, Hubbub, MadHat Lit, Juked, Hermeneutic Chaos, Tinderbox, Rust+Moth, ...more

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New Book of Poems: Gelyana

I've been laying low for quite some time, and I've moved (thank God!) from Florida back to New Jersey. A lot has changed, and life is good. Although I'm not writing poetry these days, I'm trying to learn how to play the guitar, and hope to set some of my already-written poems to music (I've managed to do part of one; my musician son pointed out that it uses all minor chords, which, to me, seems ju Read more of this blog post »

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	Holding Breath: A Memoir of AIDS' Wildfire Days 3.62 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2012 — 4 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
	Gospel of the Throwaway Daughter: Poems really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	A Rough Deliverance: Collected Poems 1983-2013 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013 — 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 Sonnets by Shinjini Bhattacharjee (Editor), E. Kristin Anderson (Goodreads Author), Sandra Marchetti (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2018	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
	Kentucky Review 2016 by Robert S. King (Editor), Dick Bentley (Contributor), Roy Bentley (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2017 — 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
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Still the Dawn: Poems and Ballads

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Nancy’s Quotes

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

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“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

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“I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.”
― Tim Burton

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“And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing...”
― Tim Burton, The Nightmare Before Christmas

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¡ POETRY ! — 22600 members — last activity Dec 10, 2025 02:19PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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message 10: by Nancy

Feb 25, 2015 11:45AM

Traveller wrote: "Your profile had me at "photography - National Geographic" already, and the rest was icing.

Thanks for the request, Nancy, I might have asked myself, if you hadn't. :)"

Beat you to it! Thank you for accepting (and I actually did writing for National Geographic Traveler--I wish that my photography were of that calibre!). Looking forward to getting to know you. :)

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message 9: by Traveller

Feb 25, 2015 11:43AM

Your profile had me at "photography - National Geographic" already, and the rest was icing.

Thanks for the request, Nancy, I might have asked myself, if you hadn't. :)

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message 8: by Nancy

Aug 01, 2014 01:41PM

Jan wrote: "Love your quotes, Nancy! Thanks for accepting my friend invitation."

Of course, Jan! Thanks for this. (The quotes are fun, but I think I may have overdone it at this point!)

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message 7: by Jan

Aug 01, 2014 12:48PM

Love your quotes, Nancy! Thanks for accepting my friend invitation.

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message 6: by Nancy

Jun 29, 2013 07:15AM

Robin wrote: "I am very happy to be friends with you, Nancy.

Wishing you peace and happiness and good inspirations!

Best wishes,
Robin"

Thanks for your request, and same to you!

Nancy

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message 5: by Robin

Jun 29, 2013 06:58AM

I am very happy to be friends with you, Nancy.

Wishing you peace and happiness and good inspirations!

Best wishes,
Robin

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message 4: by Nancy

Jun 18, 2013 06:18AM

13, yes. 26? Well, my ex's b'day is 10/26, so there are several ways to look at that!

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message 3: by boekverslaafde

Jun 18, 2013 03:17AM

Nancy wrote: "Thanks, Ashley! 13's always been a good number for me, so we'll see what happens! :)"

I found this seriously funny, because 13 & 26 are my lucky numbers...
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message 2: by Nancy

Mar 01, 2013 06:14AM

Thanks, Ashley! 13's always been a good number for me, so we'll see what happens! :)

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message 1: by Ashlei

Feb 28, 2013 06:52PM

CONGRATS!!!!!!

On getting so many good reviews on amazon
13!! To be exact at this time... Well you books a great successes girl..
You should be proud.. I know I am

Well hope to talk to you soon. Keep going you got a gift.

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