Geoffrey Nutter

Bio
Reviews
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Audio/Video
Current Readings

Geoffrey Nutter was born in Sacramento, and attended San Francisco State University and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He is the author of The Rose of January (forthcoming from Wave Books, 2013), Christopher Sunset (Wave Books, 2010), Water’s Leaves & Other Poems (Winner of the 2004 Verse Press Prize) and A Summer Evening, winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize (Center for Literary Publishing, 2001). His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 1997, The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries and Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Poems by Younger American Poets. He currently teaches in New York City, where he lives with his wife, daughter and son.
Reviews
“This man is, without a doubt, one of the finest young poets writing in America.” —Regan Good, The New York Observer

“Thank goodness for Geoffrey Nutter, whose poetry seems to be powered equally by sunlight, virtue, wonder, and humility.” —Nate Pritts, Rain Taxi

“Nutter is a poet whose hand rests on the rudder, but who is also confident enough to let his poem-ships follow the current underneath. It’s a movement similar to the way dreams progress...where the propulsive force of associative imagery leads each poem forward down the page.” —Michelle Taransky, Time Out Chicago

“Geoffrey Nutter writes about things—or so it seems. Poems about strawberries, battleships, and elevators begin on track and morph into burgeoning blossoms. The poems unfurl smoothly and astonishingly, 'winding toward a pinnacle.'” —Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, The Brooklyn Rail

Reviews of books by Geoffrey Nutter

The Rose of January

Christopher Sunset

Water's Leaves and Other Poems
Poems
- “Rapprochement” (in the Iowa Review)
- Three poems (in Octopus)
- “The Real World and the Dream World” (in Gulf Coast)
- Three poems (in The Awl)
- “These Great Sentinels” (in Augury Books)
- “Biography” (in Petri Press)
-Watch Nutter reading at the 2nd Annual New York Poetry Festival
-Reading for MAKE Magazine at the Mission Creek Festival Lit Crawl
Thursday MAY 7, 2013 7:00pm

Geoffrey Nutter will read at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

15 South Dubuque Street Iowa City, IA