Nancy L. Meyer she/her avid cyclist, community activist, grandmother of five lives in the unceded Ohlone lands of the San Francisco Bay Area. Pushcart 2020 and Best of the Net 2023 nominee. Published in 9 anthologies and over 50 journals including: McNeese, Laurel, Sugar House, and Colorado Reviews, Tupelo Quarterly, Feral, Museum of Americana. Recipient of a Hedgebrook Residency. First full-length collection, The Stoop and The Steeple, will be published in Fall 2024 by Frog On The Moon Press.
The Stoop and The Steeple
The Stoop and The Steeple weaves reflections on Meyer’s first marriage to a mixed-race Jamaican with the discovery that her New England ancestors were enslavers.
This hybrid work traces idealism, ruptures, rage and hope across generations. Meyer’s poems probe her responsibility, as a white woman, for the complexities of race and power in her own family.
“What a moving and beautiful collection. I almost typed “enthralling” (which seems a problematic word in this enslavement context) but once I finally started reading
Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Professor of American Studies and English at Amherst College
I needed to keep on to the end—it is a very rare thing for a collection of poems to have that sense of urgent, developing arc, as well as all the pleasures of formal variety and rich surprising imagery and language.
It is a wonderful and brave book, alive with seeking.”
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