Rachel Nelson is a Cave Canem fellow
and a graduate of the University of Michigan’s MFA program,
where she won a Hopwood prize for playwriting.
Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in
The Adroit Journal, the museum of americana, Muzzle Magazine,
Pleiades, Thrush, and elsewhere.
She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Publications


A Hard-Edged Glow, Ecotone

Our Bodies and A Confederate Soldier Causes an Enslaved Woman to Drop Her Meal, The Shore

Diseases of American Slavery (the desire), Diseases of American Slavery (the earth), Tar Baby in Love (Love cannot be molded), Tar Baby Will Return to the Riverside, Michigan Quarterly Review

When Tar Baby Eats the Moon and Cream, The Adroit Journal

Granny, with Pica, Muzzle Magazine

— Tar Baby: and: — Brer Fox:, Pleiades

Tar Baby Lineage, Tar Baby and His Other Names, and Tar Baby Dreams of Home, Superstition Review

Tar Baby To-Do List and Tar Baby in Love (Tell me how), Thrush

–Mother:, –Daughter:, and Adeline and the Hum, the museum of americana

The Party, Radar

Brer Rabbit in Love (In love, I am soft), Mantis

Next and Fable, Huizache

The Crowd and Honey, pinwheel

Makeup, pluck!

Portrait of My Mother on the Bus, Hartskill Review

April, Little Patuxent Review

Erasers, The Atlas Review

The Heat in the Belly, Smartish Pace

The ground and The spell, Muzzle Magazine

Grand, Callaloo

My Mother’s Tornado and The Tire Plant is Struck by Lightning, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South