SELECTED WORK
POEMS ONLINE
Six poems from In the Field Between Us, the Academy of American Poets (originally published in Tin House)
“Dear Maker,” the Cincinnati Review
Six poems from In the Field Between Us, the New York Times
Six poems from In the Field Between Us, diode poetry journal
“Panopticon,” The National Poetry Review.
“Chamber,” “Where We Are,” and “Prisoner’s Tubal Ligation with the Archangel Gabriel,” The Los Angeles Review.
“Prisoner’s Cinema with Saints Catherine and Lucy,” Guernica Magazine.
“Tapetum Lucidum,” “The Difference Between Life and Death,” and “War Fugue,” Public Pool.
“Look How Dark the Mountain Is,” “Another Kind of Clay,” and “In the Long Grass Kneeling,” New Orleans Review.
“Something Clinical,” and “Lore,” Cider Press Review.
“Open my body,” and “Self-Portrait as Marshland,” Diode Poetry Journal.
“Bestiary,” “On the Physiology of the Heart,” and Morphine,” The The Poetry Blog.
“Preparing the Animal,” winner of the 2013 American Literary Review Poetry Prize.
ESSAYS ONLINE
“Our Lady of the Stairs,” The Kenyon Review
“I Am Telling You What Happened To Me,” Guernica
“Proof, Matter, Stars,” co-written with Molly McCully Brown, Image Journal
“Lost (and Found) in Translation,” part of a New York Times Disability Series collaborative essay conversation called “Explaining Our Bodies, Finding Ourselves,” with Molly McCully Brown.
“Day Surgery or Toward a Big Unsubtle Ars Poetica,” Contributors’ Marginalia Series, 32 Poems.
“Paternalia,” The Rumpus.
“Off Record,” The Rumpus.
POEMS IN PRINT
Six Poems from In the Field Between Us, Tin House
“Dear Maker” 1 & 2, the Cincinnati Review
“Confinement Prayer” and “Playing Possum,” Pleiades.
“At Pitchess Detention Center” and “Cell Watch: Strip Cell,” Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Spring 2017.
“Prisoner’s Cinema with News from Home,” “Interrogation Instructions: Flood,” “War Pastoral,” and “At Holmesburg,” Crazyhorse.
“Prisoners’ Parable of the Lamp” and “Prisoners’ Parable of the Flood,” 32 Poems Magazine. Featured on Verse Daily.
“Premortem,” The Journal.
“Horse Broke Clear,” Beloit Poetry Journal.
“My Father Dreams of Horses (iii),” Sycamore Review.
“My Father Dreams of Horses,” and “My Father Dreams of Horses (ii),” Ninth Letter.
“Notes to the Body,” “Letter to My Pre-Op Self as Etiological Myth,” “Letter to My Pre-Op Self as Marionette,” “Self-Portrait as a Stand of Willows,” and “If You Come to the Sea and You Must Cross,” in Southern Indiana Review.
Listen to Susannah:
INTERVIEWS
The Poetry Foundation Podcast: “Wild at the Root: A Conversation with Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison”
The Rumpus: “This Huge, Colossal Joy: A Conversation with Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison”
The Adroit Journal: “The Performative Structure: A Conversation With Susannah Nevison”
The Cloudy House: “Susannah Nevison On Teratology”
The Missouri Review: Unbound Book Festival Author Interview
Pet Poetics with Ruth Awad: “Susannah Nevison: Re-Naming the Body”
REVIEWS
In the Field Between Us (Persea Books, 2020)
Publisher’s Weekly
EcoTheo Review
Drizzle Review
Lethal Theater (OSU Press, 2019)
Full Stop
Valparaiso Poetry Review
Teratology (Persea Books, 2015)