Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents Claudine Nash

Winner of the 2020 Blue Light Book Award for her poetry collectionBeginner's Guide to Loss in the Multiverse(Blue Light Press, 2020),Claudine Nash is a psychologist and award-winning poet who writes extensively about loss, healing and the liberation of releasing the past. Her other collections include the full-length booksThe Wild Essential(Kelsay Books: Aldrich Press, 2017)andParts per Trillion (Kelsay Books: Aldrich Press, 2016) as well as the chapbooksThings for Which You Thirst (Weasel Press, 2020) and TheProblem with Loving Ghosts(Finishing Line Press, 2014).She has also edited three poetry anthologies:Epiphanies and Late Realizations of Love(Transcendent Zero Press, 2019),Destigmatized(Madness Muse Press, 2017) andIn So Many Words(Madness Muse Press, 2016). Widely published, her work has been nominated forthe Pulitzer, Pushcart and Best of the Net Anthology Prizes and has earned numerous literarydistinctions including prizes from such publications and artistic organizations as Artists EmbassyInternational, Thirty West Publishing House, The Song Is..., and Eye on Life Magazine among others.