Nancy Mitchell

Nancy Mitchell’s first volume of poetry, The Near Surround, was published by Four Way Books in 2002. Grief Hut, 2009 was published by Cervena Barva Press. She lives in Salisbury Maryland, and teaches Creative Writing in the English department at Salisbury University. Her poems have appeared in Agni, the Marlboro Review, Salt Hill Journal, and Poetry Daily, among others, and are anthologized in Last Call published by Sarabande Books.

About her painting, Taos:

"I'm intrigued with the life ordinary objects take on when freed of their contexts, as in this instance, the framing/freeing image of a drainage pipe. I'm equally intrigued, as a poet and a visual artist, with the underlying structure of surfaces and matter as they are revealed, transformed and often abstracted by the elements of time; flaking paint, faded by sun, eroded by wind, can reveal layers beneath, as can metal as it oxidizes and water and its various mutations.

My paintings/poems also continue the investigation of mutable surfaces and less mutable underlying structure."