Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Biography

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of three books of poetry. Her nature-essay collection is forthcoming from Milkweed. She is poetry editor of Orion and is the Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi’s MFA program.

http://www.aimeenez.com/

See Work

POETRY / Winter 2017

The Falling: Three Who Have Intentionally Plunged Over Niagara Falls With the Hope of Surviving

By Aimee Nezhukumatathil

1. Annie Edson Taylor (1901)

Don’t hate me because I sent the cat first.
Darling, desperate times require—
well, they require.
I told the little girl who owned the cat 
I’d buy her a new one.

POETRY / Winter 2004

Touchpool

By Aimee Nezhukumatathil
POETRY / Winter 2004

By the Light of A Single Worm

By Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Land snails the size of hockey pucks
slime a shimmer along craggy roots. A mantis
wipes its eyes with her forelegs like she’s taking