Nick Flynn

Biography

Nick Flynn’s most recent book is Low (Graywolf, 2023). Other recent books include: This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire (Norton, 2020); and Stay: threads, collaborations, conversations (ZE Books, 2020), which documents twenty-five years of his collaborations with artists, filmmakers, and composers. (Photo credit: Alix Lambert)

See Work

POETRY / Fall 2023

Water Cycle

By Nick Flynn

All the rain in the world

is falling, making
a door you can’t open.

POETRY / Fall 2023

The Space Between Trees

By Nick Flynn

It isn’t the trees but the space

between the trees,

POETRY / Fall 2023

Catacomb

By Nick Flynn
POETRY / Fall 2023

Bonfire

By Nick Flynn

This is the year strangers
will say terrible things

about you 

POETRY / Fall 2023

They Are Falling All Around Me

By Nick Flynn

We made a dance of all the ways

we’d hurt our bodies.

POETRY / Summer 2019

The Ethics of the Third Person

By Nick Flynn

I am the man in the play-
ground, the cord of his earbuds

clenched in his teeth
(bit in a horse’s mouth)