NANCY KAY PETERSON
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Freelance editor, writer & poet


​"Selling the Family" and/or "Belated Remembrance"
Finishing Line Press

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"BELATED REMEMBRANCE"
​This chapbook tells the story of my great-great uncle Arne Kulterstad (1825-1902).  In 1859, he was convicted of murder in Valdres, Norway, and sentenced to death.  His life was spared due to an editorial campaign spearheaded by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Bj
ørnstjerne  Bjørnson .  Arne was imprisoned in Akershus Castle in Oslo.  After 20 years, Bjørnson and others, including one of Arne's daughters, secured his release and he was exiled to Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. 
​Sample poems from "Belated Remembrance"

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"SELLING THE FAMILY"
This chapbook shares my reflections as the sole surviving family member sorting several generations of belongings for a final estate auction, a quintessential and painful experience in rural America.  I see childhood treasures tossed together for bundled bids,  my father's WWII memorabilia appraised, gifts I had given laid out for re-sale.   Memories -- never to be shared with anyone else who remembers them too -- rise and vanish.  While the story is melancholy, it ends, as it must, on a thin note of joy.                                                                                                                   Sample poems from "Selling the Family"

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"WE WERE HERE"
This yet-to-be-published chapbook is a collection of character studies, a series of portraits of strangers and a few relatives (real and imagined).  The title “We Were Here” is a portion of a line in one of the poems.  It celebrates (or mourns depending on one’s perspective) our existence and transience on this earth and our hope to somehow be remembered. ​​​
Sample poems from "We Were Here"​
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"PROSE POEMS PERSONAS"
This yet-to-published chapbook is a collection of prose poems, an art form that even its most noted practitioners are unable to define.  Often humorous, surrealistic, and/or sarcastic, prose poems may describe an action, a moment or a sense of place.  These are a collection of prose poems that focus on people or stories about people, including myself.
Sample poems from "Prose Poems Personas"
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