Nick Flynn  (b. 1960) LINKS Poetry Daily Features Nick Flynn http://www.poems.com/someefly.htm Poetry Daily highlights Nick Flynn’s book Some Ether, reprinting its jacket photo; it also has quotes by Flynn regarding the collection; a brief biography; and “Bag of Mice,” a selection from the book. Welcome to Ploughshares http://www.pshares.org/Authors/authorDetails.cfm?prmAuthorID=494 Ploughshares, the highly celebrated literary journal, provides links to the four Flynn poems printed in their magazine. Nick Flynn “Wild with Dandelions and Roses” http://www.wmich.edu/thirdcoast/flynn_wild.html Third Coast, a literary magazine published biannually by the English Department at Western Michigan University reprints Flynn’s poem “Wild with Dandelions & Roses” on this site. Painted Bride Quarterly—Nick Flynn http://www.webdelsol.com/pbq/issues/60/flynn.html Painted Bride Quarterly, an independent literary magazine, highlights Nick Flynn’s poem “Listenerland” here. Nick Flynn http://www.aboutface.org/HTMLPages/PostRoad/Issue_1/Poetry/flynn.html The organization About Face, which sponsors the literary magazine, Post Road, published Flynn’s poems “Amber” and “Statuary” in its premier issue. BIOGRAPHY Flynn has worked at an odd variety of jobs, including ship’s captain, electrician, and caseworker for homeless adults. He is a member of Columbia University’s Writing Project and spends significant time in New York City public schools introducing young people to poetry. With Shirley McPhillips, he authored A Note Slipped Under the Door: Teaching from Poems We Love (2000)—a teachers’ guidebook that explores the benefits of using poetry in the classroom. His first book of poems, Some Ether (2000), won two awards, and he has won fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, and the MacDowell and Millay Colonies. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.