Susan Smith Nash is the author of several books of poetry, short fiction, plays, and translations of Spanish & Guarani poetry and prose.  The works on this site are works in progress, begun in July 2000 during the Summer Literary Seminars, organized by Mikhail Iossel and held at Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia.  Nash lives in Norman, Oklahoma.  This site includes later work (through February 2002, based on travels, study, reading, and the imagination.

north africa poems

• Sahara   NEW
  
• Window  NEW
  
• Night Sequence, I
  
• Night Sequence, II
  
• Night Sequence, III
  
• Night Sequence, IV
  
• Twists of Roses
  
• Matins
  
• Day Sequence, I
  
• Day Sequence, II
  
• Nightfall
  
• Palace
  
• Gaudy Raw Moth
  
• Night, Again
  
• Summing-Up
  
• Night Storms   NEW
  
• Night Storms--2  NEW
  
• Night Storms--3  NEW
  
• Night Tides  NEW
  
• Sublimation   NEW
  

• Karabakh  NEW
  
• Moon Over the Caspian
  
• Nakhichevan
  
• Absheron
  
• Ship of Dreams
  
• Five Times into the Prayer
  
• Sheki Silk
  
• Lenkoran:  On the Iranian Border
  
• Summer Monsoons
  
• Sumgait
  
• Veil
  

• Rain
  
• Cathedral of the Spilled Blood
  
• Poem for Independence Day
  

• Varieties of Infinity (In the Form of Shoes)
  
• Home of the Artist
  
• Bay of Finland
  
• Tomatoes & Cucumbers
  
• Amnesia
  
• Lake Swimming
  
• Canoeing
  
• Hunger
  
• Soft Tissue Injury
  
• Most (the bridge)
  
• Pushkin House
  
• Kazansky Cathedral
  
• Russian Wallpaper       
  
• Mad Sequence I   
  
• Mad Sequence II
  
• Settling
  
• Shashlik