Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Nancy Murphy / Writer writings and performances by Nancy Murphy ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://nancymurphywriter.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Three New Poems Published in Jackdaw Review](https://nancymurphywriter.com/three-new-poems-published-in-jackdaw-review/) - Nancy Murphy is a featured reader in Season 8, Episode 4 of "Eat the Storms," a poetry podcast based in Dublin. - [Myrtle Avenue](https://nancymurphywriter.com/myrtle-avenue/) - [The Fallen](https://nancymurphywriter.com/the-fallen/) - [Barrington Avenue, Near Sunset](https://nancymurphywriter.com/barrington-avenue-near-sunset/) - [Nancy Murphy to Read at Village Poets Presents on March 22](https://nancymurphywriter.com/nancy-murphy-to-read-at-village-poets-presents-on-march-22/) - Nancy Murphy is a featured reader in Season 8, Episode 4 of "Eat the Storms," a poetry podcast based in Dublin. - [Two Poems Published in Schuylkill Valley Journal](https://nancymurphywriter.com/two-poems-published-in-schuylkill-valley-journal/) - Nancy Murphy is a featured reader in Season 8, Episode 4 of "Eat the Storms," a poetry podcast based in Dublin. - [Duende](https://nancymurphywriter.com/duende/) - [Wordlessly](https://nancymurphywriter.com/wordlessly/) - [Nectar](https://nancymurphywriter.com/nectar/) - [When Love Comes to Town](https://nancymurphywriter.com/when-love-comes-to-town/) - [Nancy Murphy's New Poem Published in Telephone 2025](https://nancymurphywriter.com/nancy-murphys-new-poem-published-in-telephone-2025/) - Nancy Murphy is a featured reader in Season 8, Episode 4 of "Eat the Storms," a poetry podcast based in Dublin. - [Nancy Murphy Named Judge of Poetry Super Highway Contest](https://nancymurphywriter.com/nancy-murphy-named-judge-of-poetry-super-highway-contest/) - Nancy Murphy is a featured reader in Season 8, Episode 4 of "Eat the Storms," a poetry podcast based in Dublin. - [Nancy Murphy Published in Anacapa Review](https://nancymurphywriter.com/nancy-murphy-published-in-anacapa-review/) - Nancy Murphy is a featured reader in Season 8, Episode 4 of "Eat the Storms," a poetry podcast based in Dublin. - [The 2021 Pantone Color of the Year Was Dual: ULTIMATE GRAY + ILLUMINATING](https://nancymurphywriter.com/the-2021-pantone-color-of-the-year/) - [Nancy Murphy Poetry Included in Altadena Poetry Anthology](https://nancymurphywriter.com/nancy-murphy-poetry-included-in-altadena-poetry-anthology/) - Nancy Murphy is a featured reader in Season 8, Episode 4 of "Eat the Storms," a poetry podcast based in Dublin. - [Not/My Story](https://nancymurphywriter.com/not-my-story/) - [Unsung](https://nancymurphywriter.com/unsung/) - [What Is Held](https://nancymurphywriter.com/what-is-held/) - [Cultural Daily Publishes Two Poems by Nancy Murphy](https://nancymurphywriter.com/cultural-daily-publishes-two-poems-by-nancy-murphy/) - Nancy Murphy is a featured reader in Season 8, Episode 4 of "Eat the Storms," a poetry podcast based in Dublin. - [Gyroscope Review Publishes Murphy's "Heat as a Sentence"](https://nancymurphywriter.com/nancy-murphy-published-in-gyroscope-review/) - Nancy Murphy is a featured reader in Season 8, Episode 4 of "Eat the Storms," a poetry podcast based in Dublin. - [Nancy Murphy's Poem "Hindsight" Published in Poetry Ink Anthology](https://nancymurphywriter.com/nancy-murphy-published-in-poetry-ink-anthology/) - Nancy Murphy is a featured reader in Season 8, Episode 4 of "Eat the Storms," a poetry podcast based in Dublin. - ["Night Chronicles" Ranked 6th in Poetry Super Highway Contest](https://nancymurphywriter.com/night-chronicles-ranked-6th-in-poetry-super-highway-contest/) - Nancy Murphy is a featured reader in Season 8, Episode 4 of "Eat the Storms," a poetry podcast based in Dublin. - [Heat as a Sentence](https://nancymurphywriter.com/heat-as-a-sentence/) - [Hindsight](https://nancymurphywriter.com/hindsight/) - [Nancy Murphy to Read in "Roar Shack" at Travel Time Mart](https://nancymurphywriter.com/nancy-murphy-to-read-in-roar-shack-at-travel-time-mart-in-echo-park/) - Nancy Murphy is a featured reader in Season 8, Episode 4 of "Eat the Storms," a poetry podcast based in Dublin. - [Nancy Murphy Reads in Dublin-Based Podcast, "Eat the Storms"](https://nancymurphywriter.com/reading-in-dublin-based-podcast-eat-the-storms/) - Nancy Murphy is a featured reader in Season 8, Episode 4 of "Eat the Storms," a poetry podcast based in Dublin. - [“Poem that Wants to Inflict Harm” Published in Anacapa Review ](https://nancymurphywriter.com/poem-that-wants-to-inflict-harm-published-in-anacapa-review/) - [Reading in Long-Running Series, "Library Girl"  1/14/24 ](https://nancymurphywriter.com/reading-in-long-running-series-library-girl-1-14-24/) - [Poem that Wants to Inflict Harm](https://nancymurphywriter.com/poem-that-wants-to-inflict-harm/) - [Nancy To be Featured Oct. 8 in Monthly Online Series "Well-Versed Words"](https://nancymurphywriter.com/nancy-to-be-featured-oct-8-in-monthly-online-series-well-versed-words/) - [The Space Carved by the Sharpness of Your Absence Reviewed in Cultural Daily](https://nancymurphywriter.com/the-space-carved-by-the-sharpness-of-your-absence-reviewed/) - [Nancy Invited to Read at Claremont Series](https://nancymurphywriter.com/nancy-invited-to-read-at-claremont-series/) - [Poetry Book Published](https://nancymurphywriter.com/poetry-book-published/) - [Poetry Book to be Published December 2022 ](https://nancymurphywriter.com/poetry-collection-to-be-published-gyroscope-press-november-2022/) - [Featured Poet at Cobalt Poets  9/20/22 ](https://nancymurphywriter.com/featured-poet-at-cobalt-poets-9-20-22/) - ["A Piece of the Calm" Published by Blue Heron Review Fall 2022](https://nancymurphywriter.com/a-piece-of-the-calm-published-by-blue-heron-review-fall-2022/) - [Reading at Cobalt Poets, September 2022](https://nancymurphywriter.com/dimming-september-2022/) - [A Piece of the Calm](https://nancymurphywriter.com/a-piece-of-the-calm/) - ["Dimming" Published in SWWIM Every Day September 2022 ](https://nancymurphywriter.com/dimming-published-in-swwim-every-day-september-2022/) - [Dimming](https://nancymurphywriter.com/dimming/) - [Aurora Poetry Winner 
and Publication in July 2022 Issue](https://nancymurphywriter.com/aurora-poetry-winner/) - [How Isolation Is Like Summer](https://nancymurphywriter.com/how-isolation-is-like-summer/) - [Aftermath](https://nancymurphywriter.com/aftermath/) - ["Aftermath" Published in Montana Mouthful February 2022 ](https://nancymurphywriter.com/aftermath-published-in-montana-mouthful/) - [Featured Poet at Wednesday Night Poetry 11/3/21 ](https://nancymurphywriter.com/featured-poet-at-wednesday-night-poetry-11-3-21/) - [Talking Craft: Interview with Nancy Murphy at Cultural Daily  ](https://nancymurphywriter.com/talking-craft-interview-with-nancy-murphy-at-cultural-daily/) - [Sometimes a Wild Saint](https://nancymurphywriter.com/sometimes-a-wild-saint/) - ["Sometimes a Wild Saint" Published in Gyroscope Review ](https://nancymurphywriter.com/sometimes-a-wild-saint-published-in-gyroscope-review/) - [Field of View](https://nancymurphywriter.com/field-of-view/) - [Know My Tree](https://nancymurphywriter.com/know-my-tree/) - ["Know My Tree" Published in Telephone Exhibition](https://nancymurphywriter.com/know-my-tree-published-in-telephone/) - [Flappers Comedy Club August 2020](https://nancymurphywriter.com/flappers-comedy-club-august-2020/) - ["Anniversary" [recorded reading]](https://nancymurphywriter.com/anniversary-recorded-reading/) - ["Field of View" Published in The Ekphrastic Review](https://nancymurphywriter.com/field-of-view-published-in-the-ekphrastic-review/) - ["Father (Mother)" Published in Stoneboat Literary Journal](https://nancymurphywriter.com/father-mother-published-in-stoneboat-literary-journal/) - [Anniversary](https://nancymurphywriter.com/anniversary/) - [Father (Mother)](https://nancymurphywriter.com/father-mother/) - ["Anniversary" Published in Glassworks Magazine](https://nancymurphywriter.com/anniversary-published-in-glassworks-magazine/) - [How to Drive Off a Cliff](https://nancymurphywriter.com/how-to-drive-off-a-cliff/) - [Year of the Snake](https://nancymurphywriter.com/year-of-the-snake/) - some nights when they sleep - ["How to Drive Off a Cliff" Published
in Sheila-Na-Gig](https://nancymurphywriter.com/how-to-drive-off-a-cliff-published-in-sheila-na-gig/) - Sheila-Na-Gig online published "How to Drive Off a Cliff" in their Volume 3.3, Spring 2019 issue. - ["Pretty Funny Women" comedy show [video]](https://nancymurphywriter.com/pretty-funny-women-comedy-show-video/) - Nancy Murphy performs at the "Pretty Funny Women" comedy show. - [“Expressing Motherhood” [video]](https://nancymurphywriter.com/motherhood-video/) - Nancy Murphy performs at the "Motherhood." - [“Tasty Words”/Poetic License 2012 [video]](https://nancymurphywriter.com/poetic-license-tasty-words-video/) - Nancy Murphy performs at Poetic License/Tasty Words. - ["Tasty Words”/Poetic License 2014 [video]](https://nancymurphywriter.com/poetry-reading-2014/) - Nancy Murphy performs at a poetry reading in 2014. - ["Freak Out" full video (49 mins) [video]](https://nancymurphywriter.com/freak-out-full-video-49-mins-video/) - Nancy Murphy performs "Freak Out" full video (49 mins) . - ["Freak Out" excerpt [video]](https://nancymurphywriter.com/freak-out-excerpt-video/) - Nancy Murphy performs "Freak Out" (excerpt) . - ["Goodbye, I Love You" [podcast]](https://nancymurphywriter.com/goodbye-i-love-you-podcast/) - Nancy Murphy performs "Goodbye, I Love You." - [Goodbye, I Love You](https://nancymurphywriter.com/goodbye-i-love-you/) - I should have realized when my mother chided me for being maudlin that we would not have a proper goodbye when she died. We were in the kitchen, our usual place for conversation; I was visiting from LA. It was 1985. Sitting at the round oak table under the tiffany style lamp, I looked across the burnt orange countertops at my mother as she stood at the sink rinsing the coffee pot. - [Baby Love](https://nancymurphywriter.com/baby-love/) - The large coach bus pulls into Framingham station and I’m excited. I lived in this town from ages 1 to 4 and I’ve never been back. But I remember it vividly, the layout of our house, the picture window to the left of the front door where my mother combed my hair while my friend waited outside. I remember the kitchen fire, the little bus to preschool, - [Absence](https://nancymurphywriter.com/absence/) - My plants are dying a little every day. First the tall palm in the entryway. Then the others, one by one, like a slow moving disease. Plants can be victims. - [Betty, Poolside](https://nancymurphywriter.com/betty-poolside/) - She pleads with him to join her in the water, at first lightly, then with a rising insistence, and he resists. She is unhappy. It is always the same, the woman calling the man to her, wanting to float together in their skin, - [Making July](https://nancymurphywriter.com/making-july/) - The way my mouth must move to make the word July the oooh curl of lips and push of air followed by the open-mouth roll of tongue ends in an expression that could be mistaken for the way I look when your hands calm the outside of my skin. - [airport saturday night 7:45 pm](https://nancymurphywriter.com/airport-saturday-night-745-pm/) - like a hospital waiting room, airport departure wings are full of small talk and long silences and what sits underneath. I see parents sitting on either side of me at the gate philadelphia, back when you could do that kind of thing i always protested they always insisted. - [Summers of College](https://nancymurphywriter.com/summers-of-college/) - In summers of college I carried trays of food or two coffee cups in one hand or four platters up my arm. A short polyester tan colored uniform melted to my newly bloomed body as I pinballed around the packed Pennsylvania diner from table to minestrone soup - [A Midtown Street, Thursday 2:30 pm](https://nancymurphywriter.com/a-midtown-street-thursday-230-pm/) - Today I passed the middle of my life exactly. It’s my call: we all pick our time of death. It struck me undeniably like the way some know the death of a loved one or that they have cancer. - ["Summers of College" Published in Anthology](https://nancymurphywriter.com/summers-of-college-published-in-anthology/) - Altadena Poetry Anthology published "Summers of College." - [Nancy Murphy featured in Not Born Yesterday](https://nancymurphywriter.com/nancy-murphy-featured-in-not-born-yesterday-magazine/) - Nancy was featured in "Senior in Action: Nancy Murphy" in Not Born Yesterday Magazine. - [Concrete Love](https://nancymurphywriter.com/concrete-love/) - To make love in concrete you must start while it’s still impressionable, before it settles. Then it will be indelible, imprinted on your walkway for the world to see. ## Pages - [Home](https://nancymurphywriter.com/) - [Poems](https://nancymurphywriter.com/writings/poems/) - [Privacy Policy](https://nancymurphywriter.com/privacy-policy/) - [About](https://nancymurphywriter.com/about/) - [Videos & Podcasts](https://nancymurphywriter.com/videos-podcasts/) - [Other Writings](https://nancymurphywriter.com/writings/other-writings/) - [Contact](https://nancymurphywriter.com/contact/) - [Writings](https://nancymurphywriter.com/writings/) ## Categories - [Poems](https://nancymurphywriter.com/category/writing/poems/) - [Other Writings](https://nancymurphywriter.com/category/writing/other-writings/) - [Videos & Podcasts](https://nancymurphywriter.com/category/videos-and-podcasts/) - [Writing](https://nancymurphywriter.com/category/writing/) - [News](https://nancymurphywriter.com/category/news/) ## Tags - [absence](https://nancymurphywriter.com/tag/absence/) - [poetry by Nancy Murphy](https://nancymurphywriter.com/tag/poetry-by-nancy-murphy/) - 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