Conversation and Poetry with Louise Nayer

Welcome to conversation and poetry with Louise Nayer, a native New Yorker, now San Franciscan. She has published two books of poetry: Keeping Watch (with funding from the NEA) and The Houses Are Covered in Sound (Blue Light Press). Louise attended SUNY at Buffalo for graduate school where she studied with poets Robert Creeley and John Logan. She co-authored a non-fiction book with Virginia Lang, How to Bury a Goldfish: Celebrations and Ceremonies for Everyday Life (Rodale). Her book Burned: A Memoir (Atlas and Co.) was published in 2010 and won the 2011 Wisconsin Library Association Award and was a finalist for the USA Book News Award.