Nadia Colburn's writing delves into the intersection of personal and social transformation, exploring art's role in the process of change. Her work, featured in numerous national publications, often draws from personal insights and spiritual practices. Through poetry and prose, she navigates the depths of human experience, offering readers profound reflections. Her approach is informed by both scholarly pursuits and a dedication to mindfulness.
Poetry. This masterful debut reveals for each reader new depths of nature, self, family, and world by opening our tiniest and most intimate perceptions. Colburn's poetics balances image with absence, silence with sound. These elegant poems take on the questions of our day: can we have our sweet domestic lives when the life of the planet hangs in the balance? What does it mean to create and nurture a new human being in this perilous age?
In poems at once profound and accessible, Nadia Colburn finds splendor and astonishment in a natural world - and a human world - that is deeply troubled yet still majestically beautiful.