Sheryl L. Nelms

Poet

Clyde, TX

Texas US

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Author's Bio

My goal since 1979 has been to have something in the mail every Friday. It works. I've had over 5,000 stories, articles and poems published in textbooks, anthologies and magazines. Fourteen collections of my poems have also been published. My poems have been used on TV, CD's, audio tapes for the blind, in Braille, on PBS radio and in mail art shows including a show in Osaka, Japan.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

From The Porch Swing: Memories Of Our Grandparents (Silver Boomer Books, 2010)

When Last On the Mountain: The View From Writers Over Fifty (Holy Cow Press, 2010)

Beyond Forgetting (Kent State University Press, 2009)

This Path (Silver Boomer Books, 2009)

Families: The Frontline of Pluralism (Wising Up Press, 2008)

Freckles to Wrinkles (Silver Boomer Books, 2008)

Dog Blessings: Poems, Prose and Prayers Celebrating Our Relationship With Dogs (June Cotner, 2007)

Reeds and Rushes (Pudding House Press, 2007)

Second Annual Northwoods Anthology (Northwoods Press, 2005)

Friendship Anthology (Colorado State University Press, 2003)

Laundromat Anthology (Iniquity Press, 2003)

Lighten Up: 101 Funny Little Poems (Meadowbrook Press, 2003)

Messages From Mothers to Sons Anthology (Lynxfield Publishing, 2002)

The Best of Girls To the Rescue (Meadowbrook Press, 2002)

Dan River Anthology 2002 (Dan River Press, 2001)

Our Bundle Of Joy (Meadowbrook Press, 2001)

Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace: Writing by Women of the Great Plains/High Plains (Backwaters Press, 2001)

Off The Cuffs: On Policing And Policed (Jackie Sheeler, 2000)

Surviving Ophelia (Cheryl Dellasega, 2000)

Rising To The Dawn: A Rape Survivor's Journey Into Healing (Little Treasure Publications, Inc., 1999)

Stories From Where We Live: The Great North American Prairie (Milkweed Editions, 1999)

Silver Trees And Wind Songs (Golden Apple Press, 1998)

A Scent Of Apple (Pittenbrauch Press, 1997)

Catching Snowflakes & Memories (Golden Apple Press, 1997)

Circumference Of Days (Pittenbrauch Press, 1997)

Family, Friends And Apple Trees (Golden Apple Press, 1997)

Girls To The Rescue (Meadowbrook Press, 1997)

More Big Thoughts (Golden Apple Press, 1996)

To Climb A Purple Mountain (Golden Apple Press, 1996)

Treasure The Moment (Quill Books, 1996)

Iowa Woman Anthology: The Best Of The First Fifteen Years (Iowa Woman, 1995)

Joy Of The Journey (Golden Apple Press, 1995)

Wherever Home Begins (Orchard Books, 1995)

If I Had Wanted Quiet, I Would Have Raised Goldfish (Meadowbrook Press, 1994)

Older But Wiser (Meadowbrook Press, 1994)

Opening A Door: Reading Poetry in the Middle School (Orchard Books, 1994)

Eating Our Hearts Out (Crossings Press, 1992)

Full Circle Thirteen (Guild Press, 1992)

Looking For Your Face (Orchard Books, 1992)

The 100 Best Poems Of Beauty, Faith & Inspiration Anthology (Anderie Poetry Press, 1992)

The Funny Side Of Feelings Anthology (Anderie Poetry Press, 1992)

Moosehead Review Anthology (Robert Allen, 1987)

The Music of What Happens: Poems That Tell Stories (Orchard Books, 1987)

This Delicious Day (Orchard Books, 1987)

Going Over To Your Place: Poems for Each Other (Bradbury Press, 1986)

Impressions: A Collection of Poetry (Quill Books, 1986)

Proof Rock Anthology (Proof Rock, 1986)

Ursus Press Anthology (Ursus Press, 1986)

1985 Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry (Monitor Book Company, 1985)

Dan River Anthology (Dan River Press, 1985)

From Seedbed to Harvest: The American Farmer (Art Cuelo, 1985)

Hide and Horn (Eakin Press, 1985)

Nude Erections Anthology (Illuminati, 1985)

Soundings Anthology (Lake Shore Publishing, 1985)

The Best of Spitball (Spitball, 1985)

Winewood Women (Winewood Publishing, 1984)

Texas Anthology (Place of Herons Press, 1982)

Books:

Bluebonnets, Boots and Buffalo Bones (Silver Boomer Books, 2009)

Howling At the Gibbous Moon (Pudding House Publications, 2008)

Greatest Hits 1978-2003 (Pudding House Publications, 2003)

The Secrets of the Wind (Kitty Litter Press, 2002)

Aunt Emma Collected Teeth (Sweet Annie Press, 1999)

Friday Night Desperate (IM Press, 1997)

Land of the Blue Paloverde (Shooting Star Press, 1995)

Strawberries and Rhubarb (Peak Output Unlimited, 1990)

Technology & Rural America/Sunrust (Dawn Valley Press, 1987)

Their Combs Turn Red in the Spring (Northwoods Press, 1984)

Journals:

'scapes

Abraxas

Acorn Whistle

Agenda

Aileron

AIM Quarterly

Akwesasne Notes

Aldebaran

Alive Now

Ally

Alura

Ambergris

America

American Goat

American Indian Culture and Research Journal

American Man

Anemone

Anna's House

Appearances

Array

Arroyo Literary Review

Art Times

Arulo

Aurorean

Bay Windows

Beginnings Magazine

Black Moon

Black Mountain Review

Blackbird

Blank Gun Silencer

Blow

Blue Horse

Blue Unicorn

Bogg

Bohemian Chronicle

Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review

Broken Streets

Bronte Street

Broomstick

Buffalo Bones

Buffalo Spree

Byline

Cache Review

California Quarterly

Calli's Tales

Camellia

Cape Rock

Capper's

Cedar Rock

Celery

Chiron Review

Christian Science Monitor

Clackamas Literary Review

Clarion

Clark Street Review

Clock Radio

Coffeehouse Poets Quarterly

Common Ground Review

Common Lives/Lesbian Lives

Conceptions Southwest

Concho River Review

Conflict of Interest

Confrontation

Context South

Cottage Cheese

Cotton Boll

Crab Creek Review

Cricket

Crowdancing

Crystal Rainbow

Curbside Review

Daring Poetry Quarterly

December Rose

Dekalb Literary Arts Journal

Deros

Dialogue

Dog River Review

Earth's Daughters

Earthwise

Edgz

Electrum

Ellipsis

Embers

Encore

Eve's Legacy

Evergreen Chronicles

Excursus

Exit 13 Magazine

Explorer

Expressions

Fan Magazine

Fat Tuesday

FEH!

Forum

Fox Cry Review

Free Focus

Free Lunch

Friends Journal

Lalitamba

Generation

Generation X National Journal

Golden Isis

Grasslands Review

Green Feather

Green's Magazine

Grit

Gryphon

Haight-Asbury Literary Journal

Hammers

Hard Row to Hoe

Harpur Palate

Hawai'i Pacific Review

Hazmat Review

Heeltap

Hiram Poetry Review

Home Planet News

Hoosier Challenger

Hudson Valley Echoes

Hyperion

Ideals

Impetus

In My Shoes

In Your Face

Innisfree

Into the Teeth of the Wind

Iota

Iowa Woman

Jean's Journal

Jewish Women's Literary Annual

Kaleidoscope

Kansas Quarterly

Karamu

Kinesis

knock

Kumquat Meringue

L'Ouverture

Lactuca

Lake Effect

Lapis

Laurel Review

Literally Horses

Long Island Quarterly

Long Pond Review

Lucid Moon

Lucky Star

MacGuffin

Mad Poets Review

Main Street Rag

Manna

Medicinal Purposes

Mediphors

Metis

Metrosphere

Midwest Poetry Review

Milkweed Chronicle

Mind in Motion

Minotaur

Mobius

Modern Images

Modern Maturity

Moon Reader

Mothering

Negative Capability

Nettles & Nutmeg

New Arts Review

New Collage Magazine

New Earth Review

New England Sampler

New Texas

New Voices

Nexus

Night Roses

No Exit

North Dakota Quarterly

Nostalgia

Not Your Average Zine

Now and Then

Off the Coast

Old Hickory Review

Onionhead

Ormfaer

Orphic Lute

Out of Line

Overtures

Oyez Review

Paisano

Paper Radio

Parnassus

Passaic Review

The Phoenix

Piddiddle

Piedmont Literary Review

Pinchpenny

Pivot

Plainsongs

Planet Detroit

Pleiades

PMS: poemmemoirstory

Poet's Corner

Poet's Pen Quarterly

Poetalk

Poetic Eloquence

Poetpourri

Poetry

Poetry Depth Quarterly

Poetry Forum Journal

Poetry Magazine

Poetry Motel

Poetry New York

Poetry North Review

Poetry Now

Poetry Today

Poets On

Proof Rock

Prophetic Voices

Psychopoetica

Purpose

Quindaro

Raccoon

Random Weirdness

Reader's Digest

Rebirth of Artemis

Red Owl

Redstart

Reflect

Reflections Literary Journal

Renegade

RFD

RHINO

Ripples

River City Review

River Rat Review

River Sedge

Riverrun

riverSedge

Roanoke Review

Rockhurst Review

Salome

San Fernando Poetry Journal

San Jose Studies

Schmaga

Second Glance

Sharing

Shooting Star Review

Sidewalks

Silver Wings

Sinister Wisdom

Sisters Today

Sisyphus

Skyline Magazine

Skywriters

Slant

Slipstream

Smoke Signals

Sojourn

Sojourner

Soundings

Soundings East

South Coast Poetry Journal

Southern Exposure

Space and Time

Spelunker Flophouse

Spindrift

Spitball

Star Route Journal

Starsong

Stet

Sulphur River Literary Review

Sweet Annie

Tapjoe

Tar Wolf Review

Taurus

Tempest

The Acorn

The Advocate

The Archer

The Artful Mind

The Gay & Lesbian Review

The Louisiana Review

The Old Red Kimono

The Orange Room Review

The Panhandler

The Pegasus Review

The Pen Women

The Plastic Tower

The Poet

The Quercus Review

The Scribbler

The Spoon River Quarterly

The Writer's Voice

Thin Air

Thorny Locust

Tight

Timber Creek Review

Time of Singing

Tin Wreath

Treasure House

Tucumcari Literary Review

Unicorn

Up Against the Wall Mother

Urban Spaghetti

Vanderbilt Review

Verve

Visions

Voices

Voices International

Waterways

Way Station Magazine

We Magazine

Webster Review

Wellspring

Welter

West Hills Review

West Wind Review

Westview

Wide Open Magazine

Wind

Wired Art From Wired Hearts

Without Halos

Words of Wisdom

Write On!

Writer's Journal

Writing for Our Lives

Xavier Review

Yefief

Yet Another Small Magazine

Z Miscellaneous

Zen Tattoo

Zephyr Magazine

Zillah

ZYX

Prizes won:

Shultz-Werth Research Award at South Dakota State University with $500 1st Prize for poetry manuscript, Worms After A Hard Rain. 1995 Pegasus Award from the Oklahoma Writers Federation for Land of the Blue Paloverde, a book of poetry. Also won over 100 other writing prizes.

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now:

The Night of the Gun by David Carr, Cut by Cathy Glass, Street Kid by Judy Westwater, Savor the Moment by Nora Roberts, Islands of the Damned by R.V. Burgin

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

English American, Irish American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Born in:

Marysville

Raised in:

Wichita, KS

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Last update: Aug 16, 2018