{"product_id":"letters-to-jimbo","title":"Letters to Jimbo","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNancy Owen Nelson\u003c\/strong\u003e’s poems appear in The South Dakota Review, Graffiti Rag, What Wildness Is This: Women Write About the Southwest, The MacGuffin, This\/That Lit (online), and Oberon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eHer books include her memoirs, Searching for Nannie B (2015) and Divine Aphasia: A Woman’s Search for Her Father (2021); her poetry chapbook, My Heart Wears No Colors (FutureCycle Press, 2018) and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/portals?_pos=2\u0026amp;_sid=2cb0ba329\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ePortals: A Memoir in Verse\u003c\/a\u003e (Kelsay Books, 2019); and her full-length collection \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/five-points-south-poems-from-an-alabama-pilgrimage?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=2cb0ba329\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eFive Points South: Poems from an Alabama Pilgrimage\u003c\/a\u003e (Kelsay Books, 2022), which was chosen as the 2022 Book of the Year by the Alabama State Poetry Society.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eNelson earned her B.A, in English and French at Birmingham Southern, and her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in English at Auburn University. She is the coordinator of the monthly Zoom program Poetry Vespers sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Church of Detroit. She currently serves as Managing Editor of 7 Points Press in The Shoals, Alabama.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eMost recently, Nelson has steered an effort to create a Poet Laureate for the City of Florence, Alabama.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback: 60 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (February 21, 2026)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53024098418872,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0013\/0800\/0329\/files\/nelson2_front_e651cb84-41ca-4f58-8c52-c1595e493d9b.jpg?v=1773769522","url":"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/letters-to-jimbo","provider":"Kelsay Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}