Lisa Bellamy's poetry dazzles with its clarity and humanness; its language is just hip enough to comfortably blast down urban streets under the arms of youthful scenesters, yet Zen-like with a transcendental prowess. Here Bellamy dispenses enough world-worn wisdom to make the Buddha blush—and images lovely enough to make any haiku practitioner awestruck.

Lisa's poetry has been published in Cimarron Review, Fugue, Harpur Palate, Massachusetts Review, New Ohio Review, PANK, The Sun, Tiferet and Triquarterly among other publications. She won the 2008 Fugue Poetry Prize and has received three Pushcart Prize nominations. Bellamy graduated from Princeton University and studies writing with Philip Schultz at The Writers Studio in New York City, where she also teaches. 

Check out PANK's blog review of Nectar at: http://www.pankmagazine.com/pankblog/reviews/nectar-by-lisa-bellamy-a-review-by-p-jonas-bekker/#more-17193 ("Lisa Bellamy covers some pretty dark subject matter, but she tackles it with a sense of irony and humor that makes for delightful reading." —P. Jonas Bekker)

Nectar contains 24 pages of poetry; is perfect-bound with glossy color cover and fine endpapers. Publication date: December 2011.