Praise for Flame Nebula, Bright Nova

Sherre Vernon’s Flame Nebula road-trips through the pitch and bloom of various loves, excavating the challenges and joys of intimacy. Vernon’s questions fold over themselves “like clay petals”: what does it mean to be an estranged daughter and a devoted mother? How can one let go of past wounds to enter, full-hearted, into the present? Spun from “desert-sun” and “kestrel wing,” these poems are luminous, full of grit and humor. A marvelous debut. ~Amie Whittemore, author of Glass Harvest and 2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee

This is the book you’ll reach for to reacquaint yourself with the fire inside. A book of joy & shadows; a mother making space for her life, love, & pain. ReadingSherreVernon’s Flame Nebula, Bright Nova is to witness a heart gone incandescent with longing, a heat that builds so you tooincendiate. A fearless encounter with a voice so familiar you’ll swear out loud when you realize it’s not your own memory, not your own voice, guiding you through.  ~Melissa Eleftherion, Poet Laureate of Ukiah, CA

“Griefsong” Made into an Animated Short

Listen In

You can hear other poems on the Cruzfolio podcast, including the poems “Juniper” and “The City Cancels 4th of July” and the prose poem/flash CNF piece “Wishing Big.” 

Recognition

In 2023, the poem, “I’d Like a Little More,” was nominated by Rise Up Review for a Best of the Net and the poem, “Keepsake” was nominated by Panoply for a Pushcart prize. The poem “3,000 Turns Against Death” placed second in the 2023 Sweet Lit’s poetry contest and the poem “White Wedding, November Rain & Other Songs for A Wedding Playlist” placed second for the 2022 Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize. In 2020, the poem “A Descriptive Linguistics of Isolation” was named a finalist in Sweet Lit’s poetry contest, and the lyric essay “How Fragile the Seam” was inclusion in the Best Small Fictions anthology. The essay, “From This Body–Music” was an Honorable Mention in the 2020 Words & Music competition and was selected for audio production by Gather Round Podcast. In 2019 the poem “The Hanged Man” was nominated for a Best of the Net award. Click through to read 2019 and 2020 interviews with The Rappahannock Review.

Major Publications

The Name is Perilous is no longer in print, but you can view a PDF of the chapbook here.  Green Ink Wings, a post-modern novella, is available on Amazon. Flame Nebula, Bright Nova was a 2020 finalist for the Hillary Gravendyk Prize under a working title, and was published 2023 by Main Street Rag.

A Few Poems

• In Witness to a Pandemic Cleansing
• One More Role Playing Game
• Bubble Mornings With My Baby
• Dedication of the Fire-Fish & Of Thee I Sing
• Firstroots & Take This Body
• Augury for Spring

Sherre Vernon (she/her/hers) is the award-winning author of Green Ink Wings, The Name is Perilous, and Flame Nebula, Bright Nova. Sherre has been published in journals such as Tahoma Literary Review and The Chestnut Review, nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart prizes, and anthologized in several collections including Fat & Queer and Best Small Fictions. She teaches creative writing for the Downtown Writers Center at the YMCA of Central New York and composition at Merced College. Read more at http://www.sherrevernon.com/publications

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