From the rock ledge up high
down to the flooded river,
two black-backed coon dogs
traverse the vertical cliff,
winding through trees,
long ears trailing, giving cry
the way my flute threads
its notes through the woods.

–Nana Lampton,
Bloom on a Split Board (2011)
Accents Publishing

Nana Lampton earned a BA in English literature at Wellesley, and an MA at the University of Virginia, and she attended programs at the Harvard Business School. In 2004, she received an MFA in Writing from Spalding University. Nana has also studied drawing and painting at the Corcoran School of Art and the Louisville Visual Art Association. Nana’s other publications include the books Snowy Owl Gathers in Her Trove, and Moon with the Sun in Her Eye. Her art and poetry have been exhibited at the Chapman Friedman Gallery in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Northwoods Gallery in Land O’ Lakes, Wisconsin, among others.