Paul Nemser’s third book of poetry, A Thousand Curves, won the Editor’s Choice Award from Red Mountain Press and is forthcoming in April 2021. His book Taurus (2013) won the New American Poetry Prize. A chapbook, Tales of the Tetragrammaton, appeared from Mayapple Press in 2014. His poems appear widely in magazines. He lives with his wife Rebecca in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Harborside, Maine. His poem “For An Astronomer’s Daughter” can be found here. It appears in the Jan/Feb 2021 issue of KROnline. A Thousand Curves? This book is a collection of poems written over a lifetime of writing poetry. My first two books were long narratives, with characters set in a particular place. But throughout my life, I have also been writing shorter poems, exploring different geographies, voices, forms. The poems in