D. Nurkse's twelfth poetry collection A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS, a "new and selected," was published by Knopf in 2022. He has also taught in the prison system and served a term on the board of Amnesty International-USA.

Other poems by D. Nurkse in Verse Daily:
May 26, 2023:   "Not Yet American" "At the end we are marching and yelling..."
February 22, 2023:   "Carriers" "A soldier in fatigues stood guard at Grand Central..."
January 6, 2022:   "Our Winter" "Someone who claims he does not know what he is doing..."
December 10, 2021:   "Our Winter" "The senators hear a murmur in the distance...."
February 20, 2021:   "Conspiracy Of Starlight" "Saturn is coming to power...."
March 31, 2019:   "I Have Never Slept with an Animal" "I have never slept with an animal, so it is..."
February 24, 2019:   "Inmost Circle" "So Virgil took me..."
February 14, 2016:   "Half-Finished Houses" "No-Name stuck a thumb in my eyes...."
June 7, 2010:   "Syntax" "When we were apes..."
April 18, 2009:   "Isle Au Haut" "I spent that August in your mind..."
March 20, 2008:   "Grafton" "Hardly had I died..."
March 13, 2008:   "Coligny" "There was a passerby on that road..."
July 15, 2007:   "Trial Marriage" " Strangers treat each other..."
May 20, 2005:  "Pas De L'Incise" ""We came down from the little mountains..."

Other poems on the web by D. Nurkse:
"End of Summer in the Foothills"
"Order to Disperse,"
"Fall of Varia"
Five poems
"A Clearing on Ruth Island"
"The Constitution at Night"
"The Physical World"
"Care"
"Letter from the Foothills"
"The Present" \
"Love in the Last Days: After Tristan and Iseult"
"The Pale Side of the Leaves"
Thirty-two poems
Five poems
Four poems
Two poems
Eleven poems
"Letter From The Capital"
"The Unfinished"

D. Nurkse's Website.

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Other poems by The Manhattan Review in Verse Daily:
February 13, 2024:   "Ghost" by Bruce Bond
February 12, 2024:   "Three-Years-out-of-College-Laundromat-Late-Sunday-Afternoon Blues" by Baron Wormser
February 27, 2023:   "Roe Stag" by Pascale Petit
February 23, 2023:   "A Guest of War" by Oksana Maksymchuk
February 22, 2023:   "Carriers" by D. Nurkse
January 6, 2022:   "Our Winter" by D. Nurkse
December 13, 2021:   "Self as Last Call" by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
December 10, 2021:   "A Secret Passage" by D. Nurkse
December 6, 2021:   "A Political Moment" by Barry Wallenstein
February 20, 2021:   "Conspiracy Of Starlight" by D. Nurkse
February 18, 2021:   "Imagining Georgia O'Keeffe at Her Meditation In Time Of Civil War Ranch" by Judith Wilkinson
February 17, 2021:   "Blues in a Turn of Season" by Joannie Stangeland
July 22, 2019:   "Lieu de Coiffure Mémoire" Angie Estes
February 24, 2019:   "Inmost Circle" D. Nurkse
February 16 2016:   "To Avoid a White Day" by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
February 14, 2016:   "Half-Finished Houses" by D. Nurkse
June 9, 2010:   "Starlings" by Roddy Lumsden
June 7, 2010:   "Syntax" by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
April 23, 2009:   "Echoing Canto of the Gleaners (Inferno)" by John Kinsella
April 19, 2009:   "Sunday Morning" by Kathryn Simmonds
April 18, 2009:   "Isle Au Haut" by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
April 17, 2009:   "Sand" by Bruce Bond
March 13, 2008:   "Coligny" by D. Nurske
March 11, 2008:   "Canto of the Workshop" by John Kinsella

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