“A visionary poet; her music is spellbinding, and her poems seem at times like incantations.”
—Ellery Akers, author of Swerve: Poems on Environmentalism, Feminism, and Resistance
“This poet is howling at the crossroads.”
—Marielle Grenade-Willis
Poems and essays
The Return, North Atlantic Books, Tools for Grief and Heartbreak, Jan. 2024
Against Rigor: In Favor of a Responsive Education, Dark Mountain Project, Nov. 15, 2023
Working the Steps, book excerpt, The Embody Lab, July 28, 2023
Seducing the Moon, Dark Mountain Project, Jan. 4, 2023
Writing, AROHO, June 21, 2021
To My Students, Radical Teacher: A Socialist, Feminist, and Anti-Racist Journal on the Theory and Practice of Teaching, April 21, 2021
Two Rivers, East Iowa Review, Oct. 2020—Winner of the Editor’s Choice Award
Poems, Nomadic Journal, Sep. 23, 2020
“Our Spirits Die When They Die”: Reflections on our Ecological Holocaust, Dark Mountain Project, Feb. 3, 2020
Poems, Nomadic Journal, Jan. 29, 2018
Dear Sophie: The Art of Reproduction in the Age of Ecological Catastrophe, Lilith, June 20, 2017
This Thing of Darkness, Counting the Bromer, May 13, 2017
Deportation Liturgy, Vox Populi, Feb. 15, 2017
Poetry chapbooks:
Leaving the Lecture on Dance, 2017
À Luz, 2016
“Nina’s trauma-informed approach engagingly guides the reader toward the secret garden of somatic and spiritual awakening.”
—Cornelia Elbrecht, founder and director of the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy
Books
Recent presentations
“Jewish Ancestral Trauma,” presenter and panelist, San Bernardino County Cultural Competency Summit
“Mah nora ha-makom hazeh: Poems of Trauma and Healing through Somatic Presence,” presenter, Conney Conference on Jewish Arts
”Naming and Responding to Ancestral, Pandemic, and Ecological Trauma from Bildung to the Jewish Holocaust,” presenter and panelist, American Academy of Religion
Interviews
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Ep. 114: The Mind-Body Guide to Recovery with Nina Pick
Sun & Moon Sober Living
June 18, 2025 -
Ep. 155 • Physically Experiencing the Twelve Steps, with Nina Pick
Positive Sobriety
Nov. 18, 2023 -
Nina Pick: The Mind-Body Guide to the Twelve Steps- Healing from Trauma and Addiction
Recover Your Soul
Oct. 15, 2023 -
Ep. 39: Rock Bottom Truth
The Truth to Power Show
Oct. 6, 2018 -
Ep 2.12: Listening as a Sacred Act with Nina Pick
Jewish Ancestral Healing
Episode 2.12