Nick Kelsh

The common thread through everything I've done is that I always wanted to make something beautiful.

The common thread through everything I've done is that I always wanted to make something beautiful.

Our senses of sight and sound, imagination and inspiration, that's the center.

I'm a firm believer that brutality and beauty and/or sorrow and joy are sisters.

I was always drawn to the sound of poetry.

I think the best way to characterize my scientific interests is to say that they encompass the whole subject of how a planet works, especially a planet with life on it

I refer to myself as an everyday mystic. I have experienced the intersection of Time and Timeless. The world for me is dualistic. As a result, I see things in wholes rather than parts.

The wide range of genres represented by Lucid House reflects my curiosity and taste.

ARTWIFE works because we're wives to each other, of course, but also because we like the idea it evokes of being wedded to artwork and orienting one's life toward art and beauty.

All the literary criticIsm I learned helped me to become a good editor...

Everything we read, if we read it deeply enough, changes us.

The first sculpture that I made on my own was small and was carved from an old railroad tie.

So that one wrong class led me to the path of writing: poetry, story, novel, essays