Nameless as the Minnows

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Nameless as the Minnows

Poems by Connie Jordan Green
ISBN: 978-1-963695-29-8 paperback $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-963695-30-4 ebook $9.99

June 18, 2025

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In Nameless as the Minnows, poems move through an early consideration of one’s yet unrealized self being washed toward a faceless future, into an exploration of growth and resilience through family and loss, and farther into the miracles of forming a new family and finding one’s true name among the wonders of the natural world, culminating in the spirit yet reaching toward the stars, the universe, still questioning the unknowable and praising “the small rituals of becoming and being.”

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Praise for Nameless as the Minnows: Poems by Connie Jordan Green

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All of Connie Jordan Green’s work shines with the same light she describes in a portrait of a young girl peeling potatoes—the kind of light that might be the sun rising but may just as easily be the sun setting. Regardless, we are all the better for basking in the glow.

—Denton Loving, author of Tamp

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In Nameless as the Minnows, Connie Jordan Green’s throaty verse illuminates the grit and unflinching spirit of rural America, each carefully crafted line skillfully depicting the power of family and the pride and comfort that can be drawn from the people and places we call home.

—Kari Gunter-Seymour, Ohio Poet Laureate, author of Dirt Songs

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This book testifies that aging is not anathema to fascination and childlike wonder. Connie Jordan Green is masterful as she puts us into the skin which covers not her static self-portrait, but the still-shifting pulse of dynamic living.

—Susan O’Dell Underwood, author of Splinter and Genesis Road

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Connie Jordan Green’s voice is that of a soul at peace, sharpened by a mind conditioned, out of necessity, to look at absence, loss, deprivation, or need and then to get busy doing the hard work of wrestling blessing from—and offering blessing for—this unkempt, unquenchable, sometimes dwindling, often unbearable, always sacred space we share.

—Jeff Hardin, author of Watermark and A Clearing Space in the Middle of Being

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Connie Jordan Green Connie is the author of novels for young people, poetry chapbooks and collections, and a personal newspaper column that ran for more than 42 years. Her poetry and prose have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is the recipient of awards for her writing including induction into the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame, a Tribute to the Arts Award from the Oak Ridge Arts Council, and inclusion in Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia (Univ Press of Kentucky, 2003). She taught creative writing for the University of Tennessee and continues to teach at various workshops.