Nick Theisen Member Member since 2024

Renewing relationship with mystery and wilderness

Nick Theisen resides in Minneapolis, though at heart he belongs to the pine forests of Northern Minnesota. Interested in themes of wilderness, interbeing and belonging, mythic imagination, the relationship between self and land, and the ecological soul, his writing seeks a renewed relationship with mystery and the offering of an invitation to move in new ways, which may in actuality be old ways. For him, poetry is an act of remembrance and a living reminder that our essence is gift, and that the essence of gift is in both receiving and giving. He sees life as largely about listening to the voice of the forest, in both its literal and metaphorical manifestations, which lends itself well to a poetic biography- a life that flows both seamlessly and disjointedly between the page and the “other world” of this world. A human amongst humans and a soul amongst souls, participating in a world that breathes through emergence, he delights in mutual sharing of the poetic.