Bill Nevins

Bill Nevins, MA, is a New Mexico poet and journalist who has enjoyed Irish poetry and songs ever since he first heard his Tipperary-born great- grandmother singing “Molly Malone”. Bill graduated from Iona College, did graduate work in literature at U. of Connecticut and U. California at Berkeley and worked as a magazine reporter visiting Ireland during the “Troubles” and in more recent, happier times.  Along the way, he’s enjoyed concerts by and spoken with The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, The Pogues, Christy Moore, Sinead O’Connor, Terene Winch and Paul Muldoon, among many others.  He’s taught at U. of New Mexico and other schools, and he’s always known that Irish- “Celtic” poetry and music are joyously ever-intertwined.