John A. Nieves is the author of the forthcoming "American Melancholy: Poems" (Ecco). She is Visiting Distinguished Professor in the English Dept. at Rutgers for the spring term 2023.

Other poems by John A. Nieves in Verse Daily:
February 19, 2023:   "Note From Apparent Magnitude to Luminosity" "Take a second to disregard the yawning pupils..."
May 10, 2021:   "On Pessimism" "They aren't phantoms. There are always..."
January 26, 2021:   "Calan Gaeaf" "When the soot-cheeked children chip..."
April 23, 2020:   "Scuttle" "Don't drink the gnat. It plants itself..."
November 13, 2019:   "Doppler" "I do not feel much..."
January 12, 2016:   "Door of Birds" "When the hard wind finds the high..."
February 24, 2014:   "Autumnal" "October happens this way..."
February 7, 2013:   "Labwork" "We can excuse the apprehension..."
September 24, 2012:   "Daily" "I know it is mythologically wrong..."

Books by John A. Nieves:

Other poems on the web by John A. Nieves:
"Tender"
"Long Dash"
"Roadside Monument"
Three poems
Three poems
"If You Tilt It like So, You Can Almost See It (Caput Draconis)"
"Note to a Prospective Runaway at Bedtime"
"Scission"
Three poems
"Elegy with the Elegy Missing"
"For Jenny"
"Ars Elegica"
"The Moment of the Fall"
"Random Pulls from the Body Tarot"
Three poems
Three poems
"Strawberry Moon"
"Grain Moon"
"Missive"
"Historiography"
Three poems
"Wolfpeach"
Three poems
"Through Ends of Autumn"
"Dendrochronology"
"Backyard"
"Epoxy (Wave Like Ahab)"
"Invasive Species"

John A. Nieves's Website.

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November 14, 2022:   "Heredity" by CD Eskilson
November 9, 2022:   "Subway Elegy" by Nan Cohen
March 7, 2022:   "Against Heaven" by Kemi Alabi
February 28, 2022:   "A Brief History of the War" by Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer
December 19, 2020:   "The Comedian" by Michael Bazzett
December 18, 2020:   "Night Coyote" by Tennessee Hill
December 17, 2020:   "Elegy Begun in July" by Becka McKay
April 26, 2020:   "The Decision" by Jen Givhan
April 25, 2020:   "The wovenness" by Carol Ann Davis
April 24, 2020:   "Word Problem" by Adam Tavel
May 25, 2019:   "Diorama (woman given all the children)" Catie Rosemurgy
May 24, 2019:   "The Lesson" Helena Mesa
March 1, 2019:   "The Minnesota State Fair's Miracle of Birth Center, sponsored by Subaru" J. Bailey Hutchinson
February 27, 2019:   "If I Could, or Poem Against the Crumbling of the Republic" Joe Wilkins
February 1, 2017:   "Religious Experience" by Christopher Howell
January 31, 2017:   "Religious Experience" by Landon Godfrey
January 30, 2017:   "The History of Running" by Elizabeth Langemak
March 2, 2016:   "Easter Island" by Pamela Alexander
March 1, 2016:   "Easterhouse (Wyoming)" by G. C. Waldrep
February 29, 2016:   "Matryoshka (as Madness)" by Alexandra Teague
December 24, 2015:   "Circle" by Bruce Bond
December 23, 2015:   "Algebra of the Sky" by David Hernandez
December 22, 2015:   "In Its Body" by Karina Borowicz
December 21, 2015:   "Economica" by Tony Hoagland
August 13 2015:   "I Went to the Market" by Michael Bazzett
July 29 2015:   "Animal Space" by Sarah Rose Nordgren
July 28 2015:   "koalas" by Jan Wagner (tr. David Keplinger)
July 27 2015:   "I Also Do Impressions" by D.A. Powell
January 31, 2013:   "Audubon Ate His Birds" by Kristin Robertson
January 28, 2013:   "As Vivien As Blanche" by Mark Anthony Cayanan
January 26, 2013:   "Landscape After Years With Yourself, West Texas" by Shamala Gallagher
March 24, 2012:   "Lungful" by Brian D. Morrison
March 22, 2012:   "The Decorator Crab," by Sarah Giragosian
March 21, 2012:   "The Man in the Moon Retires to a Small House in a Valley" by Rick Bursky
December 2, 2011:   "A Report" by Steve Langan
March 14, 2011:   "Sometimes a woman sets off alarms" by Anna Journey
November 29, 2010:   "Thirst" by Jennie Wrisley
November 26, 2010:   "Lobster" by Matthew Minicucci
February 28, 2010:   "A Whipsaw Takes Two Men" by Patricia Lockwood
February 25, 2010:   "Blót" by A. E. Watkins
February 20, 2010:   "Contrast" by Jericho Brown
February 16, 2010:   "No Narrative" by A. E. Watkins
November 11, 2009:   "Wedding Piñata" by James Hoch
November 10, 2009:   "Stray Paragraphs, February, Year of the Rat" by John Estes
November 8, 2009:   "Evasion of Privacy" by Jordan Davis
November 6, 2009:   "The Interior Weather of Tree-Clinging Birds" by Sandy Longhorn

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