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Nicole Tallman

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Poetry Ambassador for Miami 🌴 Author of Dolce Vita⚜️Poetry & Interviews Editor for The Blue Mountain Review & South Florida Poetry Journal ☀️ Communications Director for JackLeg Press 💙 Website: nicoletallman.com 🌈

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · Nov 25

It was a magical Miami Book Fair!

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 2h

My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 2d

“Everything ends up being an ode to death.”

—Martha Silano in TERMINAL SURREAL (@acrebooks.bsky.social)

DEATH POEM

Death is the one-day-alive mayfly clinging to a watering can.
When the grass turns brown, how can I not think of death?
In my heart, death lives like a mama raccoon with her two young.
We haven't figured out a way to undo death.
Death awaits the pigeon on a roof, says the Cooper's hawk.
It's not cool to mention corpse beetles when there's a death.
Did you know there's a death's-head hawkmoth?
A scrub jay squawks death, death, death!
Dragonflies and death: they live about six months.
Eating is for sure some kind of elaborate death feast.
Sometimes death is invisible, especially when we laugh.
Our planet: one big tribute concert to death.
Death be not proud, says John Donne, but death is proud, I think.
Everything ends up being an ode to death.

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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 1d

Have you signed up yet? It's this Tuesday!

NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · 24d

Announcement time! October 14th, 7:00 Eastern: Hear poems from @clbpoetry.bsky.social, @mitchnobis.bsky.social, and @djvorreyer.bsky.social! Hosted by the amazing @readinstead.bsky.social!

Hit the eventbrite link to register. NAWP!

www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

Promo graphic with author photos of Donna Vorreyer, Chris Butler, and Mitchell Nobis. And the NAWP ostrich, of course.
The text says:
A NAWP Reading
Chris L. Butler
Mitch Nobis
Donna Vorreyer
Hosted by
Jared Beloff
October 14, 2025
7:00-8:00PM EST

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 2d

For Your Sunday
It All Comes Back to Me Now
~ Dr. Maya C. Popa
—To them I say, it's ok to be half right
about what love means in the making of a life/God forbid I hadn't taken every last wrong turn.

It All Comes Back to Me Now
Maya C. Popa
Dusk, the mountains mauve,
and the samphire trembles between stones,
and the voices of long-dead singers croon through a hotel stereo.
Theirs is a wisdom suspended in feeling: they are always at the beginning
without a watch and no place to be.
To them I say, it's ok to be half right
about what love means in the making of a life. Not a trap, but a clearing.
Here I am, filled out by happiness I could not otherwise have earned.
God forbid I hadn't taken every last wrong turn.

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Ande B @ande91.bsky.social · 2d

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Richard Blanco @poetrichardblanco.bsky.social · 2d

For this final #StanzaSunday of #HispanicHeritageMonth, a poem I wrote at the request of constitutional lawyer Larry Tribe—to honor the D.A.C.A. DREAMers.

Hear me read the poem, and explore #LatinoPoetry at libraryofamerica.bsky.social: www.latinopoetry.org/fea.../como-...

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 2d

I bare the shambling tricks of lust and pride.

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 2d

Heading for the ‘90s, living in the ‘80s.

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. @taylorbyas.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight, at Brooklyn Poets!!

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 10d

If you’re looking for a Halloween read, I’ve got you covered. 🧡🖤

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Wild & Precious Life Series @wplseries.bsky.social · 3d

Join the WPLS in celebrating @fourwaybooks.bsky.social authors @rajivmohabir.bsky.social, Megan Pinto, & Peggy Robles-Alvarado on 10/22!

#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #writers
#poetry

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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 3d

“The future is full of possibility. Some of life’s surprises are heartbreaking, yes—but some are heart-repairing," shares host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in today’s episode.

Read "At Last the New Arriving" by @gabbat.bsky.social and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4mShV9s

📖: Persea Books

graphic featuring a portion of Gabrielle Calvocoressi's poem

a photograph of poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 9d

Setting poems to music.

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 9d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Nonfiction: Pretty by KB Brookins! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 10d

Julie, or Sylvia | Asterism Books

This is The Ternion. 3 novels were written during our 2nd #antiwrimo experience (November 2023.) Indulge in three books of varying genres and experience collaborative writing at its finest. When a w...

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 10d

If you’re looking for a Halloween read, I’ve got you covered. 🧡🖤

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 10d

Anne Sexton died 51 years ago today. I wrote a cento in her honor. 💜

Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 11d

Today would have been my mother’s 77th birthday. I miss her every day. This poem always reminds me of her.

Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 12d

This poem.

Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 11d

Word on the street is that I have a new book coming out in April 2027.

Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 12d

It looks like there is only one copy left in stock. We’re just going to call it a limited edition. It was a fun ride. RIP FERSACE. a.co/d/9VoZ5KA

FERSACE

Amazon.com: FERSACE: 9781942004646: Tallman, Nicole: Books

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 12d

Congratulations to David Welch and the editors @jacklegpress.bsky.social! 🥳

Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 12d

We are so thrilled to announce the shortlist for 2025 CHIRBys!!! Congratulations to all of our finalists 🥳🥳🥳

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 14d

My interview with the magical Denise Duhamel is live in the new issue of The Blue Mountain Review. Check it, and the entire brilliant issue, out now!

Blue Mountain Review September 2025

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 16d

DC peeps! My book launch is October 14th at the extremely awesome Lost City Bookstore in Adams Morgan, with the v brilliant @rvoronacote.bsky.social as my conversation partner! It will be Halloween themed! Please come! www.eventbrite.com/e/happy-peop...

Happy People Don't Live Here by Amber Sparks

A Halloween-themed event for Amber Sparks' debut novel, Happy People Don't Live Here.

www.eventbrite.com

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𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 @iambapoet.com · 16d

**AUDITIONS CLOSE – 23:59 BST**

Not yet submitted your audition to @iambapoet.com? You're in luck – there's time left!

If you're still thinking about it, think about this instead: two years is a long time to wait till auditions reopen in Sep 2027.

So go on. Be bold. Whip out your mic – and do it!

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 17d

It's come around fast, but it's here at last: your final chance to try out for a place in @iambapoet.com in either 2026 or 2027.

Fewer than 20 spaces remain – so head over to iambapoet.com/audition before 23:59 BST today and submit your poem.

Auditions won't reopen till Sep 2027, so don't wait!! 😉

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you for reading and sharing, my friend. 💛