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Nicholas Alexander Hayes
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chicago-based writer, educator
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Quoting Eugene Debs piques my interest in a politician…

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November 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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#poetry as excrement , as fluid, as adhesive, as “as”
#poems #xenopoem
October 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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A post about my work…

The Body as Vector on the Work of Nicholas Alexander Hayes: An Analysis of Infection, Language, and Technobiological Poetics in Posthuman Literature

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A Beginner's Glossary to Posthuman Biolinguistics Introduction: Welcome to the World of Living Language Welcome to a guide designed to help you navigate the fascinat www.academia.edu nich...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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good idea! https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/in-green-carnations-by-nicholas-alexander-hayes
September 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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September 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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September 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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The Incorruptible (french revolution)
August 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Featured Poetry by Nicholas Alexander Hayes and Drawings by Tomer Rosenthal
doggstyle Nicholas Alexander Hayes, 2024 Tomer Rosenthal, “Sphinx II,” charcoal on paper (2019)           dark regions    &nb…
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August 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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work at Cephalophore with images by Tomer Rosenthal.

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Featured Poetry by Nicholas Alexander Hayes and Drawings by Tomer Rosenthal
doggstyle Nicholas Alexander Hayes, 2024 Tomer Rosenthal, “Sphinx II,” charcoal on paper (2019)           dark regions    &nb…
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August 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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work at Cephalophore with images by Tomer Rosenthal.

cultofcephalophore.wordpress.com/2025/07/20/f...
Featured Poetry by Nicholas Alexander Hayes and Drawings by Tomer Rosenthal
doggstyle Nicholas Alexander Hayes, 2024 Tomer Rosenthal, “Sphinx II,” charcoal on paper (2019)           dark regions    &nb…
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August 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Nicholas Alexander Hayes’ chapbook IN GREEN CARNATIONS will ship next week! @brokenzipper.bsky.social
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" Hungry ghost, must I sing
you vespers as I light incense of pubic hair and green carnations.”

You can now pre-order Nicholas Alexander Hayes’ IN GREEN CARNATIONS!
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What stale musk erodes the perfume of jasmine as Mroz sits facing an alley constipated with bulging dumpsters impatiently staring at the orange paper cut of sunset. In writhing obligate anxiety and flirting with insensibility, he descends between the tagged walls, craving adulteration. A fractured, ersatz. Eames chair spills negentropy Brothers pick through the piles looking for scrap. Bottoms in the recycling. Macnads in the grease traps. Bromius looks for glory holes or rat nests. Mroz smells Erl, famished, libidinous shadow, borning the gutter for stray sapphires and tracking scavenging Mroz abandons the narrow canals of detritus distancing himself from fruitful gleaners. Er follows him into the empty avenue as two bunnies chase each other underneath abandoned cars. Pausing, Mroz whispers, " Hungry ghost, must I sing you vespers as I light incense of pubic hair and green carnations.'
July 3, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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New poems at blazevox: “what we risk in love and what we risk to live”

#poetry #poems

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May 13, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Upcoming!

Eneida P. Alcalde’s THE WEALTH WE SURRENDERED
Amílcar Peter Sanatan’s THE BLACK FLÂNEUR
Ali C’s Night OF THE FIRE
& Nicholas Alexander Hayes’ IN GREEN CARNATIONS
April 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Best meatless things I ate in New Orleans: Fried Sun Chokes @ the Sneaky Pickle; Pimento Cheese Rangoons @ Beachbum Berry's Latitude 29; and FouFou & Black-Eyed Peas (Kone ni Makondo) @ Benna'chin.
April 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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" Hungry ghost, must I sing
you vespers as I light incense of pubic hair and green carnations.”

You can now pre-order Nicholas Alexander Hayes’ IN GREEN CARNATIONS!
@brokenzipper.bsky.social

www.ethelzine.com/shop/in-gree...
What stale musk erodes the perfume of jasmine as Mroz sits facing an alley constipated with bulging dumpsters impatiently staring at the orange paper cut of sunset. In writhing obligate anxiety and flirting with insensibility, he descends between the tagged walls, craving adulteration. A fractured, ersatz. Eames chair spills negentropy Brothers pick through the piles looking for scrap. Bottoms in the recycling. Macnads in the grease traps. Bromius looks for glory holes or rat nests. Mroz smells Erl, famished, libidinous shadow, borning the gutter for stray sapphires and tracking scavenging Mroz abandons the narrow canals of detritus distancing himself from fruitful gleaners. Er follows him into the empty avenue as two bunnies chase each other underneath abandoned cars. Pausing, Mroz whispers, " Hungry ghost, must I sing you vespers as I light incense of pubic hair and green carnations.'
April 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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it’s 8:20pm. Cops have blocked off the street- lights but no sirens. A congregation slowly walks past holding candles singing lowly. every so often someone prays through a loud speaker. Andrew is in the garden planting things holding a flashlight.
April 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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my poem The Pétroleuse is up on Reap Thrill. it’s a sort of revolutionary phantasy that feels timely to me…

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"The Pétroleuse" - Nicholas Alexander Hayes - r e a p t h r i l l
Nicholas Alexander Hayes is a Chicago-based writer and educator. He is the author of Lexicartographies (BlazeVOX), No Wish Unfulfilled (Alien Buddha Press), and the forthcoming In Green Carnation (Eth...
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April 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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February 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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I hope everyone is enjoying their day…
January 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Awful 😭
A three panel comic of peter parker 1: he's holding up a book, on the cover it says "How to write a book" 2: the open pages read: "Write the book" 3: Peter crying
November 24, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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I have a new chapbook scheduled with Ethel Zine in 2025. more info to come. #queerlit #poetry #fiction (or well poetic fiction…)
November 19, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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I’ve placed a favorite story at 2 journals. Both folded a couple of months after the acceptance. Maybe the story is so loved it’s cursed.
November 16, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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November 6, 2024 at 10:15 AM
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Sharing a rare political meme that I thought @divinetailor.bsky.social might appreciate
October 4, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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Skaro or Milwaukee
June 10, 2024 at 2:46 PM