Nicole Tallman
@natallman
Poet Laureate of Miami 🌴 Author of Dolce Vita⚜️Poetry & Interviews Editor for South Florida Poetry Journal ☀️ Communications Director for JackLeg Press 💙 Website: nicoletallman.com 🌈
I received a plate a few days ago that started with SLU…but fortunately didn’t continue where I feared it may be headed.
“Open a book and see this trapped time I left for you to live all over.”
Friends, please join me & @jacklegpress.bsky.social on August 6, at 7 p.m., for A Very Gay Literary Happy Hour, featuring @chenchenwrites.bsky.social, @benkline.bsky.social & Richie Hofmann followed by an open mic. 🥂 www.eventbrite.com/e/a-very-gay...
Since I’m going to see Tori Amos tomorrow night, a little poem I wrote inspired by the Goddess.
I’m just trying to do good here. If uplifting poets by placing their poems on trains is “illegal,” I’m clearly in the wrong line of work.
The sun is setting over the lake. That little bench is the seat my mother left for me to sit with her by the water after she was gone. 🥹
I have a new poem on public transit. With gratitude to the Miami-Dade Department of Transportation and Public Works. 🙏❤️
Five years ago today, a poem written and later published soon afterward in @soflopojo.bsky.social — poetry being an act of standing in solidarity with Surfside.
In honor of Cancer season, I’m revisiting this crab-forward poem inspired by the Astro Poets and published in @havehashad.com.
“I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter believes in. Very quick. Very intense, like a wolf at a live heart.” —“Frenzy,” by Anne Sexton
Summer Solstice (a new poem from the “Seasons” section of my next book,The Velvet Room, forthcoming from @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social next April) ☀️
The way I worked Dave Barry, Laura Branigan and Tom Cruise into a sonnet. youtu.be/cNOD_TrUP-M?...