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Nicole Tallman is a poet, writer, and editor. Born and raised in Michigan, she lives in Miami and serves as the official Poetry Ambassador for Miami-Dade County, Editor of Redacted Books, and Poetry and Interviews Editor for The Blue Mountain Review and South Florida Poetry Journal. She is the author five collections: Dolce Vita/Let There Be a Little Light (Bottlecap Press), Julie, or Sylvia (Thirty West Publishing), FERSACE (ELJ Editions), and Poems for the People and Something Kindred (The Southern Collective Experience (SCE) Press). She is also the creator and host of ELJ Editions/Redacted Books' Be Well Reading Series and the Lunchtime Poetry & Jazz Series at Miami-Dade County's Main Library. Find her on social media @natallman.
books
Poetry
Middle School Dance Poetry Magazine
Three Poems Great Lakes Review
Between The Lines The Miami Native
Three Food & Beverage Sonnets and Other Poems Honey Literary
Let There Be a Little Light ONLY POEMS
Three Poems iamb
Hospital Poet Lore
A Poem Called Love Pleiades
Collaborative Poem EcoTheo Review
Reciprocity Persephone's Fruit
Two Poems (White Light & Black Light) Bad Lilies
Love Poem for Miami The Miami Herald
The Velvet Room Poem in the Afternoon (Miami Book Fair, 305 Cafecito & SWWIM)
The Writer's Room The New Tropic
Montréal River Mouth Review
Four Poems Cultural Daily
Girl You Know It's True The Daily Drunk
The moon is gay (AKA Say Gay!), Pay the poets! & Taco Bell is ≥ therapy Gulf Stream Magazine
Spring Voicemail Poems
Poems with Ouija Board Starring THE FUTURE & NOT SEEN HAD
'80s Raunch Be Kind, Rewind: Nostalgic Movies Anthology
Two Poems Pidgeonholes
Dolly Style Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology
Spring The Broadkill Review
Winter HAD
I can't see Miami The Whale Road Review
Aurora Starr says... Illustrated by Jason Novak
The Man Who Said I Didn't Have The Right To Kill A "Baby" Rumors Secrets & Lies
Part 1 : 90th Birthday Tribute to Sylvia Plath THE TICKLE
Part 2 : 90th Birthday Tribute to Sylvia Plath THE TICKLE
Part 3 : 90th Birthday Tribute to Sylvia Plath THE TICKLE
Part 4 : 90th Birthday Tribute to Sylvia Plath THE TICKLE
On Reading Poems, I Now Sympathize with Daughters of Dead Mothers SWWIM
Getting Across ICEBREAKERS LIT Collaboration with Moira Walsh
Two Poems: Love & Fake Plastic Trees Limp Wrist
Dying Young HELL IS REAL: A Midwest Gothic Anthology
It's always summer in Miami 8scribo.xyz (Minted by Elisabeth Sweet)
Why my favorite oil painting is Noah Verrier's 'Grilled Cheese' the lickety~split
Nicole Wants to Write a Poem with Maureen HAD
Stranger Things 4: A Soundtrack in Gerunds The Daily Drunk
Hometel Identity Theory
Dear Barbie: Olney
Poem for Peri-Menopausal Women SWWIM
The Astro Poets Say & A Flamboyance of Flamingos HAD
Love Poem for Dr. Melfi the winnow Popular Culture Issue, Vol. 1
Poem for the Dead Dreams & Nightmares Anthology
Working the Fast Food Counter Hello, How Can I Help You Today Anthology
Love Hello America
Three Collaborative Poems theVERSEverse
STAY GOLDEN, a Daily Drunk Mag Special Zine
City of Hope & The red tide signals & What the living do The Coop
Sundays are for elegies CLOVES Literary
Poem for People Who Are Tired Hello America
Cento for 17 Mutuals Emerge Literary Journal
Dear Betty The Daily Drunk
Three Poems Roi Fainéant Press
Body Bag Roi Fainéant Press
On Sleeping On Your Pillow Sledgehammer Lit
On Finding Your Ashes In My Suitcase Sledgehammer Lit
Poem for Paris Hilton The Daily Drunk
The Holy Trinity Final Girl Bulletin Board
Two Poems Stone of Madness Press
Fersace Wine Cellar Press
Mors tē numquam sistat The Hungry Ghost Project
Poem for People Who Take Public Transit Maudlin House
Father Paul, I... The Midnight Mass Anthology
Poem for the Grieving FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art
Book of the Dead warning lines
2 Poems For People Who Are As Tired As I Am HAD
Love Poem for Fire-Star Marvelous Verses
Rifle Season trampset
2 Poems The Hallowzine
Yours Truly, Nutty Nicole It Came from Beneath the Ink!
My Friend K The Alien Buddha's House of Horrors 4
We Who Rise from Saltwater, Let's Sing! Heroic Sonnet Crown Project
Where Have You Gone? Not Deer Magazine
Semi-Cento for Surfside South Florida Poetry Journal
Dying in Two Rooms Wrongdoing Magazine
Four Poems The Blue Mountain Review
Select Readings & Other Media
Save Yourself for Better Times Miami's Favorite Poems Project
Be Well Reading Series Featuring Alessandra Lynch & Matthew Nienow
Be Well Reading Series Featuring Christian Gullette & Susan Leary
Be Well Reading Series Tribute to Maureen Seaton
Be Well Reading Series Featuring Brent Ameneyro, Bri Gonzalez & Dorsía Smith Silva
Be Well Reading Series Featuring tommy wyatt blake & Raye Hendrix
Redacted Books Launch for Ashley Elizabeth's A Family Thing
Be Well Reading Series Featuring Rosie Accola, Cavar & Ben Segal
Interview with Annie Newcomer for Flapper Press
The Poetry Space Collaboration Episode
Be Well Reading Series Featuring Richie Hofmann, Amanda Merpaw & Nicole Tallman
Redacted Books Launch for Anton Yakovlev's One Night We Will No Longer Bear the Ocean
Be Well Reading Series Featuring Jessica Jacobs, Ae Hee Lee & Angel Rosen
On the Value of Rereading Books theVERSEverse
Be Well Reading Series Featuring Adrian Dallas Frandle, Alina Stefanescu & Leah Umansky
Be Well Reading Series Featuring Suzanne Frischkorn, Lynne Kemen & Eugenia Leigh
Be Well Reading Series Featuring Jubi Arriola-Headley, KB Brookins & Taylor Byas
Be Well Reading Series Featuring Sarah Ghazal Ali, Jane Huffman & Sara Moore Wagner
Interview with Caridad Moro-Gronlier for The Blue Mountain Review
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levina Cava Reads Sonnet I by Maureen Seaton & Nicole Tallman
Review of Poems for the People by A.R.Arthur for Full House Literary
Interview with Natalie La Roche Pietri for Miami Book Fair
Interview with Lenny DellaRocca for South Florida Poetry Journal's Miami Book Fair Author Series
Reading for La maja desnuda radio at Miami Book Fair
Interview with Black Lawrence Press
Be Well Reading Series Featuring Jaswinder Bolina, Leslie Sainz & Pantea Amin Tofangchi
Interview with Carlos Frías for WLRN's Sundial (South Florida's NPR affiliate)
Happy Hour Book Launch for FERSACE Featuring Jared Beloff, Richard Blanco, Ariel Francisco & Caridad Moro-Gronlier
Miami Women Speak Their Minds at Miami Book Fair miamiartzine
Be Well Reading Series Featuring Jessica Cuello, Adam O. Davis & Dorothea Lasky
Portals: a Tribute to Maureen Breaking Form Podcast with Aaron Smith & James Allen Hall
Queer News Tonight Anchor Segment Happening Out Television Network
Be Well Reading Series Featuring Richard Blanco, Ana Maria Caballero & Ariel Francisco
Lecture on the intersection of music & poetry PIANO SLAM 2024
Be Well Reading Series Featuring Clifford Brooks, Jen Karetnick & Travis Chi Wing Lau
Queering the Publishing Industrial Complex OutWrite DC LGBTQ Literary Festival
Be Well Reading Series Featuring Dustin Brookshire, Alex Carrigan & Erik Fuhrer
Second Sunday Pride and Joy Reading
Be Well Reading Series Featuring P. Scott Cunningham, J.D. Isip & Denton Loving
Redacted Books Launch for Maureen Seaton's The Sky Is an Elephant
Interview with Dustin Brookshire for FLAWN
Be Well Reading Series Featuring Steve Bellin-Oka, Caridad Moro-Gronlier & Dior J. Stephens
Be Well Reading Series Featuring Jared Beloff, Chen Chen & Joan Kwon Glass
Be Well Reading Series Kickoff Featuring Jack Bedell, Elisa Gabbert & AE Hines
Review of Poems for the People by Scott Neuffer for trampset
Reading with the VERSEVerse for Art Basel at Miami Beach Regional Library
Launch of Miami's Favorite Poems Project with Richard Blanco Miami Book Fair
Reading with Nicole Sealey at The Besty South Beach for SWWIM
Interview with The New Tropic for Miami Book Fair
Interview with Elisa Albo for South Florida Poetry Journal's Miami Book Fair Author Series
Reading & Craft Talk for PIANO SLAM 2023
Twitter Spaces Chats Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4 with THE TICKLE for Sylvia Plath Tribute
Review of Something Kindred by Alex Carrigan for North of Oxford
Twitter Spaces - SuperRare Genesis Chat with TheVERSEverse
conVERSEverse Interview
Wild & Precious Life Series Reading
Twitter Spaces - Infinite Knowledge | poem = work of art with the VERSEverse
1455's 4th Annual SummerFest Reading Redefining "Southern"
Interview with Valentino Assenza HOWL CIUT.FM
My Bad Poetry Podcast Part 1 and Part 2
Word Thursdays Bright Hill Press Reading
Review of Something Kindred by Ami J. Sanghvi the winnow
Artist Reading & Discussion for POEM = WORK OF ART Exhibit Closing Party
Interview with OÖ Art for POEM = WORK OF ART Exhibit
Lighthearted Interview Hello America Lit
Editors Talk Poetry Acceptances Frontier Poetry Journal
Interview with Michael Amidei & Cliff Brooks This Business of Music & Poetry Podcast
Interview with Carolina del Busto Miami New Times
Interview with Alison Nissen The Florida Writers Podcast
On Finding Your Ashes in My Suitcase The Chapbook With Noah Stetzer & Ross White
"Sundays are for elegies" featured on Cease, Cows' List of 365 Prose Poems
Heroic Sonnet Crown Reading for O, Miami Poetry Festival
Heroic Sonnet Crown Reading for Mayor Levine Cava
STAY GOLDEN Reading for The Daily Drunk Magazine
It Came from Beneath the Ink! An R.L. Stine Tribute Anthology Reading
Marvelous Verses Anthology Reading
Performance Poets of the Palm Beaches Reading with Michael Mackin O'Mara
On Reading Poems, I Now Sympathize with Daughters of Dead Mothers Audio Recording
Dante's Old South NPR Interview with Clifford Brooks
Exceptional Poetry From Around the Web Frontier Poetry
Interview with Clifford Brooks The Blue Mountain Review
Brooklyn Poets' The Bridge Poem of the Day January 4, 2022 for Poem for People Who Take Pubic Transit
Brooklyn Poets' The Bridge Poem of the Day January 13, 2022 for Poem for People Who Don't Like Poems
Some SoFloPoJo Editors List Their Picks for the Top 10 Poems of All Time
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A Tribute to Maureen Seaton The Blue Mountain Review
Interview with Marie Howe for for South Florida Poetry Journal's Miami Book Fair Author Series
Interview with Danez Smith for for South Florida Poetry Journal's Miami Book Fair Author Series
Poetry Editor for the December 2023 Issue of The Blue Mountain Review
Interview with Dorothea Lasky The Blue Mountain Review
Interview with Adrian Matejka for South Florida Poetry Journal's Miami Book Fair Author Series
Interview with Maggie Smith for South Florida Poetry Journal's Miami Book Fair Author Series
Editor of The Sky Is an Elephant by Maureen Seaton (ELJ Editions' Redacted Books Series)
Poetry Editor for the September 2023 Issue of The Blue Mountain Review
Interview with Ana Maria Caballero The Blue Mountain Review
Poetry Editor for the May 2023 Issue of The Blue Mountain Review
Interviews with Gabrielle Bates & Jared Beloff The Blue Mountain Review
Poetry Editor for the December 2022 Issue of The Blue Mountain Review
Poetry Editor for the September 2022 Issue of The Blue Mountain Review
Interview with Elisa Gabbert The Blue Mountain Review
Interview with Victoria Chang for South Florida Poetry Journal's Miami Book Fair Author Series
Interview with Paul Tran for South Florida Poetry Journal's Miami Book Fair Author Series
Interviews with Richard Blanco & Michael Chang The Blue Mountain Review
Interview with Diane Seuss The Blue Mountain Review
Interview with Jill Bialosky South Florida Poetry Journal
Interview with Joseph Fasano The Blue Mountain Review
Interview with Faylita Hicks The Blue Mountain Review
Interviews with Chen Chen & Jose Hernandez Diaz The Blue Mountain Review
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