NICOLE TALLMAN

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NICOLE TALLMAN

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Nicole Tallman is a professional writer and poet. Born and raised in Michigan, she lives in Miami, serves as the Legislative Affairs Director and Poetry Ambassador for Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, an Associate Editor for South Florida Poetry Journal, and Interviews Editor for The Blue Mountain Review. She is the author Something Kindred (The Southern Collective Experience Press), co-editor with Maureen Seaton of We Who Rise from Saltwater, Let's Sing!, and her debut full-length collection is forthcoming in the summer of 2022.

Recent publications

 

  • "Poem for Paris Hilton," The Daily Drunk: https://dailydrunkmag.com/2022/01/25/poem-for-paris-hilton/
  • "The Holy Trinity," Final Girl Bulletin Board: https://dailydrunkmag.com/2022/01/22/the-holy-trinity/
  • "Hippophobia" and "The Doctor Says I'm Too Presentable To Be Anything But Normal," Stone of Madness Press: https://stoneofmadnesspress.com/nicole-tallman
  • "Fersace," Wine Cellar Press: https://winecellarpress.com/fersace/
  • "On Finding Your Ashes In My Suitcase," Sledgehammer Lit: https://www.sledgehammerlit.com/post/on-finding-your-ashes-in-my-suitcase-by-nicole-tallman
  • "Mors tē numquam sistat, "The Hungry Ghost Project: https://hungryghostproject.com/product/hungry-ghost-magazine-issue-two-winter-2021/
  • "Poem for People Who Take Public Transit," Maudlin House: https://maudlinhouse.net/poem-for-people-who-take-public-transit/
  • "Father Paul, I...", The Midnight Mass Anthology: https://midnightmassanth.wixsite.com/home 
  • "Poem for the Grieving," FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art: https://feralpoetry.net/poem-for-the-grieving-by-nicole-tallman/
  • "Book of the Dead," warning lines: https://bit.ly/3Dmz8RF
  • "2 Poems For People Who Are As Tired As I Am," HAD: https://www.havehashad.com/hadposts/2-poems-for-people-who-are-as-tired-as-i-am
  • "Love Poem for Fire-Star aka Fire Star aka Angelica 'Angel' Jones," Marvelous Verses: https://www.amazon.com/Marvelous-Verses-Jared-Beloff/dp/B09M2XQ7RY
  • "Rifle Season," trampset: https://trampset.org/rifle-season-e9b795e2aab
  • Interview with Aura Martin: https://auramartin.weebly.com/interviews/nicole-tallman
  • "Poem with Ouija Board" and "Every Halloween, I am a Surgeon," The Hallowzine:  https://www.thehallowzine.com/issue-2
  • "Yours Truly, Nutty Nicole," It Came from Beneath the Ink! An R.L. Stine Tribute Anthology: https://elj-editions.com/it-came-from-beneath-the-ink/
  • "My Friend K Tells Me the Story of Her Dead Cat, Estranged Father & Dating Dilemmas," The Alien Buddha's House of Horrors 4: https://amzn.to/3C7137e
  • "We Who Rise from Saltwater, Let's Sing!": https://www.miamidade.gov/global/government/mayor/poetry/we-who-rise-from-saltwater-lets-sing.page
  • "Where Have You Gone?",  Not Deer Magazine:  https://www.notdeermagazine.com/post/where-have-you-gone-nicole-tallman
  • Cover Interview with Faylita Hicks and Interview with Lenny DellaRocca and Michael Mackin O'Mara, The Blue Mountain Review: https://issuu.com/collectivemedia/docs/bluemountainreviewseptember2021
  • "Semi-Cento for Surfside," South Florida Poetry Journal: https://www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/surfside.html
  • Cover Interview with Chen Chen and Interview with Jose Hernandez Diaz, The Blue Mountain Review: https://issuu.com/collectivemedia/docs/bluemountainreviewjune2021
  • "Dying in Two Rooms," Wrongdoing Magazine: https://www.wrongdoingmag.com/spring-2021.html
  • "On Aging During a Pandemic," "the new normal," "On Grieving," "On Reading Poems, I Now Sympathize with Daughters of Dead Mothers," The Blue Mountain Review:  https://issuu.com/collectivemedia/docs/bluemountainreviewfeb21
  • "Some SoFloPoJo Editors List Their Picks for the Top 10 Poems of All Time," South Florida Poetry Review:    https://www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/favorite-poems.html






We Who Rise from Saltwater, Let's Sing! (pdf)

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Readings & other Media


  • Brooklyn Poets' The Bridge Poem of the Day: January 4, 2022 for "Poem for People Who Take Pubic Transit": https://poetsbridge.org/home
  • Brooklyn Poets' The Bridge Poem of the Day: January 13, 2022 for "Poem for People Who Don't Like Poems": https://poetsbridge.org/home
  • Heroic Sonnet Crown Reading  for Mayor Levine Cava: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq0rVQGQ334
  • "Exceptional Poetry From Around the Web, Frontier: https://www.frontierpoetry.com/2021/11/17/exceptional-poetry-from-around-the-web-october-2021/
  • It Came from Beneath the Ink! An R.L. Stine Tribute Anthology Reading: https://bit.ly/3C6E2S3
  • Performance Poets of the Palm Beaches Reading with Michael Mackin O'Mara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fHurueWXQI
  • "On Reading Poems, I Now Sympathize with Daughters of Dead Mothers": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2JYrsga3vE
  •  Dante's Old South, NPR Interview with Clifford Brooks: https://apple.co/3gNWarm







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Writing Tips

Coming out of the shadows: How to become a ghostwriter

It takes a certain type of personality to thrive as a ghostwriter. If you love the spotlight or seeing your own name in print, ghostwriting is not the career for you. A ghostwriter is just that: a ghost or relatively invisible presence who writes for another person and rarely gets credit for his or her words. If you're into the Myers-Briggs thing, I'm an INFJ, which I've been told is fairly common among writers -- those who ghost and those who write for themselves.


Personality-typing aside, a successful ghostwriter must, above all, learn to think like another person altogether, and to then learn how to write and/or speak like that person would write and/or speak. Sound difficult? It can be. But, I have some tips to get you started on a ghost-writing career of your own. 


Back in 2016, I was interviewed by my undergraduate alma mater (Grand Valley State University) for an article about what it takes to be a mayoral speechwriter -- a particularly special ghostwriting position. You can read that interview here:

https://gvsuapr.wordpress.com/2016/11/10/alumna-is-speechwriter-for-miami-mayor/.

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This is my personal typewriter, which I love, but never use for ghostwriting,  

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