bio

Nicole Tallman is a poet, ghostwriter, and editor. Born and raised in Michigan, she lives in Miami, serves as the Poetry Ambassador for Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, Poetry and Interviews Editor for The Blue Mountain Review, and an Associate Editor for South Florida Poetry Journal. She is the author of Something Kindred (The Southern Collective Experience (SCE) Press), and her next two books, POEMS FOR THE PEOPLE and FERSACE, are forthcoming in 2023 from SCE Press and Redacted Books, respectively. She is also the editor of STAY GOLDEN, a Golden Girls-inspired special zine published by The Daily Drunk, and co-editor with Maureen Seaton of We Who Rise from Saltwater, Let's Sing!, a collaborative Heroic Sonnet Crown for the Mayor and residents of Miami-Dade County. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @natallman.

Poetry

I can't see Miami The Whale Road Review

Aurora Starr says... Illustrated by Jason Novak

2 Poems (Summer and Fall) HAD

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

2 Poems: Love and 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

3 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

3 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

2 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

4 Poems The Blue Mountain Review

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

Readings & Other Media

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

Reading and 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 North of Oxford

Interviews with Richard Blanco and Michael Chang The Blue Mountain Review

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

Interview with Diane Seuss The Blue Mountain Review

My Bad Poetry Podcast

Word Thursdays Bright Hill Press Reading

Review of Something Kindred the winnow

Artist Reading and 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 and 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

Reading and Conversation with Miami-Dade County Inaugural Poet Laureate Richard Blanco MDPLS Virtual Author Series

"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

Interview with Jill Bialosky South Florida Poetry Journal

Dante's Old South NPR Interview with Clifford Brooks

Interview with Aura Martin

Interviews with Joseph Fasano and others The Blue Mountain Review

Interview with Faylita Hicks and others The Blue Mountain Review

Interviews with Chen Chen and Jose Hernandez Diaz The Blue Mountain Review

Exceptional Poetry From Around the Web Frontier Poetry

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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