Joey Nicoletti
@joeynicoletti.bsky.social
I teach. I write. I edit. My latest book is Extinction Wednesday: A Memoir. Always open to a good conversation.
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Loved to see our Italian Americana contributors reading their work at #IASANJ2025!
From L to R: journal editor Alan Gravano, Maria Giura, Joanna Clapps Herman, Peter Covino ( @universityofri.bsky.social ), @gguida.bsky.social & @joeynicoletti.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/?id...
From L to R: journal editor Alan Gravano, Maria Giura, Joanna Clapps Herman, Peter Covino ( @universityofri.bsky.social ), @gguida.bsky.social & @joeynicoletti.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/?id...
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Loved to see our Italian Americana contributors reading their work at #IASANJ2025!
From L to R: journal editor Alan Gravano, Maria Giura, Joanna Clapps Herman, Peter Covino ( @universityofri.bsky.social ), @gguida.bsky.social & @joeynicoletti.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/?id...
From L to R: journal editor Alan Gravano, Maria Giura, Joanna Clapps Herman, Peter Covino ( @universityofri.bsky.social ), @gguida.bsky.social & @joeynicoletti.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/?id...
I'm always grateful to have my work published. But this publication is especially important to me, as my poem, "Lines for Jennifer Martelli," is in this issue. Jenn was as magnificent off the page as she was on it. RIP, my incredible poetry sister.
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LINES FOR JENNIFER MARTELLI The news of your deathis a punch to my throat. Our swapped storiesand laughs stumble on my street’s sidewalk,blanketed with crimson leaves and a police siren’s blue wail…
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November 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I'm always grateful to have my work published. But this publication is especially important to me, as my poem, "Lines for Jennifer Martelli," is in this issue. Jenn was as magnificent off the page as she was on it. RIP, my incredible poetry sister.
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I am thrilled and grateful to have new work published! With thanks to the editorial staff of Mad Swirl for giving my poem "The Dismantling" a lovely home. Salute! 😀
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The Dismantling
When I watch TV footage of sinewy men putting enormous windowpanes and indigo hand-crafted tiles into boxes and the backs of pickup trucks, I am reminded of when I was here, decades ago, with my…
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October 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I am thrilled and grateful to have new work published! With thanks to the editorial staff of Mad Swirl for giving my poem "The Dismantling" a lovely home. Salute! 😀
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“‘Poetry,’ says Lehman, ‘is freedom.’
The emptiness of this freedom is unsettling.”
// so good; do read!! 🙏
The emptiness of this freedom is unsettling.”
// so good; do read!! 🙏
It's the end of The Best American Poetry.
I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
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I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
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Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector
When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...
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September 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“‘Poetry,’ says Lehman, ‘is freedom.’
The emptiness of this freedom is unsettling.”
// so good; do read!! 🙏
The emptiness of this freedom is unsettling.”
// so good; do read!! 🙏
I am heartbroken to hear of the passing of Jennifer Martelli. Jenn wasn't just a light: she was a singular galaxy of talent and benevolence. All condolences to her family and her many other friends: RIP, my wonderful poetry sister.
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SWWIM Every Day — SWWIM
by Jennifer Martelli —after Lucie Brock-Broido I have the boniest backhands, thick veins, too, that can take a needle, fill tubes of blood. I could make your lip bleed and swell wit...
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September 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I am heartbroken to hear of the passing of Jennifer Martelli. Jenn wasn't just a light: she was a singular galaxy of talent and benevolence. All condolences to her family and her many other friends: RIP, my wonderful poetry sister.
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I am thrilled and grateful to have new work published. With thanks to the editorial staff of Home Planet News (HPN) for giving my poem "Reading and Listening to Pat Cooper" a lovely home. Salute!
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Issue 21 nicoletti reading and talking to pat cooper - Home Planet News
back to contents Joey Nicoletti Reading and Listening to Pat Cooper How can I insult you today?It seems that quite a few people thinkthat you have to be Italianto enjoy my humor— so let me enlighten...
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September 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I am thrilled and grateful to have new work published. With thanks to the editorial staff of Home Planet News (HPN) for giving my poem "Reading and Listening to Pat Cooper" a lovely home. Salute!
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What I needed to read this week. ❤️
August 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
What I needed to read this week. ❤️
I'm honored, humbled, & overjoyed beyond measure to have a new poem in the farewell issue of Green Hills Literary Lantern (GHLL). With thanks to Joe Benevento for bringing GHLL into existence. The literary landscape is better off for it. Facts. 🙏
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Leaving the Thompson Family Farm – GHLL
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August 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I'm honored, humbled, & overjoyed beyond measure to have a new poem in the farewell issue of Green Hills Literary Lantern (GHLL). With thanks to Joe Benevento for bringing GHLL into existence. The literary landscape is better off for it. Facts. 🙏
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I couldn't be more overjoyed to have new work published if I tried! I'm grateful to the editorial staff of Mocking Heart Review for giving my prose poem, "Resolve," such a gorgeous home! Cheers! 😀🙏🥃
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RESOLVE Your hair smelled like tulips. We saw life-sized butter sculptures of Elvis Presley and a cow. People scarfed down enormous turkey drumsticks and rode Ferris wheels for hours on end. We tal…
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June 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I couldn't be more overjoyed to have new work published if I tried! I'm grateful to the editorial staff of Mocking Heart Review for giving my prose poem, "Resolve," such a gorgeous home! Cheers! 😀🙏🥃
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I couldn't be more overjoyed to have new work published if I tried! I'm grateful to Kelli Allen and Nicholas Christian for giving my poem, "A Full Stomach," such a lovely home! Cheers!
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Issue 14 Spring 2025
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May 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I couldn't be more overjoyed to have new work published if I tried! I'm grateful to Kelli Allen and Nicholas Christian for giving my poem, "A Full Stomach," such a lovely home! Cheers!
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“Our valleys will no longer sustain us” A poem by Diane di Prima.
April 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
“Our valleys will no longer sustain us” A poem by Diane di Prima.
Delighted to have new work published. With gratitude to the editorial staff of The Big Windows Review for giving "Diagnosis" such a lovely home. Cheers! thebigwindowsreview.com/2025/02/
February 2025 – THE BIG WINDOWS REVIEW
7 posts published by thehuronriverreview during February 2025
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April 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Delighted to have new work published. With gratitude to the editorial staff of The Big Windows Review for giving "Diagnosis" such a lovely home. Cheers! thebigwindowsreview.com/2025/02/
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Friends! Make your Hump Day and Night happier by checking pout this rad poetry book by Jina Ortiz. See the link below for more deets! 👍💯
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MISS UNIVERSE, poetry by Jina Ortiz — Broadstone Books
Publication Date: March 15, 2025 Paperback, 74 pages ISBN: 978-1-956782-92-9 Miss Universe: Poems by Jina Ortiz is an evocative collection of geopolitical dialogues told through the lens of inte...
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March 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Friends! Make your Hump Day and Night happier by checking pout this rad poetry book by Jina Ortiz. See the link below for more deets! 👍💯
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WNY Friends! Buffalo Peeps! Come see me perform some new work! Check the image below for more deets. Bring a friend! Bring 4! We'll have fun! Facts! 😀👍💯
February 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
WNY Friends! Buffalo Peeps! Come see me perform some new work! Check the image below for more deets. Bring a friend! Bring 4! We'll have fun! Facts! 😀👍💯
Today's poem was written by the fantastic Juan Felipe Herrera. Check it here:
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Almost Livin' Almost Dyin'
& hear my streets with ragged beats & the beats are too beat to live so the graves push out with hands that cannot touch the makers of light & the sun flames down through the roofs & the roots that sl...
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February 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Today's poem was written by the fantastic Juan Felipe Herrera. Check it here:
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Today's poem was written by the wonderful Louise Glück. Cheers!
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Mock Orange
I hate them as I hate sex, the man’s mouth sealing my mouth, the man’s paralyzing body— and the cry that always escapes, the low, humiliating premise of union— In my mind tonight I hear the question a...
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February 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Today's poem was written by the wonderful Louise Glück. Cheers!
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Today's poem is by the wonderful Robert Hayden. Cheers!
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Those Winter Sundays
Sundays too my father got up early
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February 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Today's poem is by the wonderful Robert Hayden. Cheers!
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Today's poem of the day pays tribute to the incredible Lucille Clifton. Cheers!
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homage to my hips
these hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do.
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February 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Today's poem of the day pays tribute to the incredible Lucille Clifton. Cheers!
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Poem of the day. This is one of my favorites. Here's The Portrait by Stanley Kunitz.
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The Portrait
My mother never forgave my father
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January 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Poem of the day. This is one of my favorites. Here's The Portrait by Stanley Kunitz.
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Friends! The terrific Tina Schumann (@tms2072.bsky.social) has some poetry published. Check it!
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57.4 Self-Portrait as Pathetic Fallacy by Tina Schumann
SOUTHERN HUMANITIES REVIEW
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January 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Friends! The terrific Tina Schumann (@tms2072.bsky.social) has some poetry published. Check it!
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CNN's Jim Acosta signing off:
"I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too."
I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too.
Pass it on.
"I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too."
I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too.
Pass it on.
January 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
CNN's Jim Acosta signing off:
"I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too."
I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too.
Pass it on.
"I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too."
I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too.
Pass it on.
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It's my birthday! If you'd like to give me a lil present, please share the word about the Ossabaw Writers' Retreat, where writers take workshops, see alligators, pet donkeys, and share their work. Scholarships available! www.ossabawwritersretreat.org?gad_source=1...
Ossabaw Island Writers' Retreat Creative Writing Workshop
The Ossabaw Island Writers' Retreat is a 6-day retreat featuring creative writing workshops, readings and craft sessions. Enjoy and learn from readings...
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January 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
It's my birthday! If you'd like to give me a lil present, please share the word about the Ossabaw Writers' Retreat, where writers take workshops, see alligators, pet donkeys, and share their work. Scholarships available! www.ossabawwritersretreat.org?gad_source=1...