Nickole Brown is the author of two collections of poetry, Fanny Says (BOA Editions, 2015); and Sister, a novel-in-poems (Red Hen Press, 2007); and the anthology, Air Fare (Sarabande Books, 2004), which she co-edited with Judith Taylor. She graduated from The Vermont College of Fine Arts and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. She has received grants […]
Nickole Brown talks about, and reads, one of her favorite poems, Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s “Song.”
Nickole Brown talks about reading her poems aloud when she writes.
Nickole Brown talks about her writing time.
Curtis Bauer, Nickole Brown, Jamaal May, Layli Long Soldier, Ross Gay, and Tarfia Faizullah, recorded live in Los Angeles, on April 2, 2016, at the AWP event, “From the Fishouse, a 12-Year Anniversary Celebration and Reading.”
We have heard her tell the story over and again, like this: an early spring tornado, a still, yellow sky, nuns who said must have felt better going in than it does coming out as they gave her a hot compress and dimmed the lights for pain. She was half my age now, barely healed […]
That year was the cyanide hiding in the stone of a peach. Look, how yellow the photographs, a nicotine sheen on our happy days, a disease roiling out of the Congo to lay flat my first fathers before I learned to spell their names. Eric, for example, Erique, with that surprise ending to match his […]
Few memories, those years besides the smell of dead kittens under the car and the cucumber of copperheads crisping the creek where I waded with a net from our above-ground pool to scoop up black tadpoles and crawdads, the adrenaline flash of minnows silvering an orange bucket. Few memories of you, nothing to say about […]