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Nicelle Davis is in love with words. She can’t get enough of them. She eats them and then cooks them in her warm belly until they come out like unplanned babies. She wants the best for her poem-children and is open to parental advice. Her hope is for poems to thrive. She wants her poem kids to play with your poem kids. She wants them all to drink purple cool-aid together and climb trees.
The front-side of my knees look like this:
The Fertil Source, The Fetile Source
Pank Magazine August 09, PANK Magazine August 10, Pank Magazine January 2011
The Pedestal Magazine #52, The Pedestal Magazine #55, The Pedestal Magazine #59
Verdad Magazine, Verdad Magazine
The back-side of my knees look like this:
My paper knees Look like this:
Periodicals—Poetry Publications 2011
A cappella Zoo: “Cat and Mouse Act,” “On its Haunches,” “In a Note Not Given to the Addressee,” “A letter from the dream self,” “Entering the Big Top of the Self Requires Help”
JMWW : “The Wings inside our Stomachs”
Mosaic: “Clowns Promise What Can’t be Delivered,” “Dear Sir”
New York Quarterly (200?) : “Dream Boy,” “Unlikely Origins and the Book of Mormon”
Periodicals—Poetry Publications 201o
A cappella Zoo: “Sideshow Serpentina: the Last of the Split-Tailed Mermaids”
Blue Mesa Review Issue 23: “Studies in Monogamy: Uncle George’s Last Request for Aunt Helen”
Caesura: “Flip a Coin” =
Front Range Review Issue 5: “Gifts of a Shape-shifter”
FuseLit: “Disclaimer: Assumptions Made by This Homemade Religion”
Phantom Seed: “How a Dry Lake Bed Feels when it Rains,” “City on Fire: California Riots”
Illya’s Honey: “Denny’s All Nighters,” “Change These Bones”
The Mom Egg Vol.8: “Mother”
Mosaic Literary Journal: “Complications in the art of Monogamy: Conjoined Twins,” “Enough Time,” “Let Us Say This is the End of the World,” “Prepared for You”
Moulin Review: “Instructions to Understanding Mother,” “Poison Control and the Old Neighborhood”
Redaction Poetry & Poetics: “Carbon Monoxide Poisoning”
Slab Magazine : “The Middle School Scab Eater”
San Pedro River ReviewL “Madame Moustache’s Last Game of Poker”
Superficial Flesh: “Stolen From the Mouth of Thunder”
Transcurrent Literary Journal: “I Fall Asleep Reading Revelations in My Grandmother’s House”
Two Review: “Studies in Monogamy,” “Flash” Two Review
Weave : “In the Hour of Temptation, I Get My Punk-Rock Self Back”
Bad Light “Jesus in the Gospel of Judas” (2009)
Third Wednesday “Duende” (2009)
Words and Images “All the Hope Found in the Sent of Sickness” (2007)
My second-hand stockings look like this:
Mom Egg Guest Blog
Mama\’s Experience Initiative Guest Blog
And when I kick, my knees look like this:
Reviews and Interviews for PANK blog:
Terese Svoboda’s Wild Tongue: A Review of Trailer Girl and Weapons Grade
The Heart\’s Traffice: A Review
A Review in Comics: Adam Gallari’s We Are Never As Beautiful as We Are Now
A Reader’s Rapture: A Review of Maurya Simon’s The Raindrop’s Gospel
Dissecting the Paper Monster: A Review of Peter Schwartz’s Old Men, Girls, and Monsters Part 1
Dissecting the Paper Monster: A Review of Peter Schwartz’s Old Men, Girls, and Monsters Part 2
Boundaries before Borders: A Review of Alba Cruz-Hacker’s No Honey For Wild Beasts
A Visual Review of Ann Carson’s Nox
Dawn Potter the Frank Zappa of Poetry: A Review of How The Crimes Happen
Haunted: A Review of Maureen Alsop’s Apparition Wren
Word Play: A Photo Book Review of Marjorie Tesser’s The Important Thing Is…Card Game
Divinia is Divina by Jack Wiler
The Maze of Diane Lockward’s Temptation by Water
Review for Connotation Press:
Jerry Williams Its Not You its Me: the poetry of breakups
Book Review – Callings, by Carl Dennis
Testimonial from the adventurer-poet Charles Hood
Why I Hate Nicelle
I do not hate Nicelle, I hate that Nicelle is right at least 85% of the time when she edits, which is to say, of course I hate
Nicelle. First of all, I am 135 years old (though young by vampire standards) and she is what, 16, maybe 18? She cannot be right so often. It is not fair. And the way that she is right is so deferential and charming, you can’t but help to want to shoot her with some kind of small, concealed weapon. You will have a poem—it took you ten years to write—and she will look at it and say, ever so charmingly and deferentially, “Oh, yes, what a lovely little haiku series about zebras. It is really very fine. There is just one thing. It is a very small thing, I am probably wrong. Just a small thing. But maybe what this poem is trying to be is an epic about giraffes.” And so you tell her to go eff herself and you go away muttering about the impertinence of youth. Giraffes, wtf etc, GIRAFFES, you do not even like giraffes, you are the zebra expert after all. And so just to prove her wrong you write an opera about giraffes using all the best energy from the zebra haiku cycle and sure enough, that was what it wanted to be all along. That is why I hate Nicelle. Excuse me, the sun is coming up, I have to go inside now. Good night.
Dear Nicelle,
How cool is this project you’ve put together? Seriously, I’m really digging it. In fact, I’m going to try and figure out how to post one of my poems for your group to viscerate. That’d be freakin’ sweet! Anyway, congrats, congrats, congrats! If there’s anything we can do over at ConPress to help you publicize, just let me know.
Hope the world keeps spinning your way,
| Posted 2 years, 7 months ago~k
Dear Nicelle, Love the website, the idea(s), and I posted a poem…but can’t find where all the posted poems are. Can you direct me? Thanks…D.
| Posted 2 years, 7 months agoHi, Nicelle,
I enjoyed “The Night Circe Cannot Remember” in The Pedestal Magazine so much that I decided to hunt you down online and tell you. It’s a fantastic poem.
Warmly,
Katie Manning
P.S. I edit poetry for Rougarou: An Online Journal (http://english.louisiana.edu/rougarou). Please check us out.
| Posted 1 year, 7 months ago