"The Secret of May" and "Ephemera"
James B. Nicola
James B. Nicola's poems have appeared in Antioch Review, Southwest Review, Atlanta Review, Rattle, and Barrow Street. His seven full-length collections (2014-22) are Manhattan Plaza, Stage to Page, Wind in the Cave, Out of Nothing, Quickening, Fires of Heaven, and Turns & Twists. His nonfiction book Playing the Audience won a Choice award. He has received a Dana Literary Award, two Willow Review awards, and a Storyteller's People's Choice award. He has also gotten a Best of Net, a Rhysling, and ten Pushcart Prize nominations.
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