HUMAN.
POET. TEACHER.
MICHELLE (M.A.) NICHOLSON is a New Orleans poet, editor, educator, journalist, and arts-organizer with work featured in Best New Poets 2022 and Winter in America (Again anthologies, as well as Trampoline Poetry, Peauxdunque Review, Diode Poetry Journal, New Orleans Review, Tilted House Review, and elsewhere.
An M.F.A. graduate from the University of New Orleans—where she served as Associate Poetry Editor for Bayou Magazine—M.A. was the recipient of the 2021 Andrea-Saunders Gereighty Academy of American Poets Award and was Kenyon Review’s 2024 Peter Taylor Fellow.
ABOUT AROUND THE GATE
In this debut collection, M. A. Nicholson opens up a telescopic view of New Orleans, past and present. Carolyne Wright, judge for the 2024 Hilary Tham Capital Collection, chose this collection for publication because of its “dark humor and the spirited persistence of the speaker and her fellow New Orleanian guides” who propel readers “through situations that present oblique, often unexpected views.”
According to Wright, Nicholson’s speaker and characters embody not the raucous New Orleans presented to tourists but instead “engage in more contemplative reflections and recollections, inviting readers to experience illuminating resonances as these poems go on ‘delivering / sustenance: / delivering / song.’”
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