In 1504, a small calico cleaned her paw near a roughwell. Two children threw sticks a few yards away. And the sun reflected off them and traveledback out of an atmosphere no one yet understood….
Posts Published by John A. Nieves
John A. Nieves has poems forthcoming or recently published in journals such as: Hopkins Review, Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, swamp pink and New Ohio Review. A 2025 Pushcart Prize winner, he also won the Indiana Review Poetry Contest and his first book, Curio, won the Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award Judge’s Prize. He is associate professor of English at Salisbury University and an editor of The Shore Poetry.