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Nikki Wallschlaeger

Nikki Wallschlaeger’s work has been featured or is forthcoming in Nation, Georgia Review, Brick, Witness, American Poetry Review, POETRY, and others. She is the author of the full-length collections Houses (Horseless Press, 2015) and Crawlspace (Bloof, 2017), as well as the graphic chapbook I Hate Telling You How I Really Feel (Bloof Books, 2016). She lives in the Driftless region of Wisconsin with her family.

Nature’s Nature

Mar/Apr 2021

Talking about the Weather

By Nikki Wallschlaeger

is a sacred formality, it’s casual tho — anyone can improvise on it, we’re all welcomed to pontificate on the distribution of the weather, by homemade customs, long ago, Earth’s tangible twists, […]

Nature’s Nature

Mar/Apr 2021

Grapeland

By Nikki Wallschlaeger

Six of cups: a place where I can sit with my eyes half-closed, trees nibbling visibly involved in my days. Here grapes are as buoyant as balloons. A woman comes […]

Nikki Wallschlaeger

Nikki Wallschlaeger’s work has been featured or is forthcoming in Nation, Georgia Review, Brick, Witness, American Poetry Review, POETRY, and others. She is the author of the full-length collections Houses […]