From PSH’s website:

“Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday, January 10 2010 @ 2:00 pm PDT/5:00 pm EDT
Call in and read your poetry, open mic style. No content or style restrictions. Share details about your local poetry community with our listeners. We want to hear you!

Our Live events are hosted through BlogTalk Radio and can be accessed during the event by visiting http://blogtalkradio.com/psh and clicking on the “Click to Listen” button.

You can listen to the shows through your web browser as well as call in and ask questions live through by dialing (646) 716-7362 during the live broadcast.”
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Literally, poets from all over the world have read on these broadcasts. You know yours truly will be dialing in and reading. I encourage any poet who wants to and who can read to join in!

To check out Poetry Super Highway or find out more, visit:

http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html

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The December Edition of Poetry Super Highway Worldwide Open Reading is online now! I read my poem “I, Too, Say Amen” on the show, and other poets from Orange County, CA, Newark, NJ, Sioux St. Marie, Canada, Columbia, SC, New South Wales, Australia, Santa Monica, CA, Birmingham, AL and Saskatchewan, Canada read their pieces on the show.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/psh/2009/12/06/december-2009-worldwide-open-reading.

The next show is scheduled for Sunday, January 10, 2010 @ 2:00 PM Pacific/5:00 PM Eastern. For more information, see the PSH Live website.

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From PSH’s website:

“Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday, December 6 2009 @ 2:00 pm PDT/5:00 pm EDT
Call in and read your poetry, open mic style. No content or style restrictions. Share details about your local poetry community with our listeners. We want to hear you!

Our Live events are hosted through BlogTalk Radio and can be accessed during the event by visiting http://blogtalkradio.com/psh and clicking on the “Click to Listen” button.

You can listen to the shows through your web browser as well as call in and ask questions live through by dialing (646) 716-7362 during the live broadcast.”
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Literally, poets from all over the world have read on these broadcasts. You know yours truly will be dialing in and reading. I encourage any poet who wants to and who can read to join in!

To check out Poetry Super Highway or find out more, visit:

http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html

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The November Edition of Poetry Super Highway Worldwide Open Reading is online now! I read my poem “Eclipse” on the show, and other poets from California, New Jersey, Florida, and Alabama read their pieces on the show. Also, the first place winner of the annual Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest read his poem on the show. You can listen to the show at:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/psh/2009/11/01/November-2009-Worldwide-Open-Reading.

The next show is scheduled for Sunday, December 5, 2009 @ 2:00 PM Pacific/5:00 PM Eastern. For more information, see the PSH Live website.

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Fair Fireworks by Aurburnne Wyork

This poem was written for two reasons: 1) it’s (I think) #2 in the series some persona poems that I am working on, and 2) for Read Write Poem Prompt #98: Whee!. The persona is actually one my my alter egos, Nick Raven. Without further explanation, I’ll give you the poem below. Enjoy.

-Nicole
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They think I’m part of the carnival acts. I slip
in and out of shadows, tent pole magic in thin, lanky lines of sable
and squares of canvas casting liquid rhombi of black
upon the ground. All of this, created
by sallow, maudlin, and rainbow lights. The skin
of this exuberant monstrosity is littered with them, and it stinks
of popcorn, cakes made of tangled messes of fried squiggle, and syrup
recast into clouds of pale color and dancing
on the ends of sticks.

My white moon face is an echo
of the round woman above, hanging in the black suspended by nothing
and watching silently. Below her, the unkindness of my companions
hovers above the spinning wheels of light,
a flock of double-arched invisible parentheses
enclosing the stars between their bodies
like an afterthought to this loud noise of a place. One of my friends
perches on my shoulder, pupils darting around his vision arc
to capture it all into his brain. Wisely, he does not caw,
although his gritty black song would be barely noticeable
above the red, white, and blue piped notes
of the calliope sounding behind our backs.

I lean against canvas and let it caress my side. I part
the inky curtain of dim sight, staring intent
into the midway. A swollen parade of young couples, large families,
and teenage gaggles passes by, changing shape and color
marcher by marcher. This molasses crowd
flows past the lights, past the sick stick frames of neon and metal,
spilling over side brims into the grass and booths around me. I want to
watch, watch, and keep watching. Maybe a face will erase
the veil that stands guard in front of my pre-peripatetic memories
and holds them for ransom from me – and I have yet to find out
its asking price. Only shutter blinks of pictures
ever resurface, and even then, they are shattered bits of time:
in mid-breath, they are gone again.
I keep trying to lay pieces side by side,
reconnect their sharp edges, line up triangles to form a square –
but the middle gapes its mouth open,
sucks in the stars beneath my velvet glove fingers.

Above my head, a fountain spray of candy-colored fire
blooms in the black, arching in impossible fleur-de-lis configurations
that birth themselves and then die
for the amusement of the crowd below. Their sudden extinction
is heralded by the fanfare of the asphalt-bound
in trumpets of oooh and aaaaah. Underneath the umbrella of spindly light,
a boy spots me and calls my black and white freeze-frame
out of invisibility.

“Hey, mister!”

I spin and duck behind the tent. The silver buttons
of my cavalry coat clink a rattled tune of flat chimes. Only I
hear their music. It calls me
to disappear, to find another open mouth of shadow
to swallow me up. Inside these temporal cathedrals, I will
wander Freud’s corridors as they
crisscross, sweep, and bend behind my eyes and then
poke at their padded black walls,
looking for pictures,
trying to remember my own name.

Written 10/26/09
© 2009 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

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This poem was written for the latest mini-challenge from Read Write Poem — write seven poems about the body in the context of October. I didn’t pick a specific body part this time — I went more with the general idea of “disappearing”. Enjoy.

P.S. If you want to read everything else I wrote for the mini-challenge, click here.
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I can fold myself up so small. Bend my kneels, curl my back
until it cracks. Assume a flattened mantis position,
elbows swallowing themselves, wrists closing in on skin
like a pair of taciturn books. I could crush – no, compact myself
until my chicken bones break in the darkness. Knees become useless,
rotating broken legs in every direction. Arms flop, speaking limp doll dialects
until they die of gangrene. Eyes close, pull down the shades
to the light. A line in the silent black, one dimensional,
no longer speaking. The oldest trick in the book, Houdini’s envy – except
I don’t come back to tell you
that I’ve broken the void.

Written 10/11/09
©2009 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

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From PSH’s website:

“Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday November 1 2009 @ 2:00 pm PDT/5:00 pm EDT
Call in and read your poetry, open mic style. No content or style restrictions. Share details about your local poetry community with our listeners. We want to hear you!

Our Live events are hosted through BlogTalk Radio and can be accessed during the event by visiting http://blogtalkradio.com/psh and clicking on the “Click to Listen” button.

You can listen to the shows through your web browser as well as call in and ask questions live through by dialing (646) 716-7362 during the live broadcast.”
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Literally, poets from all over the world have read on these broadcasts. You know yours truly will be dialing in and reading. I encourage any poet who wants to and who can read to join in!

To check out Poetry Super Highway or find out more, visit:

http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html

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My poem, ”Epistle to Nero”, placed tenth amongst 461 entries in the 2009 Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest. The top ten winning poems were announced on a special broadcast of Poetry Super Highway Live on October 4. I had the opportunity to read my poem on the air. You can hear the broadcast at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/psh/2009/10/04/2009-Poetry-Contest-Winners-Announcement

For more information about PSH, visit: http://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html

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The September Edition of Poetry Super Highway Worldwide Open Reading is online now! I read my poem “Nails” on the show, and other poets from California, New Jersey, Florida, and Philadelphia read their pieces on the show. You can listen to the show at:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/psh/2009/09/06/September-2009-Worldwide-Open-Reading. Just as a note: there are a couple of minutes of silence at the beginning of the broadcast due to technical difficulties, after which follows the show.

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From PSH’s website:

“Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday September 6, 2009 @ 2:00 pm PDT/5:00 pm EDT
Call in and read your poetry, open mic style. No content or style restrictions. Share details about your local poetry community with our listeners. We want to hear you!

Our Live events are hosted through BlogTalk Radio and can be accessed during the event by visiting http://blogtalkradio.com/psh and clicking on the “Click to Listen” button.

You can listen to the shows through your web browser as well as call in and ask questions live through by dialing (646) 716-7362 during the live broadcast.”
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Literally, poets from all over the world have read on these broadcasts. You know yours truly will be dialing in and reading. I encourage any poet who wants to and who can read to join in!

To check out Poetry Super Highway or find out more, visit:

http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html

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The August Edition of Poetry Super Highway Worldwide Open Reading is online now! I read a then untitled poem (which I’ve now titled “Everything is Burning”) on the show. You can listen to the show at:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/psh/2009/08/09/August-2009-Worldwide-Open-Reading

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From PSH’s website:

“Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday August, 2009 @ 2:00 pm PDT/5:00 pm EDT
Call in and read your poetry, open mic style. No content or style restrictions. Share details about your local poetry community with our listeners. We want to hear you!

Our Live events are hosted through BlogTalk Radio and can be accessed during the event by visiting http://blogtalkradio.com/psh and clicking on the “Click to Listen” button.

You can listen to the shows through your web browser as well as call in and ask questions live through by dialing (646) 716-7362 during the live broadcast.”
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Literally, poets from all over the world have read on these broadcasts. You know yours truly will be dialing in and reading. I encourage any poet who wants to and who can read to join in!

To check out Poetry Super Highway or find out more, visit:

http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html

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June’s Poetry Super Highway Worldwide Open Reading is online now! I read “Samadhi” (one of the poems I wrote during National Poetry Month) on the show. You can listen to the show at:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/psh/2009/06/14/June-2009-Worldwide-Open-Reading

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From PSH’s website:

“Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday June 14, 2009 @ 2:00 pm PDT/5:00 pm EDT
Call in and read your poetry, open mic style. No content or style restrictions. Share details about your local poetry community with our listeners. We want to hear you!

Our Live events are hosted through BlogTalk Radio and can be accessed during the event by visiting http://blogtalkradio.com/psh and clicking on the “Click to Listen” button.

You can listen to the shows through your web browser as well as call in and ask questions live through by dialing (646) 716-7362 during the live broadcast.”
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Literally, poets from all over the world have read on these broadcasts. You know yours truly will be dialing in and reading. I encourage any poet who wants to and who can read to join in!

To check out Poetry Super Highway or find out more, visit:

http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html

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From PSH’s website:

“Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday May 17, 2009 @ 2:00 pm PDT/5:00 pm EDT
Call in and read your poetry, open mic style. No content or style restrictions. Share details about your local poetry community with our listeners. We want to hear you!

Our Live events are hosted through BlogTalk Radio and can be accessed during the event by visiting http://blogtalkradio.com/psh and clicking on the “Click to Listen” button.

You can listen to the shows through your web browser as well as call in and ask questions live through by dialing (646) 716-7362 during the live broadcast.”
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Literally, poets from all over the world have read on these broadcasts. You know yours truly will be dialing in and reading. I encourage any poet who wants to and who can read to join in!

To check out Poetry Super Highway or find out more, visit:

http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html

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Tuesday, April 21 is Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), and Poetry Super Highway published a special issue this week to commemorate this. My poem, “Somewhere”, appears in this issue of PSH Weekly. You can read “Somewhere” at: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/ppa/ppa603b.html#fp10

I also read this poem on the April 19th edition of Poetry Super Highway Live. To hear the poem and to listen to April’s edition of the show, please visit:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/psh/2009/04/19/April-2009-Worlide-Open-Reading

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From PSH’s website:

“Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday April 19, 2009 @ 2:00 pm PDT/5:00 pm EDT
Call in and read your poetry, open mic style. No content or style restrictions. Share details about your local poetry community with our listeners. We want to hear you!

Our Live events are hosted through BlogTalk Radio and can be accessed during the event by visiting http://blogtalkradio.com/psh and clicking on the “Click to Listen” button.

You can listen to the shows through your web browser as well as call in and ask questions live through by dialing (646) 716-7362 during the live broadcast.”
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Literally, poets from all over the world have read on these broadcasts. You know yours truly will be dialing in and reading. I encourage any poet who wants to and who can read to join in!

To check out Poetry Super Highway or find out more, visit:

http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html

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March’s Poetry Super Highway Worldwide Open Reading is online now! I read “Fables”, which is in a new limited-run chapbook I published, word. Check it out here:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/psh/2009/03/08/March-2008-Worldwide-Open-Reading

If you want more info about word., feel free to contact me backchannel. I’ve printed a VERY limited run for the upcoming “Say That You Jive Turkey” show on March 21, but I may have some copies remaining should you wish to purchase one. Watch my blog for more details.

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From PSH’s website:

“Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday March 8, 2009 @ 2:00 pm PDT/5:00 pm EDT
Call in and read your poetry, open mic style. No content or style restrictions. Share details about your local poetry community with our listeners. We want to hear you!

Our Live events are hosted through BlogTalk Radio and can be accessed during the event by visiting http://blogtalkradio.com/psh and clicking on the “Click to Listen” button.

You can listen to the shows through your web browser as well as call in and ask questions live through by dialing (646) 716-7362 during the live broadcast.”
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Literally, poets from all over the world have read on these broadcasts. You know yours truly will be dialing in and reading. I encourage any poet who wants to and who can read to join in!

To check out Poetry Super Highway or find out more, visit:

http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html

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Poetry Super Highway’s February 2009 Worldwide Open Reading is online now! To listen, visit:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/psh/2009/02/01/february-2009-worldwide-open-reading

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From PSH’s website:

“Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday January 1, 2009 @ 2:00 pm PDT/5:00 pm EDT
Call in and read your poetry, open mic style. No content or style restrictions. Share details about your local poetry community with our listeners. We want to hear you!

Our Live events are hosted through BlogTalk Radio and can be accessed during the event by visiting http://blogtalkradio.com/psh and clicking on the “Click to Listen” button.

You can listen to the shows through your web browser as well as call in and ask questions live through by dialing (646) 716-7362 during the live broadcast.”
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Literally, poets from all over the world have read on these broadcasts. You know yours truly will be dialing in and reading. I encourage any poet who wants to and who can read to join in!

To check out Poetry Super Highway or find out more, visit:

http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html

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From PSH’s website:

“Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday January 4, 2009 @ 2:00 pm PDT/5:00 pm EDT
Call in and read your poetry, open mic style. No content or style restrictions. Share details about your local poetry community with our listeners. We want to hear you!

Our Live events are hosted through BlogTalk Radio and can be accessed during the event by visiting http://blogtalkradio.com/psh and clicking on the “Click to Listen” button.

You can listen to the shows through your web browser as well as call in and ask questions live through by dialing (646) 716-7362 during the live broadcast.”
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Literally, poets from all over the world have read on these broadcasts. You know yours truly will be dialing in and reading. I encourage any poet who wants to and who can read to join in!

To check out Poetry Super Highway or find out more, visit:

http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html

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December’s Poetry Super Highway Live Show, which broadcast today, is online now! I read “Revolutionary” on yesterday’s broadcast. “Revolutionary” was featured on PSH a few weeks back when I was one of their Poets of the Week.

You can listen to December’s show by visiting:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/psh/2008/12/07/december-2008-worldwide-open-reading

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November’s Poetry Super Highway Live Show, which broadcast today, is online now! I read “Dreams” on today’s broadcast. You can listen by visiting:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/psh/2008/11/09/November-29-Worldwide-Open-Reading

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From PSH’s website:

“Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday November 9, 2008 @ 2:00 pm PDT/5:00 pm EDT
Call in and read your poetry, open mic style. No content or style restrictions. Share details about your local poetry community with our listeners. We want to hear you!

Our Live events are hosted through BlogTalk Radio and can be accessed during the event by visiting http://blogtalkradio.com/psh and clicking on the “Click to Listen” button.

You can listen to the shows through your web browser as well as call in and ask questions live through by dialing (646) 716-7362 during the live broadcast.”
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Literally, poets from all over the world have read on these broadcasts. You know yours truly will be dialing in and reading. I encourage any poet who wants to and who can read to join in!

To check out Poetry Super Highway or find out more, visit:

http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html

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