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Nicole Cooley

Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans and is the  author of six book of poems, most recently Of Marriage (Alice James Books 2018) and Girl after Girl after Girl (LSU Press 2017), as well as the forthcoming collection Mother Water Ash (LSU Press 2024). Her poems have appeared most recently in Poetry, DIODE, and Scoundrel Time. She is the director of the MFA program in creative writing and literary translation at Queens College, City University of New York.

  • Three Poems

    All things counter, original, spare strange

  • Trash

    Good you are trashing, my husband says, when I send him a photo

  • SELF PORTRAIT IN THE BACKYARD AS MOTHER

    Tulip-bellied, fists full of weeds, the baby shuffles over the wet grass,

  • Booklet, Hand-Pressed Paper, Containing Locks of School-Children’s Hair, c. 1861

    Wound on a bobbin like thread.  Woven into a wreath