3 new #poems in the BlazeVox Journal (SP26) static1.squarespace.com/static/66627...

We can spend lives in the whale fall of civilization in solidarity with the Morlocks. But H. G. Wells reminds us that at the end of time, crabs “smeared with algal slime” wait to descend on us. My poem considers how survival might happen, even without us, as the crab waits. poems.com/poem/carcini...

We can spend lives in the whale fall of civilization in solidarity with the Morlocks. But H. G. Wells reminds us that at the end of time, crabs “smeared with algal slime” wait to descend on us. My poem considers how survival might happen, even without us, as the crab waits. poems.com/poem/carcini...

poems.com/poem/carcini... I'm featured on Poetry Daily today.

Quoting Eugene Debs piques my interest in a politician… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_...

#poetry as excrement , as fluid, as adhesive, as “as” #poems #xenopoem

A post about my work… The Body as Vector on the Work of Nicholas Alexander Hayes: An Analysis of Infection, Language, and Technobiological Poetics in Posthuman Literature note.com/kenjisirator...

The Incorruptible (french revolution)

work at Cephalophore with images by Tomer Rosenthal. cultofcephalophore.wordpress.com/2025/07/20/f...

work at Cephalophore with images by Tomer Rosenthal. cultofcephalophore.wordpress.com/2025/07/20/f...

Nicholas Alexander Hayes’ chapbook IN GREEN CARNATIONS will ship next week! @brokenzipper.bsky.social

New poems at blazevox: “what we risk in love and what we risk to live” #poetry #poems static1.squarespace.com/static/66627...

Upcoming! Eneida P. Alcalde’s THE WEALTH WE SURRENDERED Amílcar Peter Sanatan’s THE BLACK FLÂNEUR Ali C’s Night OF THE FIRE & Nicholas Alexander Hayes’ IN GREEN CARNATIONS

Best meatless things I ate in New Orleans: Fried Sun Chokes @ the Sneaky Pickle; Pimento Cheese Rangoons @ Beachbum Berry's Latitude 29; and FouFou & Black-Eyed Peas (Kone ni Makondo) @ Benna'chin.

" Hungry ghost, must I sing you vespers as I light incense of pubic hair and green carnations.” You can now pre-order Nicholas Alexander Hayes’ IN GREEN CARNATIONS! @brokenzipper.bsky.social www.ethelzine.com/shop/in-gree...

it’s 8:20pm. Cops have blocked off the street- lights but no sirens. A congregation slowly walks past holding candles singing lowly. every so often someone prays through a loud speaker. Andrew is in the garden planting things holding a flashlight.

my poem The Pétroleuse is up on Reap Thrill. it’s a sort of revolutionary phantasy that feels timely to me… reapthrill.run/2025/04/04/t...

I hope everyone is enjoying their day…

Awful 😭

I have a new chapbook scheduled with Ethel Zine in 2025. more info to come. #queerlit #poetry #fiction (or well poetic fiction…)

I’ve placed a favorite story at 2 journals. Both folded a couple of months after the acceptance. Maybe the story is so loved it’s cursed.

Sharing a rare political meme that I thought @divinetailor.bsky.social might appreciate

Skaro or Milwaukee

I am giving out advanced copies of my prose chapbook No Wish Unfulfilled. I will gladly send you one.

I’m giving out advanced copies of my chapbook No Wish Unfulfilled. I will gladly send you one. No Wish Unfulfilled is about salvage & disaster. Salvaging selves; salvaging connections. The stories are salvaged from little magazines. #dystopianbooks #chicagolit #fabulist #surrealistfiction #queerlit

No Wish Unfulfilled is about salvage & disaster. Salvaging selves; salvaging connections. The stories are salvaged from little magazines. I am giving out advanced copies of the collection. Message me for one. #fiction #dystopianbooks #chicagolit #fabulist #surrealistfiction #irrealfiction #queerlit

No Wish Unfulfilled is about salvage & disaster. Salvaging selves; salvaging connections. The stories are salvaged from little magazines. I am giving out advanced copies of the collection. Message me for one. #fiction #dystopianbooks #chicagolit #fabulist #surrealistfiction #irrealfiction #queerlit

“There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled.” - H. P. Lovecraft No Wish Unfulfilled Nicholas Alexander Hayes @alienbuddhapress Message me for an advanced copy. #fiction #dystopianbooks #chicagolit #fabulist #surrealistfiction #irrealfiction #queerlit

"Reading this book feels like an intimacy ... It is like opening a young man’s journal. A journal in which the youth is still trying to negotiate themselves through the inchoateness of adolescence." @brokenzipper.bsky.social reviews All Out in the Open by Charalampos Tzanakis

“There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled.” - H. P. Lovecraft No Wish Unfulfilled Nicholas Alexander Hayes Release: June 15, 2024 dm me for review copies #fiction #queerlit #fabulism #surrealist #disaster #dystopia

The Mouse and the Motorcycle, The Book with the Hole, Time’s Arrow, The Museum of Love, The Baudelaire Fractal, and more. James Nulick, #author of the forthcoming Plastic Soul, talks about the nine types of books that have had an impact on his life and writing.

When AI sees me, what does it see?

I have a poem about Divine and Lobstora in the ever excellent and transgressive scab magazine #divine #multiplemaniacs #johnwaters #experimentalpoetry #chicagolit #queerliterature scabmag.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/scab...

Aquarius - Giant red mysid (Gnathophausia ingens) Enigmatic and secretive; knows how to keep it bright, red, and real in the light, while also fading into darkness of the deep.

a rainy day- perfect time to read my chapbook Buttered Hair - poetry inspired by cowards of ragnarok and other apocalypses. ghostcitypress.com/2022-summer-... #poetry #poetrycommunity #ghostcity #nicholasalexanderhayes

so in my notes on an essay I accidentally wrote “learnerd” instead of “learners”. Perhaps my subconscious is showing.

I have new #poetry at Sulfur, including a #poem featuring Klaus Nomi & Jobriath. sulfur-surrealist-jungle.com/2024/02/24/p... #surrealistpoetry #poetrycommunity #chicagolit

Excited to have my poem Lizardrule up @reapthrill . It is inspired by Gregg Araki’s film Nowhere. reapthrill.com/2024/02/23/l... #nicholasalexanderhayes #lizardrule #reapthrill #lexicartographies #experimentalpoetry #experimental #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity

Explore the power of naming and specificity in poetry and art with Robert Stewart's thought-provoking essay, "In the Name: The Power to Be Moved." Discover how abstraction can limit our connection and the journey from erasure to reconnection. #author #essay

discovering classic literature

Read Catherine Rockwood's Nine Books about Your Life interview @YIVJournal I also encourage you to read Rockwood's chapbook "And We Are Far From Shore: Poems for Our Flag Means Death" published by Ethel Zine www.yourimpossiblevoice.com/catherine-ro... #poetry #poetrycommunity #OurFlagMeansDeath

A review of my book Lexicartographies (Blazevox) at the excellent Reap Thrill. reapthrill.com/2024/01/05/w... #poetrycommunity #experimentallit #poetry #blazevox

Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley #poetry #poems #vispo

Issue 14 features five fabulous stories: sound killing forests, the magic of new life, partnerships of stone and water, a charming Nordic fairy tale, and a banished human who dreams of becoming an AI. This issue is SO SO GOOD. Give it a read! www.boneparade.com