Looking over gardens from loon and Waterville valley to the squam lakes
Josh Nicolaisen holds a BA in English from Plymouth State University and and MFA in Poetry from the low-residency program at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia. He is a former high school teacher who now organizes and officiates snowboard and freeski events, coaches snowboarding at Holderness School, and is the owner of Old Man Gardening LLC. Josh lives in New Hampshire with his wife, Sara, and their daughters, Grace and Azalea. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and his poems have appeared in the following journals and anthologies:
*Finalist for the Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry Prize
"Ode to Knots" in Red Rock Review Issue 51
"On Trying to Remember Some Things" in Hunger Mountain Review Issue 29
"Cider Season" in Bellingham Review Issue 87
"Ode to Trees Making Me Hungry for Living" in Poetry South Issue 15 2023
"Josh Nicolaisen Reads Fighting is Like a Wife by Eloisa Amezcua" in Heavy Feather Review
"Polyphony" in Wild Roof Journal Issue 22
"An Undeniable Offer" in The Poet's Touchstone Volume 64 Number 2
"Sugar Shack Quarantine" in Clockhouse Volume 10
"Dosage" in Nixes Mate Review Issue 26/27 Winter/Spring 2023
"On the Fear of Raising My Hand" published in Concision Poetry Journal Issue 2.3
A review of Maggie Smith's, Goldenrod in Colorado Review
"While Running Errands" published in So It Goes Issue 11 by the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library
A review of William Fargason's, Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara in Colorado Review
"What I Might Have Said" published in The Bangalore Review Volume IX
"The Beauty of Science" published in Covid Spring II by Hobblebush Books
"Just You and Me" published in Backlash Journal 5 by Backlash Press
"Ed Likes Quickbooks" published in Dead of Winter by Milk & Cake Press
"One Night in Six Months" published in Day after Day in Quarantine by Peterborough Poetry Project
"A Fall Classic" published in Northern New England Review Volume #40
"What Normal Feels Like Right Now" published in Covid Spring by Hobblebush Books
"After Ice Cream" and "Just Outside Our New Home published in North by Northeast Literary Magazine Issue #1
"Why I was Nearly Naked in a Customer's Gardens" published by Tiny Seed Literary Journal
"Cold Snap" published in Nixes Mate Review Winter 2020 Edition by Nixes Mate Publications
"White Noise Worshippers" published in Centripetal Fall 2019 Edition by PSU Poets and Writers
"Line Dancing in America" published by Indolent Books online project What Rough Beast
"The Greens on Red Hill" published in Tree Journal by Tiny Seed Literary Journal
"Meditations on Permissions" published in So It Goes Issue 8 by the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library
*nominated for a Pushcart Prize
"In the Time if Avian Politics" published in Writers Resist Issue 82
"The Pull" published in Four Elements by Tiny Seed Literary Journal