Looking over gardens from loon and Waterville valley to the squam lakes
Josh Nicolaisen taught English for twelve years. He organizes and officiates snowboard and freeski events and is the owner of Old Man Gardening LLC. Josh lives in New Hampshire with his wife, Sara, and their daughters, Grace and Azalea. His poems have appeared in the following journals and anthologies:
"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