Dimensions of Sight
I look down at this
and see flat space
lookup and think
I see full space
then close my eyes and see
nothing but time
James
B. Nicola
James B.
Nicola’s poetry and prose have appeared in the Antioch, Southwest, Green
Mountains, and Atlanta Reviews;
Rattle; Barrow Street; Tar River; and Poetry
East, garnering two Willow Review
awards, a Dana Literary award, one Best of the Net nom and seven Pushcart
nominations. His full-length collections are Manhattan Plaza (2014), Stage
to Page (2016), Wind in the Cave
(2017), Out of Nothing: Poems of Art and
Artists (2018), Quickening: Poems
from Before and Beyond (2019), and Fires
of Heaven: Poems of Faith and Sense (2021). His decades of working in the
theater as a stage director, composer, lyricist, playwright, and acting teacher
culminated in the nonfiction book Playing
the Audience: The Practical Guide to Live Performance, which won a Choice award. A Yale grad, he currently
hosts the Hell's Kitchen International Writers' Round Table at his library
branch in Manhattan: walk-ins welcome.