A Year Across the Spheres
A Year in Review
This week marks one year on substack for me. I put out somewhere around seventy poems and several pieces of prose.
It’s been a nice time, and most importantly I’ve had the opportunity to have excellent discussions with some erudite and intelligent folk.
I’ve read a lot of good stuff, and even some really good stuff. Kudos to everyone who’s worked hard on actually making something.
I’d like to thank my readers. I am very appreciative of your attention, engagement and comments. Thanks for sticking around to hear what I’ve had to say.
I’ll be putting up a celebratory, mega poem-post on Thursday.
Anyway, here’s a quick little round-up of what I’ve written this year:
Poems
Ten sundry poems for your perusal.
A number of lighter nature poems.
More serious and formal outings.
A nursery rhyme—ish piece, silly and moribund.
Age of Cult—my great failure.
The forbidden skibidi toilet poem.
Similar to The Toilets, another ironically sincere poem.
And just for fun, some bonus poem cycles.
The Techno trilogy:
Schizo trilogy:
My first post and its contrary counterpart:
Prose
Poetry and Posterity is a lengthy and wide-ranging essay about the practice of poetry which touches on topics such as: The sad state of current celebrated poetry, the failure of traditionalism, apocalyptic symbolic interpretation, and the function of form and prosody.
An essay about another essay—exploring the effects of regional and provincial consciousness on art and poetry.
Work Published Elsewhere
My thanks to everyone listed below. I am very grateful to them for platforming my work.
The excellent and very cool Tooky’s Mag published two short poems of mine.
Published on Silver Door, this is a two part essay about Robert Frost and American poetry. The first part is a deep reading and extended explication of his poem “The Most of It”. The second part reflects on Frost, American poetry, and looking towards a future of American poems.
You can read my rough-and-ragged poem “In the Wake of Uncle Ted” in this issue of miniMAG.
On the opposite side of the spectrum is a religious poem on the occasion of Advent published by Kevin LaTorre on A Stylist Submits.
Thank you for reading!
-Nik
Like Minds
Away from kind company, a man
Is driven to the outs,
By ways of mischief and of taste,
‘Midst chase and cries for clout.
Congrats on a voluminous year one, Nik.