Nicole Sealey
@Nic_Sealey
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Poet.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined June 2013
THE FERGUSON REPORT: AN ERASURE is out today! I am incredibly grateful for the support it has/I have received from family, friends and advocates—thank you, thank you, thank you. This book is as much theirs as it is mine.
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Thrilled to be in community with @TheJuleMuseum! Stay tuned for the museum’s podcast episode featuring Donika Kelly, David Baker and myself. We’re talking about birds, poems with birds, along with Audubon’s work and his problematic legacy.
Radical Naturalism: Lyric Birdscapes Acclaimed poet @Nic_Sealey will engage faculty, students and the Auburn community as a poet-in-residence at @TheJuleMuseum working with Auburn’s collection by the 19th-century naturalist John James Audubon.
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Join us Thursday, October 23rd for the Witness Poetry Prize event with winner Hana Widerman and judge @Nic_Sealey at @TheJuleMuseum
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Join us next week at our new home in NoHo for an intimate reading of select works from "Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems, For and About One Mr. Komunyakaa," featuring Fellows Brian Gilmore, John Murillo, and Nicole Sealey. Visit https://t.co/0pKtFqflgG to secure your spot
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The #SealeyChallenge is two short days away—and you can pre-celebrate by listening to the special 50th episode of Poetry Centered, hosted by @Nic_Sealey herself! Listen here: https://t.co/WYjJJYTFte
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Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations to @AmeenAnimashaun , winner of the 2025 Evaristo Prize for African Poetry! 🥳🥳🥳 Read more here: https://t.co/3UffKv3ROd The APBF sends gratitude to all the wonderful emerging poets who shared their work with us!
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You have 3 days to submit your poems of witness to the 2025 Auburn Witness Prize judged by @Nic_Sealey! Submit up to 3 poems; entry fee $15. Winner receives $1,000 & opportunity to read at an event presented by @TheJuleMuseum
https://t.co/qbDVJ5ZCj5
#poetry #writingcommunity
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Apply! Apply! Apply!
Get your poems ready! The annual Auburn Witness Poetry Prize honoring Jake Adam York will be open May 1-June 1. Submit up to 3 poems for this year's judge @Nic_Sealey! Learn more: https://t.co/rgK3XLMciT
#litmag #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
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FREE tickets still available for Ti Jean and His Brothers by Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott: https://t.co/UPVBVx4dXT . SHOWTIMES April 11, 12, 17, 18 & 19 at 8PM @Princeton's Wallace Theater . #LewisCenterfortheArts #PrincetonArts #PrincetonTheater #NJStage
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Join us tomorrow evening!
Save the date for Dear Yusef: A Celebration of Yusef Komunyakaa with the Fine Arts Work Center online, March 20th at 6:00PM ET!
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We're celebrating 15 years of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature with a look back at prize winners, 2011 through 2024! Celebrate 2024’s winners with us: @SafiyaSinclair @kevinjhosein @Nic_Sealey 🔗More about the prize at: https://t.co/4vybaP8CtU
@OCM_Group
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Join us tonight, March 6th, as we celebrate the launch of LIKE A HAMMER: Poets on Mass Incarceration at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago.✨ Featuring myself, John Murillo, Candace Williams, and the collection’s brilliant editor Diana Marie Delgado. https://t.co/JV0kLPoeoN
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A book launch featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Nicole Sealey, John Murillo, Candace Williams, and editor Diana Marie Delgado.
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Many thanks to Meg @PoetryBookSoc for including @Nic_Sealey's second poetry book The Ferguson Report: An Erasure and @courtneyconrad_'s @Mslexia / @BloodaxeBooks award-winning debut pamphlet #IAmEvidence in this feature.
Meg's Monday Muse takes place in the courtroom this week, with titles on truth and justice from Pindrop Press, @Silver_Press_, @BloodaxeBooks and @brokensleep. Follow the link to find out more:
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Thanksto all who joined us for the @Princeton Launch of Dear Yusef an anthology dedicated to the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, edited by #PrincetonArts Fellow Nicole Sealey & poet John Murillo at Labyrinth Books: https://t.co/iu1eZO0SzE . #LewisCenterfortheArts
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Join us tomorrow, February 5th, as we celebrate the Princeton launch of DEAR YUSEF: Essays, Letters, and Poems For & About One Mr. Komunyakaa. ✨ Readings by and a conversation between Terrance Hayes and THE Yusef Komunyakaa.
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Join us next Thursday, January 30th, as we celebrate DEAR YUSEF: Essays, Letters, and Poems For & About One Mr. Komunyakaa! Details below and in the link. ✨ NYU’s Lillian Vernon House 58 West 10th Street, NYC 7-9 pm https://t.co/XiFJ3RumTV
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Via @nytimes : A.O. Scott swoons over Diane Seuss swooning over John Keats swooning over a nightingale. “Romantic Poet” by Diane Seuss from her book MODERN POETRY @GraywolfPress
https://t.co/FggHhhHa2i
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“Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year.
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Carnegie spent over $55 million of his wealth on libraries alone, and he is often referred to as the “Patron Saint of Libraries.” (Thank you, thank you.)
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