nina peláez
@ninacpelaez
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Poet, Artist, Associate Director of The Merwin Conservancy. Poems in @TheAtlantic @TheSchooner @PleiadesMag @swamp_pink @RattlePoetry @NarrativeMag
Maui, HI
Joined January 2010
So thrilled for this wonderful publication news from @TopangaHippie
Proud to have my poem "Good Tank Farms" sharing the pages of The Paris Review winter 2025 issue with wonderful work by @janaprikryl @Moonsunson, Alice Oswald, Ed Roberson and more. @parisreview
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On 22 Dec at 5pm CET, I will run a small online event on how to use my lit mag rankings for submitting to journals. This event is for those: (i) new to submitting; and/or (ii) not comfortable with spreadsheets. The event will be FREE but there are only 10 spots - sign up below!
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“My father does not believe in God or therapists— / instead, he pedals his bike past Brighton Beach / to the Coney Island Y to swim his fifty laps. ” Read “Syncretism,” a poem by Nina C. Peláez:
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I have started a substack. Sign up to receive a weekly divination card, designed by me, alongside a lyric guide, creative prompt, and a look at some of the history of the images I am incorporating. This first week's divination is "The Oculus:" https://t.co/PGpnJKvvTB
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We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 Wallace Stevens Award and the Academy Fellowship, two of the most prestigious poetry prizes in the United States. Cornelius Eady (@roughband) is the recipient of the Wallace Stevens Award, which is given annually to
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It’s still Hispanic Heritage Month! Check out our roundup feat. Jenna Martínez, Asheley Nova Navarro, @ninacpelaez, @sapellosun, @jasminekhaliq_, @strpsrchla, Sara Santistevan, Faith Gómez Clark, Nathan Xavier Osorio, Laura Villareal, and @Al_Zaps.
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Congrats to all of the latest Barbara Deming Poetry grant winners. Special congratulations to my AWP Mentee Nina Peláez
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Where is my dead brother? I want to know. With so many infirmities I await the miraculous. Galaxies are grand thickets of stars in which we may hide forever. Jim Harrison
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It's official: Shō Poetry Journal now nominates work for Best of the Net! We are pleased to share our nominees for the 2026 anthology. These poems appear in Shō No. 7 (Summer 2025) alongside work by 41 other fantastic poets & are featured on the Read a Poem page of our website.
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“I started gardening when my children were young—I taught them to make martinis so they could bring them to me in the garden.” —Jamaica Kincaid
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“I suppose that my work is always mourning something, the loss of a paradise—not the thing that comes after you die, but the thing that you had before.”
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“If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.” —Octavio Paz
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“I didn't set out to be a troublesome writer, but if that's what I've been, I am totally unrepentant.”
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I was so delighted to be invited to be a featured poet for this lovely lit mag, run by wonderful young editors who are making a beautiful platform for literature. Bravo on the wonderful work you are doing @EucalyptusLit
So excited to share a new #poem and #interview by Issue 6 featured author @ninacpelaez! Attachment Theory "A child’s fear predictable as an orchard in the autumn. / Some things, just easy to forget." https://t.co/EZkO0TDtyB
#eucalyptuslit #issue6 #litmag
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Thank you to @randallmannpoet and @POETSorg for selecting my poem “Sehnsucht” for their Poem-a-Day series today.
The economy continues to show resilience in the face of despair and mass depredation. My daughter is swan. Is crab grass run riot. Meanwhile, I am becoming unrecognizable to everyone except myself. . . ––Michael Dumanis @MichaelDumanis
#PoemADay
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