John A. Nieves has poems forthcoming or recently published in journals such as: Alaska Quarterly Review, Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, swamp pink and 32 Poems. A 2025 Pushcart Prize winner, he also won the Indiana Review Poetry Contest and his first book, Curio, won the Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award Judge's Prize. He is associate professor of English at Salisbury University and an editor of The Shore Poetry.

Other poems by John A. Nieves in Verse Daily:
January 1, 2024:   "Postbang" "The closet is dead, okay? Its back was blown..."
October 6, 2023:   "I Built a Goodbye Machine" "It started with a bobby pin soaked in the blue light..."
February 19, 2023:   "Note From Apparent Magnitude to Luminosity" "Take a second to disregard the yawning pupils..."
May 10, 2021:   "On Pessimism" "They aren't phantoms. There are always..."
January 26, 2021:   "Calan Gaeaf" "When the soot-cheeked children chip..."
April 23, 2020:   "Scuttle" "Don't drink the gnat. It plants itself..."
November 13, 2019:   "Doppler" "I do not feel much..."
January 12, 2016:   "Door of Birds" "When the hard wind finds the high..."
February 24, 2014:   "Autumnal" "October happens this way..."
February 7, 2013:   "Labwork" "We can excuse the apprehension..."
September 24, 2012:   "Daily" "I know it is mythologically wrong..."

Other poems on the web by John A. Nieves:
Two poems
"Old Light"
"All Light is Half Light"
"Aural Projection"
"Tender"
"Long Dash"
"Roadside Monument"
Three poems
Three poems
"If You Tilt It like So, You Can Almost See It (Caput Draconis)"
"Note to a Prospective Runaway at Bedtime"
"Scission"
Three poems
"Elegy with the Elegy Missing"
"For Jenny"
"Ars Elegica"
"The Moment of the Fall"
"Random Pulls from the Body Tarot"
Three poems
Three poems
"Strawberry Moon"
"Grain Moon"
"Missive"
"Historiography"
Three poems
"Wolfpeach"
Three poems
"Through Ends of Autumn"
"Dendrochronology"
"Backyard"
"Epoxy (Wave Like Ahab)"
"Invasive Species"

John A. Nieves's Website.

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Other poems from Sugar House Review in Verse Daily:
October 26, 2024:   "One of Us" by Seth Hagen
October 23, 2024:   "Snake Duplex i" by Cynthia Bargar
October 22, 2024:   "Capacity Crowd" by Natalie Shapero
October 21, 2024:   "Personal Effects" by Derek Graf
October 19, 2024:   "One of Us" by Stephen Kampa
October 18, 2024:   "One of Us" by Jim Daniels
April 10, 2024:   "Dress Rehearsals" by John Gallaher
April 9, 2024:   "Houseboats" by Brian Satrom
April 8, 2024:   "Early Storm" by Melanie McCabe
August 25, 2023:   "Quieting" by John A. Nieves   "Patient sleep ends here in the dry dark...."
August 21, 2023:   "[first tango]" by JD Debris
February 21, 2023:   "Holy" by Kerry James Evans
February 18, 2023:   "noyse" by Betsy Johnson
February 15, 2023:   "From Here on Out" by Suphil Lee Park
March 21, 2022:   "After the Shipwreck" by Deborah Keenan
March 18, 2022:   "Divorce" by Rebecca Morton
March 17, 2022:   "Goodbye Horses" by John Sibley Williams
March 16, 2022:   "I Get Why Dorothy Parker Gave All Her Money to the NAACP" by Michelle Bitting
September 10, 2021:   "Jittery Nocturne" by Kate Northrop
September 8, 2021:   "Meltdown" by Jeannine Hall Gailey
September 6, 2021:   "Now We Come to Ticks and Tocks" by Martha Silano
August 6, 2021:   "Between Jobs" by Lilian Ha
May 17, 2021:   "House Song with Wonder Woman" by Siew David Hii
May 14, 2021:   "I Can't Stop" by Jeannine Hall Gailey
May 12, 2021:   "The Missing Pages" by Mary Crow
May 10, 2021:   "On Pessimism" by Kerry James Evans
July 24, 2020:   "Melancholy Street" by Rhett Iseman Trull
July 23, 2020:   "Lost" by Susanna Lang
July 22, 2020:   "The Men and the Quiet" by Sean Thomas Dougherty
July 21, 2020:   "Casual wind" by Shira Dentz
July 20, 2020:   "Terms of Agreement" by Mary Biddinger
November 14, 2019:   "Apocalypse #2" by David Beebe
November 13, 2019:   "Doppler" by David Beebe
November 12, 2019:   "Fire Country" by Rebecca Aronson
February 20, 2019:   "Hier Gibt es Blaugeerren" William Trowbridge
March 4, 2017:   "Ghost Walk After the Resurrection" by Chelsea Dingman
August 11, 2016:   "To The Astronaut: On Impact" by Lisa Fay Coutley
August 10, 2016:   "You Get to Missing" by Cady Vishniac
August 9, 2016:   "The Betta Fish, Christmas" by Julie Danho
November 1, 2015:   "Meditation: On Being a Mystery to Oneself" by Carl Phillips
August 30, 2012:   "from Clangings" by Steve Cramer
December 25, 2011:   "Frost in the Low Areas" by Karen Skolfield
December 23, 2011:   "Cursive" by Elizabeth Willis
November 5, 2011:   "Everyone in Goya's Black Paintings..." by Jeff Whitney
April 20, 2011:   "from Clangings" by Steven Cramer
May 25, 2010:   "I Want You" by Weston Cutter

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