Nikki Wallschlaeger's guest appearances

Nikki Wallschlaeger

The Poetry Magazine Podcast

New Books Network

New Books in Poetry

Poem-a-Day

Madison BookBeat

The Humanities Pod

Franny Choi

Robert Lowell

Joshua Bennett

Lynn Melnick

Mary Ruefle

Ange Mlinko

Walt Whitman

Jericho Brown

Fatimah Asghar

Brian Greene

Dana Gioia

Elizabeth Bishop

Naomi Shihab Nye

Stephen Burt

Joyce Carol Oates

OwlTail

The editors discuss Nikki Wallschlaeger’s poem “When the Devil Leads Us Home and Yells Surprise” from the December 2018 issue of Poetry.

The editors discuss Nikki Wallschlaeger’s poem “When the Devil Leads Us Home and Yells Surprise” from the December 2018 issue of Poetry.

Nikki Wallschlaeger reads “When the Devil Leads Us Home and Yells Surprise”

Chapbookapalooza 2014 Nikki Wallschlaeger I Would Be the Happiest BirdHorseless Press, 2014It is transient, it is migratory, it embarks from the restlessness of youth and family and lands in self-actualization.I’ve never/ thought of myself as much of a threat, sitting here in a room w/ cats &amp; a space heater trying to figure out/ how birds flying in the sky still has relevant meaning, how not caring if it does means more than// a thesis or carefully splattered book (the trick is believing in yourself long enough so that the words/ come out more or less honest, pitting vulnerability against craft.) I Would Be the Happiest Bird interrogates our “where?” and calls to piece of us that still looks up and wonders, “if I could fly, how far would my wings take me from here and would I ever come back?” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry

<a href="https://i0.wp.com/newbooksnetwork.com/poetry/files/2014/10/happiestbird.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a>Chapbookapalooza 2014 <a href="http://nikkiwallschlaeger.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nikki Wallschlaeger</a> <a href="http://horselesspress.org/2014/02/23/i-would-be-the-happiest-bird-by-nikki-wallschlaeger/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I Would Be the Happiest Bird</a> Horseless Press, 2014 It is transient, it is migratory, it embarks from the restlessness of youth and family and lands in self-actualization. I’ve never/ thought of myself as much of a threat, sitting here in a room w/ cats &amp; a space heater trying to figure out/ how birds flying in the sky still has relevant meaning, how not caring if it does means more than// a thesis or carefully splattered book (the trick is believing in yourself long enough so that the words/ come out more or less honest, pitting vulnerability against craft.) <a href="http://horselesspress.org/2014/02/23/i-would-be-the-happiest-bird-by-nikki-wallschlaeger/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I Would Be the Happiest Bird</a> interrogates our “where?” and calls to piece of us that still looks up and wonders, “if I could fly, how far would my wings take me from here and would I ever come back?” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>Support our show by becoming a premium member! <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry</a>

Nikki Wallschlaeger  “I Would Be the Happiest Bird”  (Horseless Press, 2014)