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James B. Nicola’s poetry has appeared internationally in erbacce, Recusant, Snakeskin, The South, and Orbis (UK); Innisfree and Interpreter’s House (Ireland); Poetry Salzburg (Austria), mgversion2>datura (France); Gradiva (Italy); the Istanbul Review (Turkey); and Sand and The Transnational (Germany), in the latter of which his work appears in German translation; and Harvests of the New Millennium (India). His full-length collections (2014-2022) are Manhattan Plaza, Stage to Page, Wind in the Cave, Out of Nothing: Poems of Art and Artists (2018), Quickening: Poems from Before and Beyond (2019), Fires of Heaven: Poems of Faith and Sense, and Turns & Twists. His nonfiction book Playing the Audience won a Choice award.