O, Nonce!

A conversation with Nick Martino about Nonce Forms, The Possibilities of Visual Poetics, and Writing Towards Surprise Nick Martino (https://www.nickmartinopoetry.com/) is a poet and teacher from Milwaukee. His debut poetry collection, Scrap Book (https://www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/scrap-book) (from Alice James Books) won the 2024 Alice James Editors’ Choice Award and will be published in June of 2026. His poems have been published in Best New Poets, Narrative (https://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/fall-2023/poetry/leaving-gym-i-smoke-one-cigarette-then-another-nick-martino) , Ninth Letter, The Boston Review (https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/three-poems-10/) , and The Southern Review, among others. A finalist for the 2024 Sewanee Review Poetry Prize, he holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine where he received the 2022 Excellence in Poetry Prize. He lives in LA. Get full access to O, Word? at oword.deesoulpoetry.com/subscribe (https://oword.deesoulpoetry.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)