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Niko Nelson is an intuitive writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. As a graduate student, Niko was selected for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles’ Writing Our Future. Her first poetry chapbook, Nomenclature, was published by Monday Night Press. She received her B.A. in Literary Studies from The New School University and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Otis College of Art and Design.

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Project Myopia •

Charlotte Forten & This Dream I Am Born With

Dear C/You have come to me/To become the reverend/of what I have thought entirely/For the society within me/Where I have been you all along/But you never me/Except as the spirit I call upon/I cannot see or hear,/yet I am/Every new thought, what I have always known/You made of me centuries ago/And this dream I am born with/Fills the lines running through all/Our lower levels with the unfinished/Then or now/Yet here we are/Yet hear we in arms
Business Insider •

I'm a Gluten-Free Shopper Who Gets My Essentials at Trader Joe's.

My local Trader Joe's is a reliable source for affordable, gluten-free items. The blue-corn tortilla chips and wild Alaskan sockeye salmon are essentials for my husband and me.

I use cauliflower gnocchi to make a variety of gluten-free meals. To achieve the perfect crispiness, I like to sauté Trader Joe's cauliflower gnocchi on the stove with the lid on, then finish cooking it without the lid. I serve the gnocchi with Brussels sprouts and a homemade dressing, and garnish the dish with shaved Pecorino Romano.

Trader Joe's gluten-free cauliflower pizza crusts pair well with a variety of toppings. Trader Joe's cauliflower pizza crusts are relatively small, so I love that
That Devil Music •

That Devil Music

Excitable Pressworks will proudly release an anthology of writing about rock 'n' roll and the good folks that make the music. Offers artist interviews, essays, articles, and album reviews that cross the entire spectrum of rock music, from classic rock and heavy metal to punk, prog-rock, and beyond. That Devil Music: Best Rock Writing 2014 was edited by veteran music critic Rev. Keith A. Gordon and features the work of a diverse group of two-dozen talented writers including talents like Steve Morley, Tommy Hash, Fred Mills, Denise Sullivan, Jason Gross, and Lee Zimmerman, among others. The book reprints vital and exciting material from the previous year from publications like Blurt magazine, Paste magazine, Perfect Sound Forever, Metal Injection, and the That Devil Music.com website. That Devil Music: Best Rock Writing 2014 is a 252-page, 5.5" x 8.5" trade paperback that features incredible Tim Shawl front and back cover artwork.

Inspired by Da Capo's annualseries (which was discontinued in 2011), is focused entirely on rock 'n' roll and includes articles on Big Star, Imagine Dragons, Greg Prevost, Clutch, Emitt Rhodes, the Replacements, Jimbo Mathus, and much more!
Language Trainers USA Blog •

The Global Market, According to Your Time Zone

A study published on Slate highlights differences between standard and solar time around the world. Businesses operating across multiple countries know they need to account for changes in timezone, but this study explores how the rhythms of the sun affect the international workday and why they should influence modern business models.

The map by Google engineer Stefano Maggiolo, published for Slate, contains an international business lesson.

The geographical data visualization represents differ
Monday Night Press •

Poems by Niko Nelson

if baby made baby what could make me have fallen too many times to insanity or good place to visit but strange for a child knows it’s growing and living full-time in the land still writing back who could read in conditions like this is not writing enough for the dirt to develop

unafraid hair knots in hand happen all the time because you too not know my kind

there is no end at this all the aesthetics unaware these are the facts I’m sorry

everyone has to make it though you do not have to make
Empty Mirror •

Poems by Niko Nelson • Empty Mirror

Archimedes has his breasts on the seal/and a woman’s head is in Sacramento/watching pilgrim ships/sail down northern rivers/to a Republic rising again/with a breast-bearing bear/where maternity hotels foster leaders/not modeled after ones here

where females are included
in state Points of Interest
destinations motivated
by droughts lessening
with the quickness of a crop raid
aided by a map serving
38 million golden users
to which I Love You, California
plays no more.

by 2045 I’ll start a revised SF Renaissance

with yuppie blood as muse

to exit a childhood of piers

I have heroin death fantasies in the bathtub

while the moon’s yelling

lapis allures and makes me itch

as I recall my dad

saying following the moon won’t take you nowhere

a colleague mentions schizophrenia

is noticeable by 25

I read cold milk

is the cure

or Kool Aid

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