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Nicole Buzzelli is a poet, writer, intuitive reader and healer, and teacher from Los Angeles, California. She studied Education at California Polytechnic and Loyola Marymount University and has worked with children and young people from infancy to adolescence. She trained in energy reading and healing under the Intuitive Masters Program at Energy Matters Academy. Nicole is a writer and poet. She recently was the first place recipient of the Plentitudes Prizes in Poetry. You can read her some of her poetry below.

Nicole was born and raised in and around the greater Los Angeles area. She is third generation Italian-American, and much of how she relates to the world is from and of this lens.

  • Love (In the Shade of Midnight Blue), The Plentitudes

    One Night with Kelly, Pensive Journal

    Full Moon

    At the End

    Drum Drum

    Tell Me

    Heartwood

    The Half Bad Poem

    when you forget what you are made from

    Espresso

    Genesis

    oh (madonna)

    Ode to Limits

  • Here is what I know of it today:

    Our bodies are entire mouths that breathe into existence. What we make becomes a pocket we can reach into. I have two hands on the body, twenty more or so underground, and one large one in the ethers with infinite fingers splayed around the palm. Worlds overlay, including the ones we create, and the body becomes a map of the universe. Maps, of course, can burn and be burned. I am not separate from my time; I am a fractal of it. I must be stubborn in choosing the monsters I feed, which means I must be able to discern the round curve of every mouth. Roots go down, boughs go up, and there is a base in the middle. There, I am collecting home. Everywhere else, I am collecting what is, what was, and what could be. In my studies, I insist on paradox; it becomes the garden. In a world full of artists, art becomes nonspecific. It simply becomes the uninhibited desire to create. I am, we are, imagining new worlds into existence, and in them, I intend to play.

  • Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés

    Boy, Snow, Bird, Helen Oyeyemi

    Peaces, Helen Oyeyemi

    God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

    A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki

    Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann

    Signs Preceding the End of the World, Yuri Herrera [translated by Lisa Dillman]

    The Tiger's Wife, Téa Obreht

    Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi

    This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

    Popisho, Leone Ross

    Beasts of a Little Land, Juhea Kim

    Where Reasons End, Yiyun Li

    Witches, Brenda Lozano

    The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert