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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The Twitterpation of Miss America peculiarmormyrid.com/nicholas-ale...

a hand holding a pipe revealing a statue of a woman draped with a US flag

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

3 new #poems in the BlazeVox Journal (SP26) static1.squarespace.com/static/66627...

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

We can spend lives in the whale fall of civilization in solidarity with the Morlocks. But H. G. Wells reminds us that at the end of time, crabs “smeared with algal slime” wait to descend on us. My poem considers how survival might happen, even without us, as the crab waits. poems.com/poem/carcini...

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carcinisation

spiracles wheeze across bone thoraxes.

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

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carcinisation

spiracles wheeze across bone thoraxes.

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Quoting Eugene Debs piques my interest in a politician… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_...

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Eugene V. Debs - Wikipedia

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

oh! he’s reading In Green Carnations (from Ethel.) He’s got wonderful ideas!

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Nicholas Alexander Hayes’ chapbook IN GREEN CARNATIONS will ship next week! @brokenzipper.bsky.social

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

New poems at blazevox: “what we risk in love and what we risk to live” #poetry #poems static1.squarespace.com/static/66627...

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Upcoming! Eneida P. Alcalde’s THE WEALTH WE SURRENDERED Amílcar Peter Sanatan’s THE BLACK FLÂNEUR Ali C’s Night OF THE FIRE & Nicholas Alexander Hayes’ IN GREEN CARNATIONS

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Best meatless things I ate in New Orleans: Fried Sun Chokes @ the Sneaky Pickle; Pimento Cheese Rangoons @ Beachbum Berry's Latitude 29; and FouFou & Black-Eyed Peas (Kone ni Makondo) @ Benna'chin.

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

" Hungry ghost, must I sing you vespers as I light incense of pubic hair and green carnations.” You can now pre-order Nicholas Alexander Hayes’ IN GREEN CARNATIONS! @brokenzipper.bsky.social www.ethelzine.com/shop/in-gree...

$What stale musk erodes the perfume of jasmine as Mroz sits facing an alley constipated with bulging dumpsters impatiently staring at the orange paper cut of sunset. In writhing obligate anxiety and flirting with insensibility, he descends between the tagged walls, craving adulteration. A fractured, ersatz. Eames chair spills negentropy Brothers pick through the piles looking for scrap. Bottoms in the recycling. Macnads in the grease traps. Bromius looks for glory holes or rat nests. Mroz smells Erl, famished, libidinous shadow, borning the gutter for stray sapphires and tracking scavenging Mroz abandons the narrow canals of detritus distancing himself from fruitful gleaners. Er follows him into the empty avenue as two bunnies chase each other underneath abandoned cars. Pausing, Mroz whispers, " Hungry ghost, must I sing you vespers as I light incense of pubic hair and green carnations.'$

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

it’s 8:20pm. Cops have blocked off the street- lights but no sirens. A congregation slowly walks past holding candles singing lowly. every so often someone prays through a loud speaker. Andrew is in the garden planting things holding a flashlight.

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I hope everyone is enjoying their day…

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Awful 😭

A three panel comic of peter parker
1: he's holding up a book, on the cover it says "How to write a book"
2: the open pages read: "Write the book"
3: Peter crying

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I have a new chapbook scheduled with Ethel Zine in 2025. more info to come. #queerlit #poetry #fiction (or well poetic fiction…)

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I’ve placed a favorite story at 2 journals. Both folded a couple of months after the acceptance. Maybe the story is so loved it’s cursed.

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Sharing a rare political meme that I thought @divinetailor.bsky.social might appreciate

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

I am giving out advanced copies of my prose chapbook No Wish Unfulfilled. I will gladly send you one.

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

I’m giving out advanced copies of my chapbook No Wish Unfulfilled. I will gladly send you one. No Wish Unfulfilled is about salvage & disaster. Salvaging selves; salvaging connections. The stories are salvaged from little magazines. #dystopianbooks #chicagolit #fabulist #surrealistfiction #queerlit

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

No Wish Unfulfilled is about salvage & disaster. Salvaging selves; salvaging connections. The stories are salvaged from little magazines. I am giving out advanced copies of the collection. Message me for one. #fiction #dystopianbooks #chicagolit #fabulist #surrealistfiction #irrealfiction #queerlit

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

“There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled.” - H. P. Lovecraft No Wish Unfulfilled Nicholas Alexander Hayes @alienbuddhapress Message me for an advanced copy. #fiction #dystopianbooks #chicagolit #fabulist #surrealistfiction #irrealfiction #queerlit

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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 18/04/2024

"Reading this book feels like an intimacy ... It is like opening a young man’s journal. A journal in which the youth is still trying to negotiate themselves through the inchoateness of adolescence." @brokenzipper.bsky.social reviews All Out in the Open by Charalampos Tzanakis

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Review: All Out in the Open by Charalampos Tzanakis

About twenty years ago, I stole a translation of Jean Cocteau’s The White Book because the owner was homophobic. I suppose I believe (or at least hope) books find the right readers.

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

“There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled.” - H. P. Lovecraft No Wish Unfulfilled Nicholas Alexander Hayes Release: June 15, 2024 dm me for review copies #fiction #queerlit #fabulism #surrealist #disaster #dystopia

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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 22/03/2024

The Mouse and the Motorcycle, The Book with the Hole, Time’s Arrow, The Museum of Love, The Baudelaire Fractal, and more. James Nulick, #author of the forthcoming Plastic Soul, talks about the nine types of books that have had an impact on his life and writing.

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Nine Books About Your Life: James Nulick

In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. In this installment, we speak with James Nulick, author of the fo...

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

I have a poem about Divine and Lobstora in the ever excellent and transgressive scab magazine #divine #multiplemaniacs #johnwaters #experimentalpoetry #chicagolit #queerliterature scabmag.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/scab...

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 13/03/2024

Aquarius - Giant red mysid (Gnathophausia ingens) Enigmatic and secretive; knows how to keep it bright, red, and real in the light, while also fading into darkness of the deep.

An “Aquarius” graphic with text that reads, “Giant red mysid (Gnathophausia ingens) Enigmatic and secretive; knows how to keep it bright, red, and real in the light, while also fading into darkness of the deep.” In the center of the graphic is a cutout image of a giant red mysid swimming. It has a very pointed, tiny head with a massive plate covering it, two tiny red eyes, and a thin tail. Its entire body is a shiny candy-red.

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

a rainy day- perfect time to read my chapbook Buttered Hair - poetry inspired by cowards of ragnarok and other apocalypses. ghostcitypress.com/2022-summer-... #poetry #poetrycommunity #ghostcity #nicholasalexanderhayes

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

so in my notes on an essay I accidentally wrote “learnerd” instead of “learners”. Perhaps my subconscious is showing.

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Nicholas Alexander Hayes @brokenzipper.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

I have new #poetry at Sulfur, including a #poem featuring Klaus Nomi & Jobriath. sulfur-surrealist-jungle.com/2024/02/24/p... #surrealistpoetry #poetrycommunity #chicagolit

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