Most Recent: May 25, 2016
Nicelle Davis is a California poet, collaborator, and performance artist who walks the desert with her son J.J. in search of owl pellets and rattlesnake skins. Her two most recent collections are The Walled Wife (Red Hen Press) and In the Circus of You (Rose Metal Press). The author of two other books of poetry, Becoming Judas (Red Hen Press) and Circe (Lowbrow Press). Her poetry film collaborations with Cheryl Gross have been shown across the world. She is currently working on the manuscript / play, On the Island of Caliban, which was recently workshopped by The Industrial Players. She has taught poetry at Youth for Positive Change, an organization that promotes success for youth in secondary schools, MHA, Volunteers of America in their Homeless Youth Center, and with Red Hen’s WITS program.