Episode 58: Nicholas Molbert (Of Nostalgia and Work, Southern Boyhood, and Storm Season on the Gulf Coast)

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Nicholas Molbert, author of Alters of Spine and Fracture (NUP, 2024)

Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and Elsewhere

Read: “Men Working Above: demolition” and “Parable of Baiting” (UCity Review)

Purchase: Altars of Spine and Fraction (Northwestern University Press, 2024)

Nicholas Molbert: Born and raised on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, Nicholas lives in Los Angeles. He is the author of Altars of Spine and Fraction (Northwestern University Press, 2024) and two poetry chapbooks from Foundlings Press: Goodness Gracious (2019) and Cocodrie Elegy (2024). You can find his work in places like The Cincinnati Review, The Greensboro Review, Mississippi Review, and Missouri Review among others. He holds a PhD from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.”

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