Alfred Nicol’s most recent full length collection of poetry is Animal Psalms (Able Muse Press, 2016). He has published two other collections, Elegy for Everyone (Prospero’s World Press, 2010) and Winter Light (University of Evansville Press, 2004), winner of the 2004 Richard Wilbur Award. He has collaborated with Rhina P. Espaillat and artist Kate Sullivan to create the chapbook Brief Accident of Light (Kelsay Books, 2019); and with his sister, the artist Elise Nicol, to create Second Hand Second Mind (Blurb, 2011). Nicol also edited The Powow River Anthology (Ocean Press, 2006). His poems have been anthologized in Contemporary Poetry of New England (Robert Pack and Jay Parini, editors) and in Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets (William Baer, editor), and have appeared in Poetry, Commonweal, The New England Review, The Dark Horse, First Things and The Formalist.  His new book, Elegy for Everyone, was chosen to receive the Anita Dorn Memorial Award, and was published in 2010.

Author page: https://www.alfrednicol.com/

Books

One Hundred Visions of War ( Wiseblood Books, 2022) by Julian Vocance, translated by Alfred Nicol
Brief Accident of Light (Kelsay Books, 2019)
Animal Psalms (Able Muse Press, 2016)
Second Hand Second Mind (2011)- an art book of photographs by Elise Nicol with poems by Alfred Nicol 
Elegy for Everyone (Prospero’s World Press, 2009; Winner of the Anita Dorn Memorial Poetry Prize, 2007)
Winter Light (University of Evansville Press, 2004; winner of the Richard Wilbur Award, 2004)

Anthologies 

The Powow River Poets Anthology II (Able Muse Press, 2021)
The Powow River Anthology (Ocean Publishing, 2006; editor)
Contemporary Poetry of New England (Middlebury College Press, 2002)

Poetry Online 

“Talking All Night” First Things
“The Path” Plough Quarterly
The Hypertexts
“New Year” on Verse Daily
“Against Beauty” in The Flea

Honors

The Willis Barnstone Poetry Award, 2015
The Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award, 2013
The Anita Dorn Memorial Prize, 2007
The Daniel Varoujan Award, New England Poetry Club, 2006
First Prize, Newburyport Art Association Poetry Contest 2005
Firman Houghton Award New England Poetry Club 2005
The Richard Wilbur Award, 2004
First Prize, Newburyport Art Association Poetry Contest 2003
The Glascock Poetry Prize, 1976
The Academy of American Poets Prize at Dartmouth College, 1976

Other

Melopoeia CD recorded with Rhina Espaillat & classical guitarist John Tavano
Interview - Cervena Barva Press