The Porch (As Sanctuary)

  • Finalist for the the 2018 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Prize

  • A YesYes Books Blue Note Edition Chapbook

  • 2020 Eric Hoffer Prize Honorable Mention

Cover art: Ceaux the artist

“These poems made me an instant fan. They make me excited to write, excited to read, excited to follow Nichelle’s work for the rest of my days.”
— Danez Smith in NYLON Mag, "10 BLACK POETS SHARE THEIR FAVORITE PIECES OF POETRY"

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“[The Porch] is a place of connection, among family but also strangers, and ritual. In Nichelle’s hands, though the porch is a place of exclusion at the hands of “Mouth Almighty,” it is also a place of ‘communion better/than a sliver of bread on an empty stomach’ where it’s warm because ‘them storms been weathered already.’” —GLASS POETRY REVIEW

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