Angelo Nikolopoulos
Angelo Nikolopoulos is an American poet.
Nikolopoulos's first book of poems,, was published by Alice James Books in April 2013 and was a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Poetry. His second book of poetry, Pleasure, is forthcoming from Four Way Books.
His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, Boston Review, Fence, Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Quarterly, Poetry Society of America, Tin House, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere.Biography
Nikolopoulos received a BA from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in Creative Writing and Literature from New York University, where he studied with the poet Sharon Olds. He credits his decision to become a poet to finding a tattered copy of Olds's first book of poetry, Satan Says, in a taxi in San Francisco as a teenager.
He is the founder and host of The White Swallow Reading Series at the iconic Cornelia Street Cafe in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Since 2013, the series has featured writers Christopher Bram, Michael Cunningham, Michael Dickman, Alex Dimitrov, Mark Doty, Marie Howe, A.M. Homes, Wayne Koestenbaum, Timothy Liu, Dorothea Lasky, Paul Legault, Susanna Moore, Eileen Myles, Brenda Shaughnessy, Gerald Stern, Justin Torres, Jean Valentine, Susan Wheeler, and Edmund White.
He teaches at New York University and Rutgers University, is the Program Administrator for the Creative Writing Program at New York University, and lives in New York City.Works
Books
- . Alice James Books. April 2013.
- . Four Way Books. Spring 2022.
Selected poems
- . The Awl. October 2010.
- . Boston Review. May 2011.
- . Boxcar Poetry Review. May 2009.
- . The Collagist. January 2012.
- . Cortland Review. February 2012.
- The Journal. February 2012.
- . Lambda Literary. December 2010.
- . Painted Bride Quarterly. April 2013.
- . Poetry Society of America. August 2013.
- . TriQuarterly. July 2013.
Poems in anthologies
- . Best American Poetry 2012. August 2012.
- . Best New Poets 2011. January 2012.
- . Divining Divas. February 2012.
- . Collective Brightness. May 2011.
Awards and honors
- , 2015.
- Lambda Literary Foundation Award Finalist for Poetry, 2014.
- MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 2013.
- ; Alice James Books, 2011.
- “Discovery”/Boston Review Prize for Poetry, 2011.
- Fellowship, 2010.