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Cole's Words
Nicholas (Cole) Barnes is a poet living in Portland, Oregon.
His debut chapbook, Restland, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2025.
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Published Poems
"Brook"
"Lake Poem"
"Lithia #4"
"Poem at Five"
BEATIFIC / Spring 2021 / Volume 1 / Issue 2
"Waterspout"
"Susan"
Something Involving A Mailbox! / Issue 8
"Green Flash"
Bridge: The Bluffton University Literary Journal / Spring 2022
"better med"
"Dolores"
Barzakh / Winter 2022 / Issue 14
"latrans"
Mortal Mag
"cosmic filaments are like Earthly oceans:"
"emery bored"
Platform Review / Winter 2022
"Grave"
Vermilion
"lament"
The Bluebird Word
"Toy"
Vermilion
"au revoir"
Scapegoat Review / Fall 2022
"rambling drive"
300 Days of Sun / Volume 2 / Issue 3
"dearly departed"
"pier"
"bunny"
Literary Veganism
"armistice"
Mixed Mag
"river rat"
Clementine Unbound
"Highway 62"
"bullpen"
"bohemia"
Juste Milieu
"james john"
Hive Avenue Literary Journal / Volume 5
"A child said 'What is the grass?'"
"jove"
Divot: A Journal of Poetry / Issue 3
"laute"
Primeval Monster
"downtown"
Untenured
"s.o.s."
Open Minds Quarterly / Volume 24 / Issue 2
"naomi is"
Bluepepper
"Little Cole"
oddball magazine
"paradise lost"
Mobius: The Journal of Social Change
"n.y.e."
"ethanol"
"fume-fire"
Hearth & Coffin Literary Journal / Volume 2 / Issue 2
"Levi's Stadium"
Vermilion
"beach street"
NonBinary Review / Issue 29
"columbia ave"
New Feathers Anthology
"Aqua"
Unstamatic
"Please Don't Bury Me"
Rabble Review / Number 4
"Clima mortis"
SHIFT: A Publication of MTSU Write / Volume 5
"Sailor"
Quibble / Issue 4
"stacy, 2:30 a.m."
Querencia Press / Autumn 2022
"awaken"
Spit Poet Zine / Volume 12
"don't take my word for it [bad advice]"
trampset
"vermont poem [pluviophile]"
Eclectica Magazine
"eat me"
Marrow Magazine
"8th grade funeral"
"tipple"
"amen"
The Phoenix / Issue 64
"wild years"
"fairy tale"
BRUISER
"Crazy Diamond"
Unstamatic
"buck shot"
"yolanda"
"flambé"
Bear Creek Gazette
"until next time, buddy"
Sage Cigarettes
"lan su gardens"
The Cloudscent Journal / Issue 2
"Nothing"
"Lullaby"
Changing Skies / Volume 2
"gone fishing"
"sad"
"poet kills bird"
"acer"
"everyone you know someday will die"
The Ana
"shyness can stop you"
The Headlight Review
"meghan's good year"
Devastation Baby
"Delta"
Brimstone & Venus Literary
"i found you on page 60"
Hot Pot Magazine / Issue 1
"gaggle"
Chinchilla Lit / Issue 2
"put a laurel wreath around my neck"
Roi Fainéant Press
"static"
"damaged parts, no warranty"
"maison de rêve"
Misfit Magazine / Issue 36
"ruth's black eye shines brighter than any streetlight in the city"
Revolver Lit Mag
"ashes"
Progenitor Art & Literary Journal / Volume 58
"you are"
BULLSHIT LIT / Anthology 02
"oberon's"
Compass Rose Literary Journal
"octopus"
Hearth & Coffin Literary Journal / Volume 3 / Issue 1
"raindrops"
Rathalla Review / Spring 2023
"12:13 am"
Salmon Creek Journal / Issue 24
"june watches ballgames in heaven"
Pamplemousse / Spring 2023
"chico"
miniskirt magazine / Issue 20
"i wrote your name at the top of the neues rathaus"
Fish Barrel Review / Issue 6
"kumbaya"
"thursday odyssey"
Crab Apple Literary / Volume 1 / Issue 2
"three caps, three stems"
Brushfire Literature and Arts Journal / Edition 75 / Volume 2
"bloody town"
"charon's obol"
The Parliament Literary Journal / Issue 10
"joan of arc & michelangelo"
Tap into Poetry / Issue 4
"don't drop out [a link wray 45]"
New Note Poetry / Summer 2023
"a sudden shift in glasnost"
RockPaperPoem / Issue 6
"draft #1 looked like pennsylvania"
"that'd be nice"
"dying unicorn"
Juste Literary
"greener pastures"
Hot Pot Magazine / Issue 7
"now i know why tom & huck staged their own funerals"
Gold Man Review / Issue 13
"glacier"
"roll on tanner creek"
"11.6 pounds"
"if i had a milwaukee vibrator"
O:JA&L; Open: Journal of Arts & Letters
"oakland 2011"
Meniscus / Volume 11 / Issue 2
"idaho"
Panoply / Issue 25
"nature boy"
Juked
"we held hands"
Eclectica Magazine / Volume 27 / Number 4
"j. dean boys"
"their souls could've lifted so high"
BRUISER
"tout à moi"
The Spotlong Review / Issue IX
"painting hands"
Cola Literary Review / Volume 3
"attn: mission princess"
Beaver Magazine / Issue 10
"too much to ask"
"private beauty"
Does It Have Pockets
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"corpse flower"
Quarter After Eight / Issue 31
"unfinished business"
3Elements Review / Issue 44
"burn blue"
Bodega Magazine / Issue 144
"typo"
Ignatian Literary Magazine / Volume 37 / Issue 1
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"the ripples'll hold me like down pillows"
Wasteland Review
"something that happens in our eyes"
"fly again"
elsewhere / Issue 24
"last cigarette"
HAD
"i've never seen the northern lights" [forthcoming]
Prime Number Magazine
"the carousel saddle"
Gone Lawn / Issue 59
"washed out"
Redivider / 22.2
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"let it kick in the hinges"
Little Patuxent Review / Issue 38
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"sun's coming up"
Baltimore Review / Spring 2025
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"barber chair"
Midway Journal / Volume 19 / Issue 3
"where does this absence lead" [forthcoming]
Crab Creek Review
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