Nick Powers
Poet, Novelist
Dr. Nicholas Powers is a jazz poet and novelist, reporter and literature professor. He covers literature, psychedelic therapy, politics, and environmental disasters. He has reported from crises from 9/11 New York, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the Sean Bell anti-police brutality protests, the Darfur genocide and earthquake struck Haiti. Also, Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, Black Lives Matters marches and radical festivals like Burning Man. He has hosted poetry slams at the Nuyorican Cafe and writing workshops at MOCA art museum and now jazz poetry at Ornithology Cafe in Brooklyn.
His writings have appeared in Truth Out, the Village Voice, the Indypendent, Business Insider and Chacruna. He has been interviewed by the New York Times, Naropa University and Democratic Socialist of America. Black Psychedelic Revolution is his fifth book and first with North Atlantic Books. His dissertation, The Undertow of Reason: Redefining the Sublime Through the Middle Passage was published by the Graduate Center. His poetry book, Theater of War and literary journalism, The Ground Below Zero: 9/11 to Burning Man, New Orleans to Darfur, Haiti to Occupy Wall Street were published by Upset Press. Along with a political vampire novel, Thirst.
Recently, he is exploring the role of autobiography and psychedelics to liberate people from intergenerational trauma. Also, he is turning to literature to unearth visions of utopia in order to resist the mass marketing of dystopia. Art is where the future begins.
TOPICS: Writing, Poetry