Released 22 May 2026 // Poetry Pamphlet // 56 pages
 
'Nicole Yurcaba refuses to grieve one thing at a time. Rammstein and bomb threats, Depeche Mode and missile alerts, a lover's name typed into a password field and a homeland disappearing into rubble, the pop culture flotsam of an intimate life collides relentlessly with the larger devastation of war, and neither yields to the other. These poems hold it all at once: the personal and the geopolitical, the sensuous and the catastrophic, the mundane and the unbearable. The result is a collection of radical simultaneity, insisting that loss, like love, does not wait its turn.'
 
—Renee Nicholson
 
'Not Sleeping in Newark is Nicole Yurcaba’s highly vulnerable poetry of grief sorting, both fragmentary and raw, and always emotionally resonant. The multivalent title settles and unsettles throughout the collection as the loss of hope, dream, and a significant other to the devastation of mental illness becomes a kaleidoscope-cum-window into a shredded heart.'
 
— Stan Galloway