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
Not Sleeping in Newark - Nicole Yurcaba
Nicole Yurcaba (Нікола Юрцаба) is a Ukrainian American of Hutsul/Lemko origin. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Appalachian Heritage, Atlanta Review, Seneca Review, New Eastern Europe, Euromaidan Press, Chytomo, and The New Voice of Ukraine. Nicole holds an MFA in Writing from Lindenwood University, teaches poetry workshops for Southern New Hampshire University, and is the Humanities Coordinator at Blue Ridge Community and Technical College. She also serves as a guest book reviewer for Sage Cigarettes, Tupelo Quarterly, Colorado Review, and Southern Review of Books. Her poetry collection, The Pale Goth, is available from Alien Buddha Press.
