A Human Saloon

Dr. R. Nikolas Macioci earned a PhD from The Ohio

State University and taught English, Writer's Seminar

(a course he created for select students), and Drama in

Columbus City Schools. OCTELA, the Ohio Council of

Teachers of English, awarded Nik Macioci best secondary

English teacher in the state of Ohio.

He won First Place in the l987 National Writer's Union

Poetry Competition judged by Denise Levertov, First

Place in The Baudelaire Award Competition sponsored by

The World Order of Narrative and Formalist Poets (1989).

Second Place in Zone 3's first annual Rainmaker Awards,

judged by Howard Nemerov (1989), and Second Place in

the Writer's Digest annual competition, Judged by Diane

Wakoski (1991).

Nik is the author of two chapbooks, Cafes of Childhood, and

Greatest Hits, as well as four books: Cafes of Childhood

(the original chapbook with additional poems), Why

Dance?, Necessary Windows, and Mother Goosed. Forth-

coming are Occasional Heaven and A Human Saloon.

His book, Cafes of Childhood was submitted for the

Pulitzer Prize. Critics and judges called Cafes of

Childhood a "beautifully harrowing account of child

abuse, but not "sentimental" or self-pitying" an "amazing

book," and "a single unified whole." In addition, Nik's

work has been published in more than two hundred

magazines here and abroad. Most recently, Macioci has

published in The Society of Classical Poets journal, Clark

Street Review, Blue Unicorn, and Chiron Review. He is a

member of Bistro poets critique group.