Alternate Names for My Children by Nikki Wallschlaeger

Alternate Names for My Children by Nikki Wallschlaeger

1. baby bean

2. baby pie

3. pretty baby

4. baby fish

5. baby love

6. bean pie

7. bean sprout

8. little bean

9. bean baby

10. bean noodle

11. sprout fish

12. sprout sandwich

13. little sprout

14. sprout pie

15. sproutling

16. tiny tuna

17. turkey noodle sandwich

18. angel fish

19. beautiful angel

20. sunshine


Nikki Wallschlaeger’s work has been featured in the Nation, Brick, American Poetry Review, Witness, Kenyon Review, POETRY, and others. She is the author of the full-length collections Houses (Horseless Press 2015) and Crawlspace (Bloof 2017) as well as the graphic book I Hate Telling You How I Really Feel (2019) from Bloof Books. She is also the author of an artist book called “Operation USA” through the Baltimore based book arts group Container, a project acquired by Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee. Her third collection, Waterbaby, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2021.


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