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James B. Nicola’s latest of seven full-length poetry collections (2014-22) are Fires of Heaven: Poems of Faith and Sense and Turns & Twists. His nonfiction book Playing the Audience won a Choice award. He has received a Dana Literary Award; two Willow Review awards; Storyteller’s People’s Choice award; plus one Best of Net, one Rhysling, and eight Pushcart nominations—for which he feels stunned and grateful.