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.