The Comfortable In-Between is Eric Nixon's latest collection of poetry, marking the 15th installment on his annual series. This 2024 volume offers readers a unique, chronological journey through 287 poems, each acting as a window into the poet's evolving personal thoughts and observances. Like fragments of a personal journal, Nixon's verses explore the unnoticed beauty in everyday life, the complexities of modern existence, the sorrow of loss, and the quiet joy of living.
You Are A Poet is a guided poetry journal that encourages you to discover the poet within. By supplying fun prompts that will spark your creativity, you will be motivated to write poems in different styles, fresh formats, and about interesting subjects. Most poems can be completed in just a few minutes a day, offering you the chance to build your writer muscles and set you up to develop a rewarding poetry practice. Fun and engaging for the whole family. Everyone is a poet, but most importantly, you are a poet.
My new novel, 2492: Attack Of The Ancient Cyborg, is AVAILABLE NOW!
About the book
Bryn Struse has a lot to worry about.
The orphaned daughter of humanity-saving inventors will soon turn eighteen and inherit the largest company in the Solar Union’s history. Getting to that day will involve her uncovering evidence surrounding her parents’ disappearance, avoiding mobsters intent on kidnapping her, and surviving a 200-year-old cyborg hell-bent on killing her.
With the help of her best friend, Amory, Bryn traverses the dangerous chessboard of trouble and intrigue, which takes place in the near-utopian, space-based setting of the year 2492.
I have published two novels:
2492: Attack Of The Ancient Cyborg
A science fiction novel set in the utopian future of 2492.
Emily Dickinson, Superhero - Vol. 1
A historical fiction novel set in the 1850s during the dawn of superheroes.
And three short stories:
Incident On The Hennepin – a short story set in 2492.
Plenty Of Time – a short story about a time machine.
Retribution On A Jetpack – a short story telling the back story of a pivotal scene in 2492: Attack Of The Ancient Cyborg.
I have published a total of seventeen books; fourteen poetry collections, a guided poetry journal, two novels, and three short stories.
The Comfortable In-Between - 2024 poetry collection
When Time Was Stable - 2023 poetry collection
Indestructible - 2022 poetry collection
The Length Of A Second - 2021 poetry collection
The Year That Aged Us - 2020 poetry collection
You Are A Poet- guided poetry journal
The Little Hierophant - 2019 poetry collection
Equidistant- 2018 poetry collection
The Cupcake - 2017 poetry collection
2492: Attack Of The Ancient Cyborg – science fiction novel
The Ocean Above – 2016 poetry collection.
Cascadia’s Fault – 2015 poetry collection.
The Taborist– 2014 poetry collection.
The Entire Universe – 2013 poetry collection.
Trying Not To Blink – 2012 poetry collection.
Lost In Thought – poetry collection.
Emily Dickinson – Superhero: Vol. 1 – historical fiction novel.
Incident On The Hennepin – a short story set in 2492.
Plenty Of Time – short story.
Retribution On A Jetpack – a short story telling the back story of a pivotal scene in 2492: Attack Of The Ancient Cyborg.
Anything But Dreams – poetry collection.
I tend to write a decent amount of poems – enough each year to publish a collection. To date, I have written nearly 2,500 poems spread across my fifteen books.
My poetry has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s program, The Writer’s Almanac, seven times: “Riding The Red Line,” in 2011 and again in 2018 (it begins at 4:50), “Peak Summer,” in 2019 (it begins at 3:34), “The Momentum Of Existence,” in 2019 (beginning at 4:00), “Reinvention,” in 2019 (beginning at 3:14), “Trying To Remember,” in 2021, and “Riding The Red Line” again in 2022.
My poetry collections:
The Comfortable In-Between - 2024 poetry collection
When Time Was Stable - 2023 poetry collection
Indestructible - 2022 poetry collection
The Length Of A Second - 2021 poetry collection
The Year That Aged Us - 2020 poetry collection
The Little Hierophant - 2019 poetry collection
Equidistant - 2018 poetry collection
The Cupcake - 2017 poetry collection
The Ocean Above - 2016 poetry collection
Cascadia's Fault - 2015 poetry collection
The Taborist - 2014 poetry collection
The Entire Universe - 2013 poetry collection
Trying Not To Blink - 2012 poetry collection
Lost In Thought - poetry collection
Anything But Dreams - poetry collection
Official bio:
Eric Nixon is a poet and author who has written fifteen collections of poetry, a guided poetry journal, several short stories, and two novels. His poetry has been featured on The Writer’s Almanac seven times. Eric lives with his author wife, Kari Chapin, in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts.
Real bio:
Hello! I’m Eric Nixon. I was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts and grew up smack dab in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts in a little town called Dalton (where all paper for US currency comes from). I spent my youth reading piles of books, listening to music, and being active in Scouting. I wrote my first short story called, “A Day In The Year 2492” when I was 13, which became the basis for my 2492 science fiction series.
I went to college at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where I wrote my first poems, and eventually majored in Hotel Management. After college, I spent the ensuing 20+ years managing hotels all over the United States and living in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Massachusetts again, New Hampshire again, Alabama, Massachusetts (again), Vermont, Oregon, Illinois, Massachusetts (again? Really? What the heck?), Washington, and (sigh) Massachusetts.
I spend my free time writing lots of poetry, and barely working on my novels - because they are a LOT harder to write. I have managed to publish a poetry collection every year since 2012, and my fifteen collections contain nearly 2,500 poems, so that’s pretty good.
As far as my novels go, I am currently (sorta) working on three books of varying genres. The book I’m closest to finishing is the sequel to 2492: Attack Of The Ancient Cyborg, called 2493: The Death Of Bryn Struse, as well as a a book of an art photography project I spent two years working on.
When I’m not working, and not writing, I like to travel, make art, and to take pictures. If you want to see pictures of sunsets, flowers, and random arty things, I’m (barely) on Instagram @ericnixon.
Online, I can be found on:
@ericnixon
@ericnixon (note: I never tweet)
@EmilyDSuperhero (Emily Dickinson, Superhero tweets occasionally)
ericnixonauthor at gmail
