MY NEW BOOK ABRAZO IS HERE!
My new book Abrazo is available for sale, exclusively right here through me. This is a poetic photo essay about walking through the streets of different cities during one of the hardest years of my life. I became interested in taking photos of doors and walls as a way of grounding myself, and I wrote street poetry on top of them. I assembled that material into one long poem with beautiful full color photography, and it is called Abrazo, which is the Spanish word for “hug.”
2026 Writing WORKSHOPS
NEXT Workshop startS Tuesday, June 30th
You can sign up for any one unit or join for the whole year. Each six week unit is a great container for generating new writing, gaining new tools, and meeting a group of other writers doing the same thing. I’ve seen so many important friendships and collaborations form in these workshops, and a mountain of incredible writing.
These classes focus on everything from reawakening your creativity after a long dormancy all the way through submitting for publication and imagining the structure of your own book.
NICK Jaina
Nick Jaina is a musician and author originally from Sacramento who has lived in Portland, New York, and New Orleans. He was an Oregon Book Award finalist in 2015 for his memoir Get It While You Can, which is now in its third printing.. His writing has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, McSweeney's Quarterly and the journal Oregon Humanities. He has released many wonderful albums under his own name, including 2025’s The Monster Mash. He co-founded and was music director for a ballet company in New York City called Satellite that involved dancers from Juilliard and the New York City Ballet and performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, garnering praise from The New York Times. He has composed scores for feature films and documentaries, including All Sorts, Cement Suitcase, and Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire.