Into the Bowels is about the embarrassment of riches. These thin, fidgety poems, studded with pearls and peaches, arsonists and party animals, survey the gap between wanting and getting.

Into the Bowels, Nikki Dasos

July, 2026

Nikki Dasos has had poetry published (under the pen name Nic Leigh) in Unsaid, Diagram, Gobbet, Juked, Requited, The Collagist, Vestiges, and the Atticus Review. Her previous roles include contributing editor at Territory, fiction reader at Guernica, and production editor at Numéro Cinq. nikkidasos.com.